![]() ![]() Baltimore Convention Center, working with its in-house production company Projection, rolled out its broadcast studio in late summer, producing programming for the International Association of Exhibition and Events’ CEM Week, held virtually August 24-28.Up to 30 delegates can be accommodated in person. Located above the venue’s main event halls, the studio has a digital backdrop, multiple cameras, and a full sound system and lighting rig. ExCeL London opened its new virtual event studio on October 15 in partnership with production company Anna Valley. ![]() The trend this fall is for convention centers to build out permanent virtual/hybrid meeting studios featuring high-definition broadcasting equipment, high-end lighting, and graphics and video tools. While virtual meetings over the spring and summer were focused on quick transitions from face-to-face, planners now have more time to invest in an event’s production values and to consider hybrid options, armed with a better understanding of how social distancing, masks, and good ventilation can keep small groups safe.Ĭonvention centers not only have relatively open calendars, large spaces available for stage set-ups and social distancing, and production-company relationships in place, they’re also creating broadcast-ready spaces to make the virtual or hybrid experience more turnkey and more professional looking. He showed off the broadcast stage: a semicircle of 20-foot-high plasma screens that he called “one of the most incredible virtual set-ups I’ve ever seen.”Ĭonvention centers like Cox, hard hit by the pandemic in 2020, may have an outsized role to play for virtual and hybrid conferences going forward. Meetology’s Jonathan Bradshaw tweeted a revealing video clip from behind the scenes at the Cox Business Convention Center. Before he spoke at the SeneGence International virtual conference last week in Tulsa, Okla. ![]()
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