The Power of Experience

COVID-19 UPDATE

During these extraordinary times, we are grateful to have our employees, customers, partners, families and friends. We are grateful for this earth, nature, human kindness, adaptability and the hope for the future. Our hearts go out to all those suffering from the COVID-19 virus, be that by falling ill, fearing financial disaster, living with loneliness, losing a loved one, stuggling with depression or any of the many impacts this is having on our world.

For the events and hospitality industry, this has been particularly crippling. We bring people together. We create shared live experiences. We gather. We can’t do that, not right now. So we adapt, we find other ways of creating experiences. We recently completed Oktane20 LIVE, a virtual conference that shifted from a live event to virtual in a matter of weeks. Content was directed and recorded virtually, sponsors had virtual booths, registration sky-rocketed and the feedback was great. Virtual is the world we are going to be living in for the foreseeable future.

With that said, we believe in the future of the events industry. People want to be with people. We want to evolve and grow together. When we get through this, we will be stronger and better with events that keep people safe while delivering connectivity like never before.