FAQ – FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
General topics
What is a Hybrid Event?
A hybrid event is an event that takes place in a physical location, but an interactive live audience also participates online.
What is the difference between a traditional event with streaming and a hybrid event?
A traditional event with streaming involves the digital distribution of content. The hybrid event, on the other hand, involves live interaction of online participants who follow the live broadcast. The format is similar to television programs, which are characterized by episodes, instead of concentrating all activities in parallel (conferences, workshops, visits to stands, meetings…).
What are the advantages of a hybrid event compared to a traditional event?
A hybrid event multiplies the number of participants, allows the participation of international guests, reduces the participation costs of speakers and the audience and increases the ROI.
Why is a traditional physical event (short tail) inefficient compared to a hybrid one (long tail)?
In an on-site event, all activities are concentrated in one or two days. Attendees can’t join all the parallel conferences and/or meetings, the participation costs of sponsors and exhibitors are higher, the possibility of valuable meetings during the event is less effective.
What is the different between "Light Hybrid" and "Full Hybrid"?
The “Light” mode has speakers and moderators present in physical places together with a small and selected audience, while most of the participants attend remotely. The “Full Hybrid” instead involves face-to-face exhibition activities and networking.
How can a hybrid event help reach new overseas customers?
The possibility of having participants connected anywhere allows to find additional content of interest and attract additional participants especially from foreign countries.
How does a hybrid event improve ROI?
Getting the contacts registered to a specific session in which you delivered the speech, getting twice the contacts compared to the in-presence only format, lower rates, are factors that lead to a much higher ROI. Furthermore, in “hybrid” events companies can decide in time whether to attend physically and / or digitally and therefore the related level of economic investment.
Why is a hybrid event efficient at turning simple leads into interested leads?
Hybrid Events offer a path specifically designed to gather both physical and virtual visitors (reach), transform them into profiled contacts (leads) to be involved in meeting opportunities such as matchmaking and thematic groups (close-up meetings), where companies have the opportunity to meet them directly.
Networking & Matchmaking
Networking is an important reason to participate: what do hybrid events offer?
Hybrid events allow you to organize digital matchmaking (one-2-one meeting, close-up meeting, open house) after the conference sessions, to make the activity more efficient and effective.
Why do hybrid events deliver more results in in terms of matchmaking and in creating one-2-one business meetings?
Because contacts and leads are generated at the beginning of the timeframe(during main sessions, keynotes, breakout sessions, roundtables, etc.). Subsequently the matching and networking activities are organized remotely with the support of professionl tools.
Innovability’s Hybrid Events: format & operating methods
The hybrid format will be dropped once the pandemic will be completely over?
No. Innovability believes that the physical experience will remain irreplaceable, but the union of these two dimensions represents the present and the future; allowing you to benefit from both.
What does it means that the Hybrid event allows the distribution of initiatives over an extended period of time?
Means that keynotes, conference sessions, matchmaking and networking activities take place over a period of 6 – 8 weeks.
What does it means extending the event beyond geographic restrictions?
Whether it’s due to conflicting schedules, cost, or travel limitations, there are lots of people who would love to engage with you the event, but simply cannot attend. With hybrid event geography is no longer an impediment.
How can you ensure that the hybrid event will not have an "homemade" image, as happened for many webinars seen during the lockdown?
We have qualified workers to offer participants a unique audio-video experience. The conference sessions are professional directed, both on-site and online, to give participants a real “TV” experience.
Which experience Innovability has in creating and organizing B2B events?
Innovability has 20 years of experience in organizing trade fairs, conferences & expo, workshops, meetings, matching, live experiences, etc. that have seen hundreds of exclusively B2B events with tens of thousands of professional attendees.
What database does Innovability have to support audience promotion and matchmaking activities?
Our database is built over 20 years of production of B2B events on digital transformation, continuously updated and profiled on the various vertical sectors of application of technologies.
How to participate in the Innovability’s Hybrid Events
What is the basic level of participation?
The basic participation level includes a basic online visibility with the following benefits: company logo, company description on the website and on promotional DEMs sent to our contact database and a press release on the event website
Which services can be added to the basic participation?
Activities such as Breakout Speech, Virtual Booth, Talks, Digital round table, Virtual Close-up meeting can be added to the basic participation. This allows you to choose the various services/activities of interest to compose your own “tailor-made package”, paying only for the activities you want to do.
Services can be added even when the event has already started?
Yes. In case of Full Hybrid event those activities can be realized on-site.
Can I choose a "classic" partecipation that includes a speech and booth?
Yes. Breakout speech and Virtual Booth activities can be added to the basic participation.
If I want to organize my workshop or meeting during the event, what support will I get from Innovability?
Innovability offers its support for the creation, organizational management and promotion of the event. Contact us for more information.
Is it possible to use new formats to create custom events?
Yes. Such as an online open house and digital clinic, but also other types of meetings that your imagination can suggest and our expertise can support.