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Many companies launch business conferences in order to promote themselves, help establish their brand and provide networking opportunities for themselves and others.  However, many businesses that look into this option often have to scrap it or postpone it.  This reality is due to the high costs involved with hosting and running events.  Renting a conference location, making deals with local hotels, and hiring temporary staff to work an event all add up to serious costs that not every company can handle.  However, there is now a cool product that allows smaller companies to host virtual business conferences on the Internet.  HyperFair creates virtual conference spaces that professionals can log into in order to view live presentations and chat with other attendees for networking purposes.  Companies can promote networking by hosting events without having to spend money on renting and staffing a physical location.  Businesses that want to use HyperFair to put on virtual events will need a business IT support provider to help them put the appropriate systems in place.  Read more »

A slew of startups have popped up over the past few years that offer technology-based solutions for large events and professional conferences.  BusyEvent, one such startup based out of St. Louis, is trying to set itself apart with a cool product that leverages mobile technology for event organizers.  While many other companies design individual apps for events, costing an event’s host significant amounts of time and money, BusyEvent offers a way for event organizers to create their own mobile apps.  BusyEvent produces, in their own words, an “app that builds apps” for event organizers and marketers.  BusyEvent claims that their mobile application allows their customers to create event-specific apps “in five minutes”.  Organizers can then personalize their event’s app with different styles, themes, layouts and of course, content.  Users can view and edit the apps they make with BusyEvent through the web, on Android or on iPhone.  Anyone who needs help navigating or working through BusyEvent’s features can get help from a mobile tech support provider. Read more »

When your company or organization is holding an event or sponsoring a conference, you want your visitors to engage as much as possible.  Lawrence Coburn is a cool person in technology who wants to help you keep attendees involved at all times by creating special mobile applications for your business’s events.  Coburn founded DoubleDutch in 2010 and since then has been helping companies get a better return on investment for every major social event or conference they hold.  Coburn’s company create apps that aim not only to help visitors get the most out of a company’s events, but also help each company optimize its events as much as possible in the future.  Coburn’s goal is to ensure that each event or conference a business holds provides as much benefit to the business as possible in the long run.  Read more »