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Perspectives on how people gather, how events are designed, and what it takes to build something that works.
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What a sustainable event actually looks like (the practice)
Sustainable events require specifics. Where the building sits on an environmental scale. How the food was sourced. Whether the carbon the day produces is being measured or estimated. This is what each of those things actually means in practice.
Designing for attention
There is a particular kind of meeting that nobody admits is happening: the one where most of the room has mentally left, the programme is still running, and everyone is waiting for it to end. It is not always the content’s fault. Often, it is the room’s. This is a harder argument to make than …
Why events go wrong at the handovers
Most events that fall apart do not fall apart because of the content. They fall apart at the transitions. From organiser to venue, from morning to afternoon, from the person who took the brief to the person running the day. These are handover failures.
Five things to ask a venue before you sign
Capacity, day rate, catering menus. These tell you whether a venue can accommodate your event. They do not tell you whether it is the right venue, or whether the people running it will make it work. Here are the five questions that get to what actually matters.
What your impact report actually shows (the proof)
At TOGETHER, every event ends with something most clients have never received before: a clear picture of what the day actually cost the planet. Carbon generated, travel emissions, food footprint. A specific number, tied to a specific event, for a specific group of people.
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