We were busy gearing up for the #WeMakeEvents Global Day of Action that took place on the 30th of September 2020 to highlight how the global live events industry urgently needs to get back to work. We’re proud to be partnering with JW Marriott Marquis, one of our amazing venues, to support the day. More ...

Festival City Arena hosts an impressive two-day digital hybrid festival, as Dubai takes its first steps out of lockdown. With Tomorrowland taking its annual festival online this year, Envie Events provided Dubai residents with a spectacular hybrid digital festival, allowing ticketholders to experience virtual performances from a star-studded bill of headliners, combined with a real-life production ...

Encore provides a full technical supply to Wake Up Call, bringing artists including Rita Ora, Disclosure and Rufus Du Sol to the shores of the iconic Palm Jumeirah at the W Dubai – The Palm for the three-day luxe music festival. Previous renditions of the event were held at the W Hotels in Los Angeles, ...

Encore Venue Services, specialists in providing in-venue technical production services to hotels, has added 15,000-lumen Epson laser projectors from local distributor NMK Electronics to its existing rental fleet. The investment was part of upgrading the company’s inventory to a growing line of laser projectors with an additional six units. Aimed at being used in large or small ...

Dubai’s favourite music festival, Party In The Park returned to the lawns of the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre with the likes of Fatboy Slim, Richard Ashcroft and Lighthouse Family, making it a jam-packed day of musical affair organised by DGT Events. Up to the task of handling the sizeable event production was Encore who provided lighting, audio, ...

As the events industry starts to return, it’s becoming clear that hybrid events are going to become part of the new normal. While there are countless tutorials, resources and products that are geared towards making the technical transition easier to understand and execute, one challenge that remains is how to maximize remote audience engagement. Founded ...

A Rise in Hybrid Meetings and Events The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges to the event industry. But, with crisis, often comes innovation. As automobile manufacturers have quickly changed their business model from building cars to building ventilators, the events industry is responding with different ways to use technology to connect organizations and people. ...

Hint: It’s not about the platform Over the last two months (though it certainly feels much longer), our industry has frantically been pivoting live events to virtual event formats. For many, this meant rapidly researching a vast array of streaming providers, web conference solutions, and virtual event platforms. In the process, it’s also meant a ...

Presenting live is challenging enough at the best of times. But these days, you also have to be your own sound engineer, lighting technician and camera operator. For my Professional EDge topic, I wanted to do something practical that can help elevate your virtual meetings skills, all while turning what you have at home into ...

Necessity is the mother of all invention, and our current environment has introduced more challenges into our personal and professional lives than anyone could have predicted.    Be it as a planner, partner, or provider in the live events industry, how do we continue to provide value to our customers in a time when we cannot meet face to face? For ...