Conference Venues
Archive for November, 2007
What's happening at our Central London Conference Venues
Environmental Check List
We are trying to encourage the conference organisers who use us to take more notice of the environmental impact of their events. One initiative we would like to introduce is to send out to all those event planners who use us an Environmental Check List. Â We have drawn up the attached document as a starting point, if anyone has any suggestions as to how this can or should be improved ...
Read moreFinally an event I can understand
Most of the events we host here are esoteric in the extreme; tomorrow for example we have the annual Quant event. Last night was different; an event run by the Royal Television Society www.rts.org.uk was all about the masses of new reality TV shows focusing on how to bring up children. The event developed into a right ding dong with two middle aged female child rearing experts castigating two much ...
Read moreGreen Green Green
We are building up for our Green Mark audit at the end of November. All major waste streams are now actively monitored, recycling systems are in place wherever possible. Energy consumption is falling quite dramatically. We would like to go one stet further; as such we need some other venues to benchmark ourselves against. If anyone knows of any conference venues taking active measures to lighten their environmental footprint please ...
Read moreDelegates just keep getting lost
Arrived this morning, not first thing thank goodness, to find a stream of delegates arriving for a conference, which was not and never had, been at any of our venues. We were hosting a few events; one to do with lifts the other Maritime Pollution etc. The delegates were adamant there was a Pensions Conference being hosted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants at our venue, we searched their website, ...
Read moreHow to Carbon Offset
We already offset the very limited amount of carbon that we cause to be created, that’s the easy part. Now we would like to go one step further and offer a programme whereby we can offset all the CO2 created as a result of delegates / exhibitors etc etc coming to us. Were struggling with the practicalities, on a particular day up to 250 delegates 10 exhibition stands, where do ...
Read moreComputers Computers
We our on the cutting edge of technology, the white heat burns brightly here. Havening signed up for with mimecast recently as a secure spooler of our emails, plus a more sophisticated spam filtering system, I thought I should get some training as to how its other functionalities work. Two hours spent this morning; total additional knowledge zero, all I have is a big fat manual to prove he was ...
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