Archive for January, 2010
Sustainable Standards for Conferences and Events – Absolute Chaos
January 28th, 2010
At least 10 standardised ways of measuring the sustainability of a conference event or meeting, could things be more chaotic.
With ISO 20121 being mooted as the new international standard for sustainable events, sitting atop of the domestic standard of ISO 14001, then we have BSI 8901 as a further refinement. Sitting beneath these are a whole host of individual UK government supported measures, Green Tourism Scheme, Green Mark, Hospitality climates etc. Then yet further down the rung you have a series of single issue government schemes run by the various agencies i.e. Envirowise, Carbon Trust, WRAP etc etc.
The cost in terms of time to administer all of this is at tenable for even the largest organisations (I guess that why not one of them has bothered to sign up to them all) The cost to the government to administer this edifice must be staggering.
That’s why so many venues have resorted to their devices. Leading the pack is Cavendish Conference Venues London’s leading supplier of conference and meeting rooms. Who recently announced that they have achieved landfill neutral status, something which has been verified by their recent victory in winning the Visit London 2009/2010.
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Venue of Choice for Social Media events ?
January 27th, 2010
Cavendish Conference Venues Mayfair Conference Centre seems to fast be becoming the venue of choice for the Social Networking community. On the 17th Feb we are hosting the Data Matters Conference organized by the Market Research Society. Our combination of fantastic meeting rooms, world class data infrastructure, extreme Central Location and unbeatable service have all helped put us in this position.
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America Square Conference Centre, in the Cloud ?
January 23rd, 2010
America Square Conference Centre in the City of London EC3 is again demonstrating its market leading Tec credentials by hosting cloud camp 2010.
CloudCamp is a conference where adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. This CloudCamp Mixer at Poweredbycloud, a compressed CloudCamp, gives you the opportunity to join London’s cloud community, hear how cloud technology is being used to solve business problems, get your cloud questions answered and network with other cloud enthusiasts. The short keynote talk by Joe Baguley, European CTO at Quest Software and cloud proponent is “Pragmatic use of cloud computing in 2010″, As to the best of our knowledge the only venue with two completely independent sets of high capacity lines (as opposed to different carriers simply running on the BT infrastructure) we believe we are ahead of the crowd or cloud in our ability to offer city conference and meeting rooms to technology heavy clients.
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Conferences & Accreditation – How can the green get greener?
January 22nd, 2010
There are as we all know a mass of accreditation paths ISO 14001, BS 8901, The Green Tourism scheme, hospitality climates, Green Mark etc etc. While not massively expensive in themselves all of them are immensely time consumptive. We at Cavendish Conference Venues have tried to cut through this by offering a simple transparent target namely to be Landfill neutral We recognise that if every conference venue simply invented their own standard it would be impossible to compare one venue with another. So we at Cavendish Conference Venues i.e. Mayfair Conference Centre, The Cavendish Conference Centre, America Square Conference Centre, Hallam Conference Centre and the ICO Conference Centre are now committing to introduce BS 8901 across the whole group.
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Cavendish Conference Venus – Proud to announce point to point 5 person Skype video-conferencing
January 21st, 2010
In an attempt to lead boldly and bravely from the front we at the Cavendish Conference Centre are offering free point to point 5 person webcasting and video conferencing over Skype to our customers. Don’t let the snow beat you enjoy the sun in your own back yard and take advantage of this fantastic offer.
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Finally a use for Google Wave
January 20th, 2010
We are still playing around with the Google Wave, how exactly we could / should we introduce this into the conferencing arena. What’s for sure is that it is much more than a text-messaging forum, along the lines of the infamous live twitter streams we have used so often at our Cavendish Conference Centre over the last year. Maybe the little wigit introduced by Ribbit enabling teleconferencing in the wave points in to right direction. What this means is that for the first time real time voice and text can be incorporated into the wave and on into some form of presentation for the first time. Combine this with a variety of high capacity lines running over a range of networks and its clear PowerPoint might be the stuff of history, I guess the empire will strike back.
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