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Hosting Online Events, Exhibitions & Team Building Made Easy

By Design Africa is expanding it’s offline offering to include online event solutions. Welcome to an era of virtual event solutions. It may be business unusual, but

the Show Must Go Online

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How do you engage your clients in this uncertain landscape we find ourselves in? Virtual Eventing puts the power back in your hands. By Design Africa DMC/MICE offers you the backdrop to put on a stellar digital event while keeping the ‘real feel’ of an in person event. We have collaborated with AV and Beyond and the venue Galleria to give you the ‘space’ to pre-record your event so you can maintain your brand persona, giving you virtual wings to fly to newer heights.

We Can Help You

Q: Why do you need a Professional Virtual Events Management Partner?

Virtual events can be simple, like a webinar, or more complex and include multiple speakers, sessions, and entertainment — a similar experience to a conference, exhibition or trade show, just not in person. By Design Africa’s virtual event platform keeps the magic of live events going in a virtual setting. Your attendees will love networking, Q&A, gamification, and more!

You need experts who can offer:

full brand
customisation
next level
networking
increased attendee engagement

As your event management partner, By Design Africa oversees every step in the event process. Outsourcing labour-intensive event logistics management to us lets your team stay focused on more strategic activities.

What We Offer

Our Online Conferencing and Event Service Offerings

Pre-Event

Online RSVP system and management

Design and distribution of:
• Save the Date
• Invitations
• Reminders
• Aide Memoire
• Virtual Conference packs

Consider these extras:
• Pre-event campaigns
• Presentation design
• Conference collateral
home packs
• Design and building of
Event App

Live-Event

Online registration

Livestream to a custom webpage platform:
Agenda, speaker profiles etc
Polls, Q&A and chat functions

Consider these extras:
• CPD point certificate issuing
• High-quality production:
• Multiple cameras
• Integrated presentations
• Customisable backdrop or built stage
• Interactivity and gamification
• Motivational/ Futurist/Political speakers
• Virtual lunch
• Digital photomosaic
• Virtual gifts

Post-Event

Follow-up & Feedback

• Digital Thank You mailer
• Survey form

Consider these extras:
• Post event engagement
• Event report
• Summary pack with video highlights of the conference
• Post-event networking site

Online Platforms

We recommend the following online platforms

Zoom

The video functionality for attendees, all attendees has the ability to control their video which allows a speaker to build better rapport during the presentation.

Multiple view options, having a multitude of view options ranging from gallery view, speaker view and side by side during screen share allows a unique experience for each and every person within the platform.

Reactions, where necessary a speaker or facilitator may need to build rapport with the crowed, now that we can clap hands or physically put up our hands we need to surrogate that gesture to a virtual reaction. Zoom has the ability to gesture a thumbs up, clapping hands or raise their virtual hand to ask a question.

Security, although Zoom has recently been under the spotlight for security, they have since worked on a multitude of functions to protect attendees for unexpected guests. They have introduced a waiting room option that allows the event producer/facilitator to control who has access to the meeting. The producer can also remove people from the meeting and disable their screen share, microphone and video should the need arise. Coupled with that there is an ability to disable the chat or the ability to copy the chat content.

Polling, Zoom has the ability for delegates to poll within the platform, this functionality is limited however it is a good engagement tool.

Recording, for FIA, as previously discussed, to be best executed all events should be recorded for editing and distribution post event. Zoom allows for the session to be recorded in Mp3, Mp4 and the chat to be recorded in a .txt file.

Attendee amount, Zoom has the ability to host 1 000 people in the meeting function, or the platform can be upgraded to take 10 000 people in a webinar functionality.

Breakaway rooms, in a round table example the breakaway rooms can be a great functionality for individuals to breakout into smaller groups so that they can co-create and collaborate in smaller groups.

Mentimeter

Mentimeter is a web application that creates a feedback loop before, during or after an event.

The application is easy to access from a phone’s browser. Mentimeter boasts anonymity in all the interactions as well as real time feedback.

The platform boasts 16 different types of questions ranging from polls, sliders, open ended and Q&A with an up-vote functionality.

All Mentimeter sessions are recorded and can be condensed into PDF or Excel documents so that the event organizer can make deductions based on the events interactivity within the session. This is a powerful tool for content planning for other events, especially for those within a series of events.

Virtual Stage Design

We have photo-realistic virtual stage design sets that will wow your audience

Online Event Catering

We have the following Virtual Hospitality Box packages available

 
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Tea or Coffee and Biscuits Virtual Box

Includes:
• Virtual Hospitality Box, incl 1 x 80mm round branded sticker
• 1 x Branded Mug (Ceramic or Thermal mate
options available)
• 3 x Flavoured Twining Tea Bags/
1x Coffee Bean Bag
• 1 x pack of Gourmet Biscuits
• Artwork Set up fee for branded mugs

Health Snack Virtual Box

Includes:
• Virtual Hospitality Box, including 1 x 80mm round
branded sticker
• 1 x 300ml Smoothie
• 1 x 8cm Health Bar
• 1 x 40g Mixed Nuts, Roasted & Salted

Sweet Treat Virtual Box

Includes:
• Virtual Hospitality Box, including 1 x 80mm round branded sticker
• 1 x Branded Mug (Ceramic or Thermalmate options available)
• 1 x Hot Chocolate Sachet
• 1 x Tub of mini marshmallows
• 1 x pack of Mini Doughnut Bites

Online Event Security

 
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Protect your event from Intruders

We’ve seen the headlines, Google won’t allow their employees to use Zoom, big corporates have denied access to it on work laptops. Now parliament has had a nightmare experience using Zoom, with vulgar content shared and profanities slung at an MP.

Is Zoom to blame? Looking at the facts it’s hard to say, we have noted in the past that the link is not protected when distributed to delegates. In many cases where this happens the sessions are ‘open’ to attend, i.e there’s no RSVP process in place.

5 tips to secure your meeting, no matter the platform

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Client Testimonial

“Thank-you again for running a perfect event, best so far in my opinion!”

General Manager Product & Innovation at at a multinational mobile telecoms company

Client Testimonial

For both occasions, By Design provided exceptional service and we were all very happy with their performance throughout the planning phase and during the event. They have speed and are quite flexible. We also received positive feedback from our customers.

Executive Consumer Sales at a telecoms company

Client Testimonial

“As our valued events agency, I can confirm that By Design Africa  have again delivered an exceptional and truly memorable conference. Both our customers and executive management have rated the event as first class as recorded in their overall survey score.”

Executive: Leading ICT services provider in South Africa

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