According to AVIXA’s survey, 83% of AV businesses are feeling negative impacts of the current pandemic, and the live events sector has been hit the hard due to the limitations on travel and event postponements or cancellations, commercial integration is likely to feel the pinch too. RAVE's Mark Coxon investigates.
The 2020 edition of Integrate has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and will next take place from 24 to 26 August 2021, in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
When Integrate launched the 2020 campaign concept ‘A Life Transformed’, never did we imagine how accurate this would be. There’s no such thing as ‘business as usual’ in the current COVID climate and certainly not those of us working in events. But can creativity and thinking outside the 'venue box' be the catalyst that will transform the events sector?
This time last month no one had heard the acronym 'WFH' or 'social distancing', now they are both front runners for the 2020 word of the year. While the benefits of collaboration technology and video conferencing are nothing new to the AV industry, it’s only now, with a third of the world’s population in lockdown, that the world is putting these tools to good use.
