When planning a hybrid fair, you need to keep all your participants in mind.

There are two types of visitors: on-site participants and the virtual audience. This does not mean that you are hosting two separate events. ☝️

Keep a few important things in mind when planning:

You should deliver the same content, but in a different way for both groups (online vs. live).

✅ Allow virtual participants to participate and ask questions during the presentations.

✅ Host a video chat networking room where face-to-face participants can meet and exchange ideas with virtual participants.

✅ Conduct surveys in which both groups of participants can take part.

It is true that it is a bit more difficult to keep virtual participants engaged in front of a computer screen. To keep the content interesting, you should therefore make sure that the topic and the presentation are well transferable over the internet. But more on this in one of our next articles