Inclusivity is an ever-evolving topic which is extremely relevant to the MICE industry as it can influence a delegate’s event satisfaction exponentially.
By embracing diversity and inclusivity, you create an environment where all attendees feel valued, respected, and included. This leads to richer conversations, broader insights, and a more memorable experience for everyone involved.
The environment significantly influences how attendees process information, retain knowledge, and interact with others. Elements such as lighting, seating arrangements, and use of technology can either enhance or hinder our focus and engagement.
Here at M&I, we want people to feel comfortable, engaged and productive, and have an elevated event experience. Here’s how we incorporate these principles into our events.
To have the best event experience, it’s so important that you have a real variety of thoughts and skills in the room, to really discuss, challenge and widen our knowledge around the MICE sector and the possibilities within it. At M&I we do this by:
Creating an accessible event is more than just adding a ramp to a venue when it’s needed. It’s about the visibility of accessible attributes, for others attending the event too, to help awareness and to help normalise these additions to an event so they become second nature to event planners. Some ways M&I incorporate these ideas include:
By embracing diversity and inclusivity, you create an environment where all attendees feel valued, respected, and included. This leads to richer conversations, broader insights, and a more memorable experience for everyone involved.”
Within our events we integrate technology to make sure that those attending don’t have to worry about anything, from connectivity, to their own devices to tech products being integrated into events, to move away from the traditional trade show ‘sit and listen’ format. Some ways we do this include:
M&I have moved away from the traditional trade show format for a reason. We believe that a mixture of 1-2-1 carefully curated meetings and cultural activities help build stronger, better-quality relationships. Alongside that, there are ways that we can make sure that the time at events is also as conducive as possible, for example:
Here at M&I, incorporating these elements into our events keeps people engaged, comfortable and productive, leading to an overall better attendee experience.
We want to demonstrate a commitment to creating an environment where every participant feels valued and connected and adapt our events to be as inclusion and productive as possible.
Implementing these strategies has transformed our events into dynamic environments which actively support learning and engagement. See our calendar of events below to join us on one of our upcoming events.
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