Creative Virtual Event Ideas

Are you an event planner responsible for the virtual event ideas for a company, business, or office event? Or maybe it’s a private affair. Do we have this right? Of course we have a lot of creative and fun virtual event ideas listed below, but whether it’s a trade show, conference event, or a holiday party, the bottom line is this. The more you can get your attendees and invited guests involved, engaged and talking about your event, the better! The objective is to put on an event that gives every person remarkable experiences while achieving the important goals of your event. All the event decisions need to be lined up to support the achievement of that objective. Once you get your ideas lined up, begin thinking about how to incorporate those ideas into your event.

Virtual Social Event Ideas

When it comes to virtual social event ideas, there is one problem you may encounter. The feeling of “been there, done that” alive and well in the minds of your guests the moment they are invited to the event. The truth is, they are likely right. But you can really change that perception by doing something different and innovative from very the start. You can make them feel good when they think about the upcoming event. You can make them feel excited and eager to attend. You can make them feel important! And the sooner, the better!

So how is that done? You do something that no one else is doing. You do it with the most overlooked, untapped and underutilized opportunity available to you. The invitations! It’s true; the way you invite your guests and VIPs can make all the difference. So, be different!

Sending Gigeo® personalized video invitations is the easiest way to engage your guests and VIPs while creating a buzz long before your event begins.

 

Event Ideas

 Listed below you will see a variety of creative, inspiring, innovative and out of the ordinary event ideas to get your event planning started in the right direction.

Virtual Escape Room
During the course of the last few years, there has been a stunning trend in respect of virtual escape rooms, some sort of a joint venture, particularly for amusement purposes. However, the circumscribed room duly shut from inside for a prolonged amount of time is absolutely not compatible with regard to pandemic precautionary measures.

Virtual Game Night
Games night awash with entertainment is regarded as an outstanding social gathering, and in case such events are difficult to manage physically, then making arrangements of virtual reality gaming, duly a computer-simulated is a well-suited replacement. There is an abundance of intriguing virtual games including online versions of exceptional board games.

Online Workouts
With the never-ending pandemic situation, getting the physical training sessions in and keeping oneself in good shape and healthy seems an uphill task. Luckily, there are a lot of virtual workout programs out there that are geared towards helping maintain good health from home.

Magic Show
Events where magic is shown, are indeed a wonderful source of entertainment and an exceptional interaction experience for any kind of social gathering. The magic-man of your event will be fun to watch as he or she amuses and enchants the audience.

Virtual Fundraising Event Ideas

Digital Auction
A digital auction is regarded to be essential, especially at the time of your organized gathering. For the purpose of virtual charity events and virtual fundraising, these types of events can be arranged when physical interaction is not feasible or possible for safety reasons. At the time of organizing any virtual auction, you’ll need to get creative with everything that you intend to raise money with.

Virtual Tour
If your charity organizers are looking for a place like a museum, you should provide your donors with incentives to take virtual tours as a part of the virtual event. Places of interest for tourists and large business gatherings can be set up for multiple visits and multiple venues like a factory tours, education centers, haunted houses, animal farms, oceanic tours and digital tours of all types.

Online Paint Night
Paint night is a social favorite which usually takes place at restaurants, bars and meeting places where people are encouraged to participate in the painting activity. Costs and expenses are usually low so add in some creative incentives to the mix. These virtual events are great for helping fundraisers.

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
When seeking financial support, Peer-to-Peer fundraising is great for sharing the details of any event, charity or otherwise.

There is no denying the fact that kind of fundraising involves the physical element like sports events arrangements. However, it is quite feasible to organize an all-encompassing virtual fundraiser rather than arranging an event involving physical activities. In this connection, you will have to establish a forum in respect of the fundraising and donation whereby you could provide the necessary information thereof.

Virtual Coffee Breaks
To keep attentive the employees working remotely, outside of a conventional work environment would be a difficult task, particularly for groups who are accustomed to frequently communicating at their office and now are separate from one another for some months. However, there is a technique whereby you can engage your employees working from home with their job assignments by means of virtual breaks for coffee, snacks, etc.

These breaks are easy to arrange through video conferences and can happen routinely every Friday. These coffee breaks provide two-fold benefits: motivate the group members to avail respite, thereby ensuring a high output level and enabling them to keep their social contacts up.

Live Translations
The considerable benefit of virtual gathering in a digital environment is that one can approach a huge audience conveniently. In spite of that, the language might cause some sort of hindrance while interacting with the audience extensively, including international ones. To ensure your event reaches international participants, including the disabled ones, you must make efforts to facilitate live subtitles or relevant translation.

Mini Masterclasses
Virtual masterclasses are great for every area that people are looking for personal improvement. Rather than carrying out breakout meetings and boring lectures, checkout search out some creative virtual masterclass ideas that best fit your circumstances or goals.

Virtual Event Production Ideas

Include Pre-Recorded Sessions
Since there are some drawbacks to pre-recorded sessions, it might not be the best choice for some events. Although, the high level of control you have in the quality of the recording makes it ideal for the on-demand evergreen content.

Prepare Speaker Kits
If for some reason, you are not able to collaborate with a production firm for the virtual event, you can make the production of the presentation better by using plug-and-play equipment.

Treat Your Online Space as a Venue
The platform where you build the virtual event platform is not just a place where the guests get access to a webinar. It is much more than that. You can use the platform to its full advantage by having a well-rounded, multi-faceted virtual experience.

Hybrid Event Ideas

Bring Remote Attendees into the Room
If the environment of the event allows it, you can also use technology to bring in virtual guests to the actual physical venue. This would be quite helpful in making the guests feel included. It would also be great for boosting engagement.

Include a Virtual Host
Even though in the future, most guests would attend hybrid events virtually, it is still better to make the live experience your main focus and the virtual part your secondary focus. This does not mean that the virtual guests are to be treated as an afterthought.

Incentivize Live Attendance
You must try to make sure that the live component of the hybrid event is good enough that it makes the virtual guests wanting to attend the next event physically. The environment that physical attendance provides is one of the best reasons to attend in person. It doesn’t matter what and where the venue is. The main thing that matters is that the guests are not at home but at the venue instead.

Use an App to Connect Audiences
Although apps for mobile events are not new, they will surely become more popular and important as time progresses. They would allow the remote guests to connect with the physical attendees in hybrid events. The app for this would become a middle-ground for all the attendees and will help them see the same information.

Use Lighting to Create Cohesive Environments
You can use lightning as a fun and entertaining way to connect it with the physical attendees that the virtual guests could appreciate. Use lightning as a small part of your overall theme or make it like your platform’s brand.

 

The goals and objectives of most corporate events will differ substantially from event to event. This makes the planning, production and execution of your event very different from other types of events. As a result, it can be difficult to reconcile the corporate goals and objectives for the event at hand. On top of that, there is a constant demand for new creative and innovative guest experiences and event ideas. And it really makes no difference whether the event is for live, in-person attendees or a virtual event.

TYPES OF CORPORATE EVENT OBJECTIVES
+ Entertain Executives And Managers
+ Making A Team Bond
+ Create Press Coverage
+ Stimulate Social Media Coverage
+ Support Above The Line Marketing Activities
+ Making The Boss Happy
+ Changing Customers’ Perceptions
+ Motivate Sales Personnel

CORPORATE EVENT PLANNERS RESPONSIBILITIES
+ Product Launches
+ Seminars
+ Conferences
+ Meetings
+ Focus Groups
+ Awards Ceremonies
+ Leadership Retreats
+ Dinners
+ Client Entertaining
+ Employee Training
+ Corporate Hospitality
+ Board Retreats
+ Trade Shows
+ User Events
+ Team Building
+ Sales Meetings

CORPORATE EVENT VENUE MAIN FACTORS
+ Accessibility
+ Capacity
+ Catering
+ Climate
+ Infrastructure
+ Location
+ Services
+ Staff
+ Sustainability
+ Tech Facilities
+ Timing

TYPES OF CORPORATE EVENTS
+ Milestones
+ Meetings
+ Celebrations
+ Seminars
+ Product Launches
+ Leadership Retreats
+ Dinners
+ Awards Ceremonies
+ Trade Shows
+ Corporate Parties
+ Employee Training
+ Client Entertaining
+ Sales Meetings
+ User Events
+ Conferences
+ Corporate Hospitality
+ Holiday
+ Focus Groups
+ Business Anniversary
+ Board Retreats
+ Team Building

CORPORATE EVENT EXPERIENCES IDEAS
+ VIP Shuttle
+ Inflatable Games
+ Climbing Wall
+ Indoor Fields
+ Wine Blending
+ Bowling
+ 360-degree Photo Booth
+ VR Game Experiences
+ Hover Ball Archery
+ Matching Step and Repeat
+ Photo Booth
+ Performance Companies
+ Casino Tables
+ Digital Forest
+ Selfie Props
+ Digital Walls
+ Neon Light-Up Furniture

CORPORATE EVENT NETWORKING GAMES IDEAS
+ Networking Lounge
+ Giant Chess
+ Escape Rooms
+ Inflatable Obstacle Courses
+ Ball Pit
+ Segmented Escape Rooms
+ Ice Breakers
+ Peekaboo Step & Repeat
+ Big Scalextric
+ Change Teams Each Time
+ Casino Tables

CORPORATE EVENT TECHNOLOGY IDEAS
+ iPad Food Ordering
+ Photo Booth GIF Maker
+ 360-degree Photography
+ Headshot Lounge
+ Wearable Feedback Technology
+ Virtual Reality Headsets
+ Circular LED Screen
+ Gesture Control Presentations
+ 360-degree Video
+ Digital Graffiti Wall

CORPORATE EXHIBIT IDEAS
+ Cut Out Backdrops
+ Demo Stations
+ Beacons
+ VR Demos
+ Corporate Stands
+ Smart Badges
+ Slide Decks

 

CORPORATE EVENT MARKETING IDEAS
+ Limited Pop-Ups
+ Branded Swag
+ Activation Pillars
+ Charging Stations
+ Branded Segways
+ Dessert Signage
+ Roaming Competitions
+ Unique Staff Uniforms
+ Branded Balloons
+ External Stair Wraps
+ Branded Furniture
+ Tethered Hot Air Balloons

 

CORPORATE EVENT DECOR IDEAS
+ Sustainability Concepts
+ Balloon Ceiling
+ Indoor Tailgate
+ Aerial Hoops
+ Branded Balloons
+ Focal Pieces
+ Props
+ Fabric Tunnels
+ Unusual Venues
+ Picture Profile Runway
+ Standing Desks
+ Cut Out Backdrops
+ Project Mapping
+ Unique Dance Floors

 

CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT IDEAS
+ Sand Artists
+ Synchronized Swimmers
+ Walking Robots
+ Dance Groups
+ Ipad Magicians
+ Corporate Percussion Groups
+ Roaming Entertainment
+ Video Mapping
+ Talking Robots
+ Laser Shows
+ LED Shows

 

CORPORATE GIFTS IDEAS
+ Professional Coaching Day
+ Accommodation Paid
+ Gigeo Video Invitations
+ Overnight Stay
+ Community Focus
+ Gourmet Hampers
+ Corporate Subscriptions

 

CORPORATE EVENT CATERING IDEAS
+ Ice Luge
+ Servers
+ Food Infusion
+ Drink Stations
+ Donut Wall
+ Interactive Gourmet
+ Sponsored Cocktails
+ Canape Spoons
+ Smoothie Jars
+ Dinner Boxes
+ Vintage Drink Bus
+ Bespoke Mini Boards
+ Mixologists
+ Niche Snacks
+ Private Chef
+ Canape Junk Food

CORPORATE FOOD and BEVERAGE IDEAS
+ Tacos and Mini Margaritas
+ Charcoal Lemonade
+ Mini Pails of Food
+ Floral Ice Bucket
+ Bacon Bar
+ Share Boards
+ Willy Wonka-sized Chocolate Fountain
+ Savory Lollipops
+ Caramel Garnish
+ Trash Can Nachos
+ Strawberry Roses
+ Fruit and Veggie Animals
+ Shaved Ice
+ Donut Wall
+ Rainbow Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
+ Pretzel Station
+ Booze-Free Cocktail Bar
+ Creme Brulee Shooters
+ Stir-fried Ice Cream Parlor
+ Personal Pineapple
+ Cactus Macaroons
+ Champagne Jelly Cubes
+ Sushi Rainbow
+ Portable Shrimp and Grits

VIRTUAL EVENT IDEAS
+ Virtual Charades
+ Virtual Wine Tasting and Kits
+ Virtual Murder Mystery Dinner
+ Virtual Benefits Fair
+ Virtual Fitness Session
+ Virtual Exhibition Fair
+ Virtual Casino Night
+ Virtual Bingo
+ Virtual Coffee Breaks
+ Virtual Education Fair
+ Virtual Scavenger Hunt
+ Virtual Concerts
+ Virtual Dinner Party
+ Virtual Open Day
+ Virtual Escape Room
+ Virtual Yoga Classes
+ Virtual Crime Scene Investigation
+ Virtual Product Launch
+ Virtual Career Fair
+ Virtual Poker Tournament
+ Virtual Cooking Class
+ Virtual Jam Sessions
+ Virtual Onboarding Fair
+ Virtual Trivia Nights
+ Virtual Conference
+ Virtual Murder Mystery
+ Virtual Improv
+ Virtual Trade Show
+ Virtual Guess Who
+ Virtual In-It To Win-It
+ Virtual Job Fair

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