If you've ever run a virtual event with multiple speakers, you surely know how challenging it is. Coordinating the handovers from one speaker to another, managing the technical side, you name it.

It just may be that the virtual advisory board meeting allows for a more equitable space than an in-person meeting.

Everything you thought you knew about advisory board meetings has been upended. Those 2-day, intensely focused in-person meetings, punctuated by coffee and lunch breaks, don't work in the virtual setting. Open Audience has recently published a blog entry sharing their thoughts on advisory board meetings.

Digital restructuring in the event industry

In a time when the whole world is changing to become more digital, event organizers and agencies that usually make a living through physical meetings have in record time become the new tech gurus.

An increasing number of company internal communication meetings (all company meetings, town halls or conferences, whatever name or format they may take in your business) are being hosted partially, or wholly online using easy to implement and affordable streaming platforms like