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Meetings rooms and events – AV in restricted times

1 March 2021

Meetings rooms and events - AV in restricted times | Institute of Hospitality

Hospitality venues have very little budget at present, so as restrictions are being gradually lifted and people are able to meet in person once more, we asked Chris Gunton, Managing Director of our newest Business Partners, CGA Integration for some ideas and tips on how to make the best of your current AV.

Facilitating better calls

If your clients are currently making business calls from their spare room, kitchen or lounge, coming to your venue and presenting in a meeting room which has a better camera than their laptop and sounds great could well increase their productivity. All the design elements you have invested in and your quality AV can come together to create an optimum environment for that all important video call.

Ensuring delegates can be heard

To effectively get your message across in a room of socially distanced delegates, you need what is called a “Sound reinforcement system”. This is best done with multiple ceiling speakers spread through a room. Many of your function rooms will already have ceiling speakers for background music, and with care, these can be re-tasked without decoration, to make a vocal reinforcement system to help your delegates deliver safe and effective presentations.

Delivering Hybrid meetings

Even if we are only allowed to have a small number of delegates in our rooms and they have to be socially distanced, it is still possible to enable them to successfully meet with distanced colleagues via a ‘call’ if you get the AV in the meeting room right. Current AV allows your existing radio microphones to be linked to a call, or for a dedicated ceiling microphone to be deployed to cover a whole room to more effectively bring together delegates who are both at the meeting in person with those dialling in remotely.

Enabling large scale virtual events

Although it is no longer possible to gather everyone together into one room in an old-style company conference, did you know that your lectern or radio mics can be linked to a ‘call’ with an HD camera to make a live stream to remote delegates, at the same time as presenting in your function room? A small group of individuals can deliver key corporate messages to everyone in the company, without geographical bias, from your venue.

Meetings rooms and events - AV in restricted times | Institute of Hospitality
Chris Gunton, Managing Director of CGA Integration

CGA Integration are presenting an IoH webinar: Hosting Successful ‘Post Lockdown’ Meetings and Events on 4 March at 3pm on the subject of making the most of your existing AV Systems. You can register to attend here.

Meetings rooms and events - AV in restricted times | Institute of Hospitality

Main image: CGA designed and installed integrated video and meeting video conferencing at The Winslow Crown Plaza London the City
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