With the South Africa team back in the office after a successful event and forays to Alaska and Portugal in the near future it seems that the world is our workplace.

There has been much prediction about the death of international travel – that it would be made obsolete by the internet and real time conferencing – but it seems that those soothsayers missed an important point. People. Anyone who has recently met someone that they have known for a while via email or telephone will know exactly what I’m talking about, rarely does the face match with the voice you’ve been hearing.

Live Events ‘live’ for a reason, they serve a basic need for interaction and give people real connections. And they’re good for communication too, key information is delivered fully packaged with its very own aide memoires, sights, sounds and smells that prompt memory recall. The ways the Human mind files information gives us these free reminders with our audience, it would be a real shame not to use them.