Our event solutions and team provide the technology, support, marketing and expertise you need to expand the reach and impact of your important events.
What is Virtual Summit as a Service (VSaaS)?
Virtual and hybrid summits aim to achieve the same end effect as traditional conferences: participants learn about a particular topic, and have to opportunity to exchange ideas with one another and with the organizer.
With 20 years experience running events both in-person and online, the Global Supply Chain Council (GSCC) together with Chain.NET, are among Asia's leading supply chain, logistics and procurement event specialists.
Our virtual summit solutions allow your organization to run your event online, avoid any health issues, reduce event costs dramatically, contribute to a sustainable economy, and dramatically extend the reach to a much larger audience across the APAC region.
When a hybrid summit is well planned and based on a well designed platform, it can complement or even completely replace a physical event.
Why you should go virtual?
- Cut costs: our unique virtual events tend to cost much less than in-person ones. That’s because going virtual does away with a lot of the expenses associated with renting large conference rooms. Venue rental fees and F&B can be expensive when using 5 stars hotels. Add in travel and accommodations, signage and other physical collateral, and you’re looking at an enormous spend – and high ROI expectations for your company.
- Reach way more people: when your summit is virtual, attendance isn’t limited by the size of a venue or who can be there. People can tune in from anywhere in the world – at home, in the office, or on the go – and at any time, if the event is recorded and made available on demand. You can make the presentations free to watch after the live event and viewers can easily share the content on social media.
- Remove restrictions: while participating in a physical event is a binary decision – either you do or you don’t – a hybrid event allows you to only participate in the parts you’re interested in. Do you just want to see one keynote and attend a panel discussion? If the event is virtual, you can do just that and be back at your desk quickly. Virtual events remove time/place restrictions and ensure that everyone who wants to participate can do so.
- Experience virtual networking: going virtual doesn't rule out one of the biggest selling points for a lot of conference attendees: networking. Our platform makes it possible to set up a "virtual lounge" where delegates can go from table to table to meet each other and have real-time video discussions throughout the summit. Sponsors can have their own branding and dedicated tables too.
- Bring in experts from anywhere: it’s much easier to pitch your event to potential guest speakers and partners when they can contribute content conveniently from their home or office. Otherwise, speaking at a conference can be a tall order since it means making time to get there and be there. Speakers will be able to take questions from the audience using the live chat and meet face-to-face with delegates in the virtual lounge.
- Gather data and leads: virtual summits can often tell you a lot about delegates: which sessions they attended and for how long, which speakers they interacted with, and more. This kind of insight is invaluable for gauging interest on your new solutions/services and developing your marketing content. Asking registrants to opt-in to email blasts or requiring an email to access the replays can also be effective for lead generation.
- Go green: by virtualizing an event, you also contribute to a sustainable economy. Travel (especially international flights) is one of the main sources of global warming (Carbon Footprint Calculator). This extensive traveling is no longer necessary for online events! By virtualizing physical events you can therefore save thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions!
Nearly carbon-neutral
Although there’s still a carbon footprint associated with hosting and watching the speakers online, as well as powering the computers and devices needed for the virtual summit, new research shows that the carbon footprint of an online attendee is around 1% of an attendee of a traditional conference: not zero, but not far off.
Why choose GSCC?
- Broad reach: we reach an engaged, loyal following of 250,000+ supply chain, procurement and logistics executives in APAC. Click here for demographics.
- Maximized results: we provide comprehensive event analytics and reporting to optimize your virtual summit investment
- Close consultation: our events are conceived, developed and launched in close consultation with our clients to ensure that they are timely, relevant and directly targeted to market needs.
- Top quality platform: impress your delegates, speakers and partners with sleek, professional-looking website for your own virtual event - speakers and partners dashboard included!
Your Brand/Logo Exposure
Here are the screenshots of reception area, event partner section, social lounge and virtual booth.
We've been delivering world-class webinars, virtual workshops and online virtual summits since 2015. Have a look at some the summits already produced or currently in preparation here.
If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please contact us at sponsor@gscc.co, indicating the level of sponsorship you are interested at.
If you are interested in physical or in-person events sponsorship, click here.
"JUST BRING THE SPEAKERS" PACKAGE
For up to 8 speakers / no limit of attendees
Starting at US$ 12,000 for a one-day event
- A full-featured and secure mobile-friendly website including homepage, registration process, speakers page, schedule page, partners/logos, ticket pages, and replays accessible.
- Facilitation and communications with speakers (client must provide list of speakers and email addresses) via email, WhatsApp, LinkedIn
- Onboarding and engaging with your speakers - populating their bios, adding photos, video recordings and making them feel supported
- Creation of email sequence for delegates and speakers e.g. welcome, session reminders, etc. (uploaded to platform for automation, delegates list can also be imported/exported)
- Promotional copy creation: including 3 event solo emails and 3 short texts for social media
- Social media banner creation: including 3 designs that can be used on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc. (2 revisions included)
- Your company logo is featured on the main event banner (top of the homepage)
- Your logo will also be displayed in the main stage backdrop when speakers talk
- One permanent table with your logo and your name (max. 24 characters with space) in the main social lounge (first row)
- One minute promo video that can be used before or after your session
- Your booth is featured in a special carousel on the reception page, attendees can click on it to access directly
- Possibility to host small in-person gatherings across Asia if demand is there (additional cost might apply)
- Integrate with payment processor and paid access portal (if needed)
- 30 free passes for your guests, partners or employees with full access to all the live sessions
- 30 min weekly briefing/training with your team to explain all the features of the platform and the virtual booth
Marketing to GSCC database / social media channels not included.
The above package also guarantee:
- Website active up to six (6) months after the event date (with sessions replays)
- A event manager (see description below)
- Office hours technical support during days of the conference/summit
- Full attendance and site usage reports.
The event manager leads all communications with your team during the entire process from planning through execution of the virtual summit/conference:
- Coordinating the launch meeting to discuss objectives, schedule, roles and responsibilities
- Sharing of best-practices templates and marketing tips
- Being on-call to help troubleshoot any questions your speakers might have
- Coordinating with your sponsors (or partners) to make them look their best
- Reviewing your final conference site configuration and giving feedback
- Coordinating post-conference debrief session.
ADDITIONAL PACKAGES:
Speaker Outreach/Research
Take the guesswork out of the research process
- Strategy session to hone in on your perfect type of speaker
- Well researched professionals that fit perfectly with your theme
- Contact information provided in Excel file (max. 30 speakers)
US$ 990
Virtual Summit Marketing
Our marketing team is expert in promoting events for maximum impact and leads generation. Visit https://gscc.co/ for the various advertising options.