Demand Surges For Creative Business Events — Meetings Innovation Report


Skift Take

2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone revolts against boring meetings, and many event owners, meeting planners, and hospitality executives are paying attention.

Skift's Meetings Innovation Report is a weekly newsletter defining the future of business events by deciphering strategies that drive engagement. Subscribe. The Future of Meetings & Events Earlier this year, the Skift crew convened inside a gracious brownstone home in Gramercy Park for our annual SkiftOne day to discuss our core values and collective vision. Getting out of the office to get out of our heads and think beyond the daily deadlines was fundamental to the success of that day. It's getting easier to find creative venues for internal corporate events thanks to the sharing economy. Companies like Spacebase in Europe are developing online peer-to-peer platforms that offer creative, independently owned venues for rent ranging from photography studios to hipster cafes. These types of spaces have always been available for group bookings, but they've never been this easy to search for by location, capacity, and price