In January last year I set out the important role AI will play over the next decade in transforming the Events Industry. Despite Covid, my view a year later remains unchanged. In fact the last twelve months has highlighted why as an industry we need more AI-powered event tech, not less. We all know that…
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HeadBox is on a mission to reinvent the events industry through humankind event tech. We create products designed to digitally transform outdated processes and ultimately make our customers’ lives easier. Each month the Product & Tech team will take us through what they’ve been working on, showcasing key releases and updates to HeadBox products. This…
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Virtual events go far beyond a simple video call. As the event industry has adapted to the challenges Covid-19 has thrown up, the creativity and technology surrounding virtual events has improved, rapidly. Over the last few months, we’ve worked closely with our clients to design and facilitate events that are engaging but also hit their…
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When lockdown first began, we spoke to Livitay founders, Jack Needham and James Naylor about ways to protect your mental and physical health in a crisis. We caught up with them over Mental Health Awareness Week to discuss their new app.
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This week we’ve released some really exciting product updates that make it a breeze to create and manage your listings in HeadBox First up, you now access your listings through a new My Venues link in your navigation. On the brand new My Venues page you’ll see all of your Spaces, now grouped by Venue, so it’s…
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As part of our 2020 Event Disruptor Report, Senior Marketing Executive Amy Stroud explored how the concept of the workplace is expected to become vastly altered in the near future. With environment linked so closely to productivity, the onus is on employees to adopt tech solutions that will attract and maintain talent. The productivity of…
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As part of our 2020 Events Disruptor Report, Product Designer Josh Richardson and Lead Brand Designer John Scott have explored how ‘good design’ is increasingly being acknowledged as a driver of competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced world. But what does ‘good design’ mean? In modern tech companies, this largely means utilising Design Thinking principles to…
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HeadBox has grown from a start-up of 4 people to a Small-Medium Enterprise (or “scale up” to use a trendier term) with 60 employees over the last 4 and a half years. During that time we have learnt a lot about the exciting opportunities and potential pain points that scaling a team and building a…
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Almost everywhere we look, artificial intelligence is causing a fundamental shift in the way people work. As AI begins to automate those mundane, repetitive tasks, employees’ focuses will transfer to what truly needs human judgement. As part of our 2020 Events Disruptor Report, I explored how these changes enable workers to become more empathetic, focusing…
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Following our 4th Birthday party celebrations last month, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to start looking at the year ahead with Gavin Spurling our CTO, to set out our big plans for year 5. The events industry isn’t short of problems that we could try to solve through human-kind event tech. It’s…
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