The coronavirus may have transformed office life but it hasn't altered the conference circuit.
Event organizers are planning a return to in-person confabs as soon as the pandemic dissipates despite the environmental benefits of keeping things online.
"Creating happenstance is really challenging in the virtual world," said Phillip Maggs, innovation director at events agency Identity, the organizer of last year's COP26 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. After nearly two years of COVID restrictions, people are keen to reconnect. Omicron foiled CES' big comeback this month but even with cases of the highly transmissible variant surging globally, more than 40,000 people attended the tech conference in person in Las Vegas.Virtual conferences can be more inclusive and accessible because they are cheaper and easier to access but sometimes meeting in person is essential for hammering out an agreement.
Around 40,000 delegates from scores of countries attended the talks in Glasgow and the two-week event deployed a range of measures from donating the 15,000 square meters of carpets it used to providing participants with reusable aluminum water bottles and a largely locally-sourced menu to ensure they were carbon neutral.
Carbon offsets enable a polluter to buy into an emissions reduction project such as a tree-planting initiative and use the credit awarded to offset the impact of their own emissions.
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