Velvet Software

Velvet @ Event UK 2008

Great anticipation awaited the new two day Event UK show at Birmingham's NEC on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 September. A new format, new layout and new approach were very much evident at this year's event attended by Velvet's Chris Gibbs and Tim Clark.

Key Velvet clients Conference Leeds and HEY (Hull & East Yorkshire) held prominence of position with their stands at the main entrance to welcome visitors as they arrived. Yorkshire Tourist Board's (YTB) Nick Bond coordinated the Yorkshire show area grouping each of the region's destinations into one key area of the exhibition space. For the first time, YTB had their own stand space in amongst the exhibiting destinations.

"Event UK is a great opportunity for us to meet with existing clients and also to pre-arrange appointments with new clients" commented Velvet's Tim Clark. "The NEC is just over an hour from our offices in Swindon and is ideal for use to meet with almost half of our clients over the two day exhibition.".

BICB, Bournemouth's International Conference Bureau team member Suzy Wheeler used their award winning stand design to attract visitors. The innovative surf board themed stand won the "best at show" award at Confex earlier in the year. Maximising stand space and providing a welcoming open meeting area worked well again for Suzy and her team on the stand. "I love the design and the layout - simple, clean and clever", said Velvet's Chris Gibbs. Chris attended the show on Tuesday to meet with Worcester's Emma Robinson and Nottingham's Andy Melton. Chris was giving Emma some face-to-face support and help with Chaser BUREAU whilst her discussions with Andy were focused around Velvet's new on-line registration system reg.istrations.com and their web based accommodation booking system ConferenceBookings.co.uk.

ALARM choose Reg.istrations.com

ALARM, the National Risk Management Forum, evaluated a number of different registration systems before choosing Velvet's latest product - reg.istrations.com - the powerful, logical yet simple to use web based delegate registration system.

ALARM's Keith Southwell and Julie Gray received training on the system following which they had two events live and ready for booking. Keith had evaluated a number of established registration systems before viewing a remote demonstration of Velvet's new reg.istrations.com following a link from  their on-line accommodation booking system www.conferencebookings.co.uk.

Easy to use, flexible and yet offering powerful reporting, Velvet Software's Tim Clark was able to demonstrate the system's ability to adapt and provide all of the complex booking features required of ALARM's monthly and annual conferences. Multiple streams, delegate types and pricing are no problem, explained Tim, "Reg.istrations.com is great - even with complex event the system has been designed to be as flexible as possible allowing users to create instant registration web sites for delegates offering multiple choices linked to one or more itinerary items behind the scenes. It does away with all of the paperwork, first / second / third choices and the hassle of amending bookings when an event fills up".

"It's the first computer training I've actually enjoyed!", commented ALARM's Julie Gray. "There's nothing we've come up with that it can't do!".