The new platform launched by BESydney will support all stages of the event planning process including researching, pitching, planning, budgeting, and marketing. Photo Credit: Adobe Stock/undrey
Business Events Sydney (BESydney) has launched its new event planning
portal to support event organisers to access tools, resources, and
funding to host their business event in Sydney.
The event planning portal has been designed in consultation with
customers who run small events and agents to address the challenges they
are facing during the event planning process. It will support all
stages of the event planning process including researching, pitching,
planning, budgeting, and marketing the event, all in one place.
BESydney CEO, Lyn Lewis-Smith said: “We are continuing our digital
transformation journey to provide efficiencies and tailoring our service
to specific customer needs with our new event planning portal. The
portal provides insights on event considerations including delivering a
socially impactful event or checklists for inclusivity and
accessibility, as well as ideas for venues, entertainment, and speakers
in Sydney. We want to support conference, meeting and event owners
pitch, win, plan and promote business events in Sydney.”
The new events planning portal is personalised by event sector with
resources and content tailored to event sector requirements. Users are
also able to create custom supplier lists based on unique event
preferences. The portal is designed to be of benefit to smaller events
which may not have an events team behind it, and it provides access to
the Sydney Meeting Fund which supports business events with between
100-500 participants or delegates.
With offers from AU$40 (US$26) per person, the Sydney Meetings Fund
is dedicated to helping business events become a success – this may
include conferences, incentives or corporate events that are deemed
eligible.
The site has a video guide to explain navigation – across the
pitching and bidding process; researching and planning; and then
promoting the event and boosting delegate attendance. Some of those
tools include downloadable event marketing toolkits, video and image
galleries, Sydney destination guides and presentation templates.
Conference meeting and incentive event owners can create a free
account and access online resources on the BESydney Event Planning
Platform.