James Dixon

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Event Industry News Podcast · From Planner to Platform: The vFairs Origin Story · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Excellent.

And and that brings us, I suppose, to to the crux of what I mentioned in the introduction, which is that V Fares was designed, you know, uh i primarily, well, initially, as virtual events, online virtual events.

Um and I mentioned a reference in my introduction that during the pandemic

this was critical and essential to organizers globally being able to continue running events of some description.

Now we saw a lot of technology companies who were platform providers, registration providers, organization providers, whatever the tech platform was.

They were pivoting desperately to try and offer.

a virtual events online solution.

You didn't have to do that pivot.

So suddenly you're presented with this situation in twenty twenty, presumably, where

Almost overnight, demand must have skyrocketed.

And and of course t stability in the platform is must have been essential during that period of time because it's okay, you know, bringing on the extra staff or the extra support uh team that you need in order to facilitate those those clients.

But excuse me, that having the actual p stability within the platform when you will have multiple users using it simultaneously must have been critical in terms of the actual infrastructure.

Yeah, and and it's it it was

it was a huge shift and and obviously we saw people were so desperate to use you know to to to they had to move quickly.

Um and if you were running an event early in twenty twenty in spring or or even summer, you had a very short period of time to to have to to adapt and and either

Cancel your event.

and hope that you could resurrect it the following year or do something in the virtual space to allow it to continue and exist during that period of time.

And a lot of event organizers they did get it wrong, didn't they?

Because you know, sadly they would they would go to maybe a platform that was themselves adapting very, very quickly.

And we saw examples of them not being able to sustain and allow those concurrent users or, you know, j just flaws

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