Eurocities Economic Development Forum

226+ Attendees

3 Days

Event Summary

Why did you decide to organize a virtual event?

We (City of Oulu) were hosting a European-wide event and it was originally planned to organize locally in Oulu. But, as we all know, the pandemic turned it into a digital event.

What was the industry and purpose of the event?

The event was the Eurocities Economic Development Forum (https://eurocities.eu/about-us/) and it is held twice a year. Eurocities is the network of 190 cities in 39 countries, representing 130 million people.

Through joint work, knowledge-sharing and coordinated Europe-wide activity, Eurocities network ensures that cities and their people are heard in Europe. The goal of the event was to bring people from the cities together share information, ideas and insight under the

theme of the event ‘Innovative cities – creating a resilient economy’.

Was this your first virtual event and how was the experience?

This was not the first event like this for us but the technologies that we put inside of it, made it quite challenging. Eventually we ended up with Deal Room platform and Grassmark tv-production. Everything was smooth and easy. The usability of the platform was excellent for the participants and it was easy to create digital booths inside of it.

The most important thing was that everything was included into the platform. Just one place/channel to go in different streams and subevents.

Event in numbers

It was a 3-day event, with 226 participants and there were 16 booths.

What our customers are saying

Sweden Foodtech “Thank you Deal Room for helping us make Sweden Foodtech Big Meet into such an extraordinary success! 1500 people from all over the globe in one and the same beautiful, efficient UX. Soooo easy to work with, inspiring a gazilion meetings. You are our platform forever!”

Johan Jörgensen Founder and Partner at Sweden Foodtech

Nordic Conference on
Sustainable Healthcare “Thanks to the platform we have been able to facilitate nearly a thousand business meetings. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground by giving them the opportunity to meet other leaders, investors, customers and partners. In a few clicks they can schedule their meetings. Digital events with concrete feedback.”

Charles-Louis Machuron CEO of Silicon Luxembourg

Gary Vaynerchuk “How many deals are actually done in this event was staggering to me. Deal Room brings value! This to me is the modern setup for event marketing. Big shout out to you guys for what you are doing!”

Arctic 15 Event, Gary Vaynerchuk (Vee) CEO at VaynerX

Global MIL Youth Hackathon & Accelerator “I think that we were match-made in Heaven.”

Aleksandra Mangus Co-organizer at UNESCO

Media Meet & Greet “The Deal Room team are all pros.
You get real human contact and lots of help! ”

Janet Greco Founder of Broadcast Projects

Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare “Deal Room was surprisingly easy to use and navigate, both for us in the team arranging the conference, but also for our participants.”

Felicia Matz Wennerhed Project coordinator at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

Varsinais-Suomen Taloyhtiöpäivä “Deal Room representatives were very easy to reach. We got the support we needed to prepare and organize the event.”

Juuso Kallo Managing Director at Real Estate Federation Varsinais-Suomi

Belgian Broadcast Day “Our experiences with this platform were very positive.

Both the amount of opportunities provided by the platform and the technical implementation were top-notch.”

Jonathan Van de Velde Program & Communications Director at MediaNet Vlaanderen

Belgian Broadcast Day “Deal Room is our solution provider and event partner. We’ve always trusted Deal Room and managed to improve the BioExpo experience.”