Corporates, startups, scaleups, solopreneurs and governmental organisations can leverage two types of virtual events online on the internet or on secure intranets: external virtual events and internal virtual events.
Examples of external virtual events are:
- Trade-shows
- Job fairs
- Expositions
- Marketing events
- Sales events
- Presentations
- Meetings
- Education.
Examples of internal virtual events are:
- Group events.
- Group meetings.
- Group training.
- One-on-one meetings.
In most of these cases, virtual events have replaced traditional face-to-face events. They are ‘subsitutes’ for those traditional internal and external events.
After the Covid-19 pandemic, some organisations have continued to use virtual events next to traditional off-line ways of working with hybrid working. Other organisations have continued as a virtual organisation with predominantly virtual ways of working both internally and in their external interactions with customers and other external stakeholders in for instance their business ecosystem.
