Conference Room
Decide on how the room is to be set up.
What is best for the conference you are organising?
- Theatre style
- Boardroom
- Hollow Rectangle
- U Shape
- Cabaret
- Classroom
- Circle of chairs
- Top Table
What type of chairs are provided?
- Are they ergonomically designed?Are they comfortable. As your delegates may be spending a great deal of time sitting in them it is important that the chairs are comfortable.
Do you need tables that are square, oblong or round?
- Check which the venue supplies
Do you need more than one room?
- Do you need syndicate rooms and if so how many and what are they for? Size of groups using these rooms is important so you need to know how many of the main delegates will be breaking out into the syndicate rooms.
What size rooms do you need?
How close are these other rooms to the main room?
- It is important that your delegates do not have to spend a long time walking between various rooms
What is wheelchair access like?
- Does the venue provide this and how easy is it for disabled delegates to move around inside the venue - are the rooms all located on one floor, is there a lift for them to use if necessary
How much natural daylight is there?
- This can impact on a group if the room is small and windowless room, the atmosphere can be very stuffy and uncomfortable.
What heating is there?
- Is there adequate heating available in all the rooms?
Is there air conditioning?
- Should you need it, does the venue provide rooms which have it?
Equipment
- Do you need paper, pens and/or pencils?
- Do you need display areas?
- Do you need any audio visual aides?