Hosting an online virtual event can be quite challenging even for experienced event organizers that used to work exclusively with in-person events. One of the biggest challenges in hosting the virtual event is keeping your attendees interested and engaged, and this is why in this article we’ll share 15 virtual event ideas to inspire your next virtual events.
Top 15 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event
Let’s start.
1. Virtual Trip
You can arrange virtual trips by sharing live footage of the “destination” while also allowing your attendees to enjoy traditional foods and beverages from the destination country. Incorporate minigames like language lessons, trivia about the destination country, and more.
2. Virtual Escape Room
You can use video conferencing platforms like Zoom and others to conduct virtual escape room events. A bit challenging to organize since you’ll need to go beyond the traditional event organizing necessities: writing a compelling story, developing puzzles, hiding clues, and so on. However, can be extremely worth it for team-building activities.
3. Virtual Game Show
A great virtual event type you can incorporate in various occasions: virtual birthday parties, as an entertainment in-between meetings, in team-building events, and so so on. You can copy popular game shows like Who Wants To Be a Millionaire to the Price is Right to create a virtual event full of fun and engaging activities.
4. Virtual Improv Comedy Show
You can either hire a professional improv comedy performer or ask your attendees to prepare their improv comedy performances beforehand. Obviously getting your attendees to laugh is one of the best ways to keep them engaged, and hosting a virtual improv night can be a very cost-effective type of virtual event to get some fun together.
5. Virtual Museum Tour
You can partner with your local museum to host a virtual museum tour. Virtual tour means you can eliminate the hassle of noisy children on museum trips, as well as the long queue. Thus, a virtual museum tour can in fact be more fun and engaging than your traditional trip to the museum. You can also employ a professional guide and host an interactive Q&A session.
6. Virtual Scavenger Hunt
A simpler version of a virtual escape room, you can hide clues and design puzzles for a fun and interactive team-building virtual event. Can be very effective in building teamwork, and also helping your team members to better understand their teammates. You can host a scavenger hunt as a standalone event or as an additional event within a virtual meeting, webinar, or conference.
7. Virtual Cooking Class
Partner with a professional chef to host a virtual cooking class, or probably a professional mixologist for a cocktail class. This can be a very fun and productive type of virtual event, where your attendees can interact and network with other participants, while you can also provide a chance for them to learn new potentially valuable skills.
You can expand this idea with other types of training and educational classes. If necessary, you can send the training modules and kits in advance so that the attendees have everything they need for this class.
8. Online Movie Night
This one is a fairly simple type of virtual event to organize, but can be very fun and engaging. Get your attendees to vote on a selection of movies and watch at the same time over a Zoom call. Or, you can simply organize it so that every attendee will start at the same time and join a group chat to discuss as they watch the movie together.
9. Online Video Game Tournament
There are various online multiplayer and eSports games that you can use in this type of virtual event. You can, for example, host an online tournament with the entry fee being the prize for the winner.
10. Virtual Speed Networking
Think speed dating, just professional and virtual. Virtual speed networking allows attendees to interact with each other by pairing them in private virtual rooms for a limited time. After this short amount of time, we will rotate them to ensure the attendees can network with as many people as possible.
This type of event can allow attendees to meet new people and potential partners without the hassle of traffic and physically moving between tables as in sped dating. Organizing this type of event is also fairly simple: simply set a time for attendees to join the event, create private virtual rooms, and you are good to go.
11. Virtual Concert
This one is pretty self-explanatory: book your artists and start your virtual concert. However, when planning a virtual concert, it’s crucial to plan the production carefully so that it will accommodate the virtual environment. Simply streaming a live video of a concert won’t work, but instead, you should plan how you can create immersion and user experience.
12. Virtual Photo Booths
You can integrate the virtual photo booth to virtually any other event: virtual conference, webinar, or even a simple internal virtual meeting. There are various virtual photography solutions that can help you in creating this type of event, and most of them offer customizable and easily shareable photos.
13. Virtual Exhibition Hall
Great if you want to attract more sponsors. You can create virtual 3D booths with various tools, allowing attendees to browse the virtual booths just like a traditional expo. You can allow attendees to interact with the booths like watch interactive videos, chat with exhibitors, and of course, make an online purchase.
14. Sponsored Sessions
You can custom tailor your event’s content for your sponsors, allowing the sponsors to have their own content that also aligns well with the event’s theme. Having this type of sponsored session can be crucial in securing more sponsorships for your virtual events.
15. 360-Degree Tour
Great for showcasing properties, schools, businesses, and even your virtual exhibition halls. Virtual 360-degree tours can also be great in hybrid events where you also hold an offline portion of the event in an actual venue.
Conclusion:
While you can incorporate various different virtual event ideas for your next online event, how you plan these online events remains important. As we know, organizing virtual events has its own unique challenges when compared to traditional events. This is where having a platform capable of handling virtual events like Eventtia is crucial in helping you organize and hosting your virtual events. Virtual events are definitely here to stay, and you can use the virtual event ideas we’ve shared above as your starting point in planning your next big online event.
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