Building connections at HIRE23

Providing deeper dives and valuable insights

To those of you who made the trip to Sydney in May for the HIRE23 Convention, it was great to catch up and spend time working on the business and building connections.

This year, our Events workshop was a little different. After listening to feedback from members in last year’s focus group sessions, our workshop was structured to provide a deeper dive into the way other businesses are tackling common issues and challenges we’re all facing. This was a great opportunity to hear first-hand from our events industry peers and provided some incredibly valuable insights.

Joining us on the workshop panel were:

• Rebecca Stoller: No Fuss

• Dan Clifton:1300 Temp Fence

• Jarrod Nation: Salters

• David Duncalfe: Excel Events Hire

With topics ranging from human resources to logistics, warehousing and sales and marketing, it was a jam packed onehour session. As facilitator, I learned a lot!

To our panellists, my sincere thanks for taking the time to participate and share your knowledge and insights. It was a rewarding and valuable session, that’s now provided a great template for Events workshops in years to come. We certainly look forward to planning and delivering a bigger and better workshop for HIRE24 in Brisbane next year.

The Convention also saw two amazing Events companies in the Awards space which was a great result!

• Barlens Events took the win for Hire Company of the Year - Events

• Salters were runners-up for Hire Company of the Year - Events

• Prestige Modular with their product Continest Foldable Buildings won for best New Product – Events.

These are categories where we haven’t seen a lot of activity in past years so this was wonderful to see.

As we look ahead to the next 12 months, it will be an interesting time as the 5.7% wage increase (from July 2023) will certainly impact labour costs for Events companies. We will also have to wait and see what impact rising interest rates has on event spend across the board, both in the corporate and private event market.