In-person conferences are returning in force this year, but reduced travel budgets and ever-changing coronavirus rules are creating headaches for planners
There is a growing desire among some lawyers, accountants and other professional-services workers to get back out into the world and start networking. The demand to do so is fueling a shift by conference organizers to a mixture of in-person and hybrid offerings from the largely virtual-only events of the past two years.
Big conferences require ample space for panels, exhibitors and networking events, and convention centers and hotels are often booked years in advance for this purpose. That means many of the events happening in 2022 are in cities and venues chosen well before anyone heard of the novel coronavirus. RIMS is using the Moscone Center to hold its first in-person gathering since 2019. Risk and insurance professionals come to the group’s annual RiskWorld event in March or April to compare notes on industry challenges and listen to sessions on topics ranging from the risks posed by climate change to the finer points of contractual indemnification.
That condition could have prevented some of RiskWorld’s prospective attendees from coming to the conference, including many of those traveling from abroad, RIMS executives said. Only about 18% of people world-wide have received a booster shot, according to government data collected by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford.
RIMS now hopes to have as many as 7,000 people attend the Moscone Center in mid-April, but how many people will actually show up is unclear. Before the pandemic, the annual RiskWorld conference drew crowds of around 10,000, according to the group.
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