Committed to MultiPOD Brilliance
IACC MultiPOD Meeting Explained

“Meeting professionals are desperate for solutions that help participants engage with one another in regional ways. IACC MultiPOD Meeting approach removes the barriers presented by global travel restrictions on the part of organisations and governments and enables local events to connect with each other via technological solutions.”
The IACC Difference
IACC Certified Venues:
- Offer optimal acoustic & light levels in meeting rooms
- Have premium dedicated meeting rooms
- Offer comprehensive technology packages, often built into meeting rooms
- Have robust and high bandwidth internet
- Have an expert team providing AV/IT support staff services
IACC MultiPOD Meeting Pledge
IACC MultiPOD Meeting: The Advantages
For Event Attendees:
- Convenience, less time traveling
- Reduced cost to attend through less travel, making the meeting more affordable and open to more to attend.
- The compact format allows for deeper relationship building between attendees
- Attendees gain a broad outreach to other locations – Offers a unique experience
- Both opportunities for live networking, as well as on-line networking with people further afield
- Easy interaction and co-creation, both in groups, between groups and between individuals
For the Meeting Professional Arranging the Meeting:
- Less travel, less time commitment for attendees
- Lower cost potentially as a result of reduced distance travel
- Potential for more attendees as a result of reduced cost, travel and time commitment
- Potentially less cost for presenters and speakers travel
- Avoids the complexities of health measures for larger group gatherings
- Smaller sustainability footprint
- Lower risk of food waste associated with smaller groups
- Broad outreach to other locations
- Offering participants intimacy in their own POD
- Easy interaction and co-creation, securing participant engagement
- Unique participant experience
- High quality standardisation between POD’s
- Embrace regional uniqueness of each POD’s location
- Easy multiple venue sourcing process supported by IACC
- Working with venue teams who are interconnected in the planning process
- IACC endorsed hybrid technology providers
- Venues collaborate with each offer the best hybrid meeting technology platform
- Venues collaborate on details such as event timings, break and mealtimes
- Ability to strengthen the ‘one-event’ concept through inter-POD audience participation and gamification
Arranging an IACC MultiPOD Meeting
Visit IACC’s dedicated web site and let us know the dates and POD locations required.
Is Your Venue Ready to Host MultiPOD Meetings?
Get by with a little help from your friends –
IACC is proud to support the multi-location audio visual and technology services of the following companies specialising in Europe and the Americas.
Europe AV/IT/Production Partner Abbit Meeting Innovators
Americas AV/IT/Production Partner Encore
IACC approved supplier, Electro-Media (EMD) provides technology consulting services tailored to the needs of IACC member facilities, globally. The ability to host and support hybrid meetings will be a high priority need in the short-term and will continue to be a component of meetings and events well into the future. Partnering with IACC, EMD has committed to supporting the IACC MultiPOD initiative to lead the industry in providing venues that meet this requirement. See what they can offer you: EMD MultiPOD offer (PDF)