As 2024 draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a truly unforgettable year at Hire Space. From groundbreaking technology to global expansion, this year has been packed with milestones and achievements that we’re proud to share with you. So, grab a festive drink and join us for a look back at what we’ve achieved…
Hire Space 360 Goes Global
This year marked a major milestone as Hire Space 360 expanded to new horizons. With venues added in cities like Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore, planning international events has never been easier. Whether you’re eyeing a vineyard in France or a chic rooftop in Singapore, our platform has it covered—all in just a few clicks.
Find out more about how Hire Space 360 can help you save time and money in 2025 here.
Game-Changing Features
In 2024, we unveiled a suite of cutting-edge tools designed to revolutionise event planning, making it faster, smarter and more efficient than ever before. These innovative features empower event planners to manage more events with less stress, freeing up time to focus on creating even better experiences. Here's how:
Improved Venue Search: Discovering your perfect venue is now easier and more precise than ever. Our upgraded search tool allows you to refine results using a wide range of filters, including luxury level, venue vibe and specific space types. Whether you're searching for “rooftops” or narrowing options with descriptive keywords like "cosy" or "historic," the enhanced search ensures that you get perfectly tailored suggestions. This means faster, smarter matches that align exactly with your event vision.
SMART Cards: Gone are the days of juggling receipts and chasing payments. SMART Cards streamline in-event purchases, offering instant reconciliation to ensure seamless post-event financial tracking. This feature eliminates the headache of expense management, leaving planners free to concentrate on event execution.
AI Event Assistant: Powered by artificial intelligence, this tool is like having a personal event-planning concierge at your fingertips. From discovering venues to finding suppliers, the AI Event Assistant cuts through the back-and-forth, enabling you to book venues in hours rather than weeks.
Instant-Click Proposals: Say goodbye to tedious manual processes and repetitive admin. With instant-click proposals, you can create and share tailored venue proposals in just seconds, making collaboration with stakeholders quicker and more efficient.
Auto-Venue Chasers: No more waiting on slow replies from venues. This feature automates follow-ups with venue partners, tripling your response rate and ensuring you receive proposals overnight—because time is of the essence in event planning!
These new innovations have been game-changers for our clients, enabling them to heighten their event output while cutting down on planning time. Whether you're managing a single event or an entire calendar, these tools are designed to simplify the process and let you focus on what truly matters, creating unforgettable events that leave a lasting impression.
Looking ahead to 2025, we’re committed to building on this momentum with even more tools and enhancements to elevate your event planning experience. Find out more about Hire Space 360 here.
Partnership Power
This year, we collaborated with global brands like Krispy Kreme and EFG Hermes, delivering tailored event solutions that exceeded expectations. Whether it's a fully produced event or just extra boots on the ground, Hire Space ensures every event is flawlessly executed. Our partnership with Encore has further elevated our capabilities, combining their world-class production expertise with our Hire Space 360 service. This seamless integration provides clients with end-to-end event management, from venue sourcing to technical production, ensuring every event is flawlessly executed. We’re proud to have taken event planning to new heights in 2024 and look forward to continuing this momentum into 2025!
Explore our event delivery solutions here.
A Year of Recognition
We were proud finalists at the Event Tech Awards for Best Venue Booking Platform, recognising our commitment to revolutionising the events industry. And to top it off, we secured a patent for our innovative Hire Space 360 technology—making venue discovery faster and smarter than ever before.
Taking the Stage
This year, we hosted the “Let’s Do London” stage at Confex 2024, creating a vibrant platform for industry leaders to tackle some of the most pressing questions shaping the future of events. Across a series of thought-provoking sessions, speakers shared insights on leadership strategies, overcoming challenges in corporate event planning, and innovative approaches to redefining how we work and collaborate in a constantly evolving industry. It was a privilege to bring together such a wealth of expertise, and we’re proud to have played a role in driving innovation and collaboration within the events community.
Check out our panel summaries below:
- Leadership and Management Strategies for Event Leaders: Insights from Confex 2024
- Key Challenges for Corporate Event Planners in 2024 and How to Overcome Them
Hire Space x MeetEngland AI Series
We collaborated with MeetEngland on an innovative blog series exploring how AI is transforming the events industry. From streamlining planning to enhancing creativity, the series highlights the cutting-edge innovations shaping the future of events and underscores our commitment to leading the conversation on event technology.
Here’s the series so far:
- AI and Creative Event Design: New Opportunities for Event Planners
- 6 Weeks to 6 Hours: How AI is Changing How Business Event Planners Book Venues
- AI and Sustainability: How New Technology Can Make Events a Greener Industry
Our next blog in the series will be coming soon, so be sure to keep an eye out on our socials!
Sustainability First
Sustainability has been a driving force this year for the events industry. In collaboration with You. Smart. Thing. and through our partnership with event:decision, we’ve produced high-value content on greener event practices, tackling topics like ESG Initiatives: Optics versus Impact and finding sustainable venues.
The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has also made sustainability essential, requiring detailed metrics on event impacts. We explored the impact this will have on event planners in one of our latest blogs here, and by showcasing eco-friendly options on Hire Space 360, we’re helping event planners make impactful, sustainable choices for their events.
Looking forward to 2025, we’re focused on bringing even more sustainability information and resources directly to event planners on hirespace.com.
Check out our sustainability hub for all our guides and resources here.
Team Highlights
And last, but certainly not least, 2024 wasn’t all work and no play. From epic socials to fun-filled FAM trips, our team spirit has been at an all-time high. We also expanded our Hire Space family with fantastic new team members and settled into our new office space, ready to tackle 2025 with even more energy!
What’s Next?
Looking to 2025, expect even more innovation, global venues and tools designed to make event planning a joy. We’re excited to see what the future holds for the events industry.
From all of us at Hire Space, thank you for being part of our journey. Wishing you a joyful festive season and a brilliant year ahead! Here’s to a successful 2025!
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