International Media Company

This renowned, international media company held a 3-day senior management meeting in Malta in January. To enhance the programme, the company wanted to organise a "Bourne" style event for the group that would include the use of technology to tie in with the digital media theme of the conference.

Objectives

• Use various sources of technology to solve a mission
• Emphasise the importance of communication between teams
• Encourage team building
• Get to know one another better while having fun

Event detail

Date: January 2009
Venue: Sliema and St Julian's, Malta
Format: Bourne themed Espionage event to tie in with a 3-day conference
Guests: 36 senior managers from UK, Poland, Hungary, Africa

Outline

The afternoon kicked off with the mission brief presented in a short film recorded the previous week by one of the company's senior managers. The participants were issued with bespoke, Bourne themed T-shirts and divided into "spy cells" before starting their mission with a casino style challenge at the hotel. In Sliema, the spy cells followed a contact schedule and met agents at quirky locations around the town. The agents set cryptic clues which had to be solved in return for key information. In addition, teams made use of technology by:

• Receiving time-bound clues by text message
• Uploading information onto social networking sites
• Using the internet
• Using an especially created website

Scores were announced and prizes presented the following day, and the group was treated to a slide show of images taken by the event photographer.

Feedback

"As for the event itself, thank you and the team ever so much, it was a great experience and was really well organised and everyone our end was both happy and impressed with the activity. Thanks for putting it together in such a short space of time."

 
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