Sands China hosted yesterday the MICE & Luxury Forum as part of the three-day event, “The Macao Showcase”, in Singapore, the resort operator said in a statement.
The statement noted that the forum took place at Marina Bay Sands’ Sands Expo & Convention Centre in conjunction with a hybrid format in a sub venue at The Londoner Macao.
The event, the statement said, had a lineup of “international thought leaders” and MICE specialists discussing the latest trends and key issues in the industries across five sessions such as “Luxury Hospitality: The New Playbook for Building Guest Experiences”, “Technology in Events: How to Navigate the Journey Ahead?”, and “Meetings & Events in a Post Pandemic World: Status Quo or A New Game?”
During the hybrid event, the statement pointed out, students from
the University of Macau (UM), Macao Polytechnic University (MPU), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) and City University of Macau, along with various MICE association members, attended the forum virtually via Smart Stage, Macau’s first hybrid meeting space and “Extended Reality” (XR) studio.
According to the statement, Smart Stage used cutting-edge technology to enable the Macau audience to interact with panellists and attendees in Singapore in real time, adding that the experience gave them a platform to “learn from the industry’s brightest minds and keep abreast of the latest trends”.
The hybrid MICE & Luxury Forum is the company’s latest initiative to “further its cooperation with tertiary institutions and industry associations to help nurture the growth of local youth, incubate much-needed talent for large-scale meetings and conferences to be hosted in Macau, and add to Macau’s pool of human resources”.
Sands owns integrated resorts both in Macau and Singapore.
This handout photo taken and provided by Sands China yesterday shows speakers at the MICE & Luxury Forum as part of the three-day event, “The Macao Showcase”, in Singapore.
