In 2020, faced with the cancellation of our flagship Haystack US conference due to the pandemic, we worked with the Plain Schwarz team to combine our event with two others (Berlin Buzzwords and MICES) into a week of online talks, workshops and discussions. In only a short time they put together a complete online platform for the event including live streaming solutions and during the event worked tirelessly to make everything run smoothly. Their capacity to adapt to what was a difficult situation very much impressed us all.

Conferences have a lot of moving parts, and it is important to keep all of them moving together. We are a global and virtual organization, so we needed a local partner with a real sense of ownership of the event. Plain Schwarz really understood our needs and translated them into the perfect event. They made it possible for us to focus on the program and to be excellent hosts for our guests and speakers. Working with Plain Schwarz was a real pleasure, and I hope I’ll have the opportunity to do it again.

When we had to turn MICES into a virtual event this year, we could not have made a better decision than to work with Plain Schwarz: Their high level of professionalism and their creativity to cope with this unusual situation became apparent very quickly. What makes Plain Schwarz really special is that we didn’t have to explain to them much about our community – it feels like they have always been part of it!

This year, our annual conference took place as a hybrid event. The main challenge was to create a true conference feeling for our online participants. Plain Schwarz helped us to find interactive formats for our online audience and customized a platform for our individual needs. We could not have made a better choice: Plain Schwarz were thinking ahead at all times and took care of all technical details during our conference. In the weeks leading up to the event, they were highly supportive with all our issues. Not least, their positive energy made the cooperation a lot of fun.