The German event tech platform chaanz is expanding its presence in the Netherlands and Belgium, with Martijn van de Korput as General Manager Benelux. chaanz provides white-label apps for festivals, venues and events, with real-time matchmaking, geofencing, analytics, sponsor integrations and a community that stays active 365 days a year. The platform connects independently with existing ticketing, CRM and cashless systems. Chaanz works with, among others, FKP Scorpio, GREENTECH Festival, the Zurich Street Parade and Best Kept Secret. “Organisers invest enormously in the experience on site, but contact with visitors often stops after the last act,” says Van de Korput. “With chaanz, the app becomes a place where fans find each other, organisers get to know their audience and sponsors gain relevant visibility.” During Amsterdam Dance Event, chaanz will welcome festival organisers, venues, sports organisations and entertainment companies to the Eventim Hang-Out on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October. You can arrange a meeting via martijn@chaanz.com.

During Student Take-Off in Hasselt, Meerskat got to work for Ethias with a cool ‘roaming’ AI photobooth. Not a traditional photobooth that you have to go to, but two teams of hostesses with an iPad walking around among the students.

Strike a pose, choose from 3 fully branded AI photos and voilà: a unique photo in Ethias’s house style! Anyone who wanted to take a printed photo home could pick it up at the Ethias stand, along with a goodie bag.

The result? An accessible activation that brings students into the experience, helps collect valuable data and draws extra visitors to the stand.

👨‍💻 Cool activation for your company or brand? www.meerskat.be

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Looking for an interactive attraction for your corporate event, trade fair or staff party? With Meerskat’s ‘Live Caricature’, selfies are transformed live into unique digital caricatures on a big screen.

📱 Guests can easily take part via a QR code. Their caricature is drawn and coloured live on screen, growing into a colourful caricature wall. An original combination of entertainment, interaction and branding!

Ideal for corporate events, trade fairs, product launches and private parties.

👉 Discover all the possibilities: https://www.meerskat.be/diensten/live-karikatuur

Fairground in Healthcare

Stepping back in time for a moment. 10 tabletop fairground games at wheelchair height and lollipops at the Old Dutch Candy Stall.

With our Mini Funfair in Healthcare, we create a fun fairground atmosphere in your care center together! We bring games, the Old Dutch Candy Stall, and 4 enthusiastic supervisors. The games include fun skill games and retro carnival rides, among others. Every winner wins a prize! Guaranteed success; the elderly always respond with great pleasure.

This fun bonding activity offers action, competition, and cheerful entertainment for everyone. Fun to watch and fun to actively participate in! A cozy afternoon out at home... Scroll down for all information and more photos.

All games are very easy for your residents to play. And... everyone gets a bag of candy at the Old Dutch Candy Stall.

Click on the link above, and under the heading Entertainment, you can read all about Funfair in Healthcare. An afternoon you definitely should book for your residents!

What are we doing for our team-building this year?

You know how it is. The question comes up at a team meeting, everyone looks your way, and before you know it, you’re the organiser. It has to be fun. Everyone has to take part, including the colleague who’d rather stand in the corner. It definitely can’t be the same as last year. And afterwards, everyone has to say: that was good.

At Moodmaker, we hear that question every day. So we asked ourselves two questions. What makes a team-building activity a good one? And what makes a game a good game?

After more than twenty years, we know the answer to the first: everyone joins in, there’s plenty of laughter, and something stays with you that you’re still talking about at the coffee machine the next day. We found the answer to the second with game designers: a clear goal, real choices, excitement, and always a chance to come back.

Put the two together, and you get Cake Factory. Perhaps the most dynamic and most fun team-building activity in Belgium.

What exactly happens? We’d rather not give that away. Here’s what we can tell you: your team runs its own cake factory. The music is loud, the clock is ticking, and there are colleagues in aprons whom you’ve never seen so focused. The first round is delicious chaos. Then something wonderful happens: the team gets smarter with every round. And anyone who thinks the prize is already in the bag had better take another look at the screen.

The best part comes afterwards. That’s when everyone recognises their own workplace with a smile: the meeting where everyone talks over one another, the choice between fast and good, that colleague who suddenly takes the lead.

Cake Factory is an indoor team-building activity for groups of 10 to 120 people, at your office or at a venue of your choice.

So: what are you doing for your team-building this year? We already have an idea.

Request a proposal with no obligation via info@moodmaker.be

In Brussels, I had the opportunity to deliver an interactive keynote for 120 staff members of the Council of the European Union.

And that was at a special venue: the EB Press Room in the Justus Lipsiusgebouw, a room that usually provides the backdrop for European press events.

Under the title “The Power of Laughter to Face Pressure Together”, this event focused on energy, wellbeing and human connection.

During my keynote, I combined insights into stress and wellbeing with breathing, movement, interaction and, of course, laughing together.

Judging by the enthusiastic reactions afterwards, it was a more than successful keynote! 😄

After twenty years as a laughter coach and more than 35,000 participants, it remains special to bring people together in such varied places.

Looking for an interactive keynote, energiser or laughter workshop for your conference, team day or company event?

Discover what Geert Van De Vijver with Smile at Work can do for your organisation.

Every laugh counts. ❤️