Artificial Intelligence. AI. Automation. Words that appear almost everywhere. You go to the grocery store and find an AI-based self-checkout more sophisticated than anything you’ve ever seen. AI is listing your groceries and according to many, about to take all of our jobs. Well, that’s not what this blog is about. In the event management space, artificial intelligence is creating ripples of positive, upwards movement. Event professionals get to automate tasks that were previously tedious and impossible to work through without losing one’s mind. There are these AI tools for event planners that aren’t usurping any meaningful jobs. The human intent, the core purpose and objectives of the event, the things that make the event or conference truly yours is something that AI will be unable to replicate. Not now, not ever. Event management is a human business that caters to a human audience. So for as long as you are not expecting to host a conference for a bunch of humanoid robots, one can ascertain that the job of event planners shall remain important. And needed.
