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A sustainable event: RegenERA Local

Client: Client: Impact Hub Consulting

Agency: Impact Hub Events Agency

Offshored production: sustainable event in Santander

RegenERA Local is a hybrid event held in Santander with a large online audience that has shown how to boost the essence of the territories and co-creation to regenerate local economies through entrepreneurship.

Impact Hub's events agency has carried out an advisory, production and accompaniment work from June to November 2023, the date on which the event was held.

Objectives

Proposal and design of the event together with Impact Hub's consulting area to obtain its public funding.
Facilitation of face-to-face connections with the more than 50 local catalyst organizations
Community building among the group to facilitate their further work in the local community

Actions developed

Design and execution of the event together with Impact Hub's consulting area.
Advice on the sustainability of the event
Reception of the 200 participants in the event.
Coordination of the event with the venue (Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander)
Contact and coordination with the 15 local catering, technical and other service providers.
Coordination with the foreign travel organizer and organization of logistics for the pick-up of the attendees.
Hospitality for Impact Hub members, VIP guests and facilitators before and during the duration of the event
Organization of dinners at local restaurants
Use of reusable lanyards from other events
Measurement and analysis of the event's footprint by ECODES
Bridge between the technical part and the facilitators

Impact figures

More than 50 local catalyst organizations
200 people participated on-site
More than 600 virtual participants
More than 40 speakers: 35% international, 65% women
Enabling hackathon for ecosystem agents
Net CO2 event, with maximum standards of sustainability, equity and accessibility. The event generated 13 tons of CO2, with air travel and accommodation being the actions that had the greatest impact (12 tons), as measured by ECODES. The footprint generated was offset by supporting the REDD+ project for the protection of the Mai Ndombe forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.