Navigator

An industry in flux

The demand to deliver more sustainable and responsible events is something we all feel.  

Travel planning, carbon calculation, waste reduction, sustainable sourcing, and social responsibility are all finding their way onto our ever-expanding to-do lists.

Juggling multiple competing factors is all in day’s work for an event professional. Yet it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by sustainability, responsibility and ESG reporting. 

And it can be hard to know where to even start.

You're not alone. The entire industry is stepping up by acknowledging its impact on people and planet with every meeting and event organised.

We're proud to be supporting this shift by giving frontline event professionals like you the tools you need to navigate this complex journey.

One step at a time

event:decision exists to help you improve the industry we’re so proud to be part of. We’re helping over 200 event teams across the globe as they move towards producing more sustainable and responsible events.  

Whilst being at the heart of this rapid change we’ve learned that one thing stays the same: there’s no such thing as the perfectly sustainable event. 

Some perform more highly than others. And we know that improving each and every time - even by the smallest of increments - is how we all win.  

That’s why we created tools that let you measure the baseline impacts and successes of your events, allowing you to benchmark your performance and take your first steps on your own journey of continual improvement. 

Navigator has been created by the event professionals at event:decision for corporate event professionals. This simple guide will help you chart your own journey to better.  

 With our help you'll soon be enjoying:

  • A detailed picture of the carbon footprint of your events
  • Tips to reduce your event carbon emissions
  • Responsible event benchmarking scorecards
  • Access to a host of sustainable, ethical, and community positive suppliers
  • Demonstrable data-backed evidence to illustrate your teams efforts in delivering sustainable and responsible events
  • The right tools

    for you, your team & the planet

    We offer a range of services for event professionals. The navigator pathway utilises Track and Impact, our two most popular and established tools, which offer you everything you need to plot your way to more responsible events. 

    Track: Hassle free carbon reporting  

    Track allows us to measure and report the carbon footprint of your events so you don’t have to. 

    It can be used pre-event to aid planning, or post-event to help you report and reconcile your carbon use.  

    Unlike other carbon reporting tools there’s no time-sapping data input for you or your team. All you need to do is upload some key event documents, and we do the rest. It’s that simple.  

    We then issue a thorough, succinct report which details your carbon footprint, industry benchmarking, event specific recommendations and offset value.

    We do the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to. 

    Track is also the only carbon tool to include a simple travel planning function, which allows you create personalised low-carbon journeys for both your crew and delegates. 

    Click here for a simple user guide to Track.

    Beyond carbon

    While reducing emissions is vital, carbon is just one piece of the puzzle.  

    Sustainability is multifaceted: it includes biodiversity, social equity, waste reduction, circular economy principles, and community engagement. Events have the unique power to influence behaviour and policy by showcasing this broader vision in action. 

    Impact: Responsible Event Review  

    Impact is a revolutionary responsibility assessment tool that allows you to review your events against a wide range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.  

    It offers you the opportunity to understand how well you are delivering your event, and compare your performance with that of your peers. 

    The review generates a scorecard for each event which validates your efforts whilst benchmarking your performance against your peers, by region, industry sector, or event-type.  

    As well as offering a powerful marker of your event’s performance, Impact offers you actionable real-time guidance and instant improvement via groundbreaking responsible suppliers embedded throughout.

    Click here for simple user guide to Impact.

    Starting your journey

    Looking at your event programme as a whole and utilising a combination Track and Impact reporting you’re able to build a detailed picture of your event programme performance to share with your team, with stakeholders, auditors or simply chart your journey to more sustainable and responsible events.  

    We recommend you select between three and six of your highest profile events as your baseline carbon benchmark by requesting Track reports on each. 

    Review the same events with Impact, ideally adding twice as many to the review set to gauge performance over as wide a variation of event types as possible.  

    Navigate your way to multiple benefits  

    As well as the satisfaction of staring your journey to better events for people and planet, you’ll get tangible demonstrable evidence of your progress and a wealth of data that will help you and your team continually improve: 

    • A full understanding of the carbon significance of your largest, most visible events, as well as industry benchmarking and tips to reduce carbon output event-by-event. 
    • Event-by-event benchmarking on responsible delivery to support your company’s own responsible business proposition.  
    • Real-time in-tool guidance on the best sustainable planning tactics in the industry. 
    • Embedded sustainable, ethical and community-positive supply chain suggestions. 
    • Responsible event benchmarking scorecards as well as benchmarking within your sector, event type and region. 
    • A comprehensive picture of your team’s performance in delivering sustainable and responsible events. 

    In short, you’ll have all the evidence you need to be proud of your event sustainability efforts.  

    We'll make your first steps even easier

    with a bespoke package tailored to your needs

    At event:decision we’re all seasoned event people. We’ve been there, done that and worn out the t-shirt.  

    We know every event program is different which is why we’re offering to create a bespoke pilot package for everyone on the Navigator corporate events pathway. 

    Simply reach out to us and we’ll design and quote the perfect package, tailored to your unique needs, to get you up and running.  

    You’ll soon be making those all-important incremental improvements with clarity and simplicity whilst en route to turning your entire event program into a force for good.  

    Drop us an email, a WhatsApp or pop a meeting in our diaries.

    We’re here to help you navigate your own journey to better.  

    Matt

    Matt is our founder, CEO and all-round event sustainably guru. He’s powered by Diet Coke and the desire to improve our industry event by event.

    Emma

    Emma is our carbon expert and the dynamo driving our Track reporting. She can make a barista level latte with one hand whilst accurately calculating your event footprint with the other.  

    Laura

    Laura is our walking directory of event responsibility. Holding a masters in Global Challenges, she provides the passion behind the purpose that powers our Impact reports.  

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    Scan the QR code to WhatsApp us and begin your bespoke journey to more responsible events.