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Room preparers: the meeting is also a question of materials

Room preparers: the meeting is also a question of materials

Room preparers: the meeting is also a question of materials

With them, you can move all day, every day of the year! They have a knack for modulating spaces to suit individual needs.
When they're around, meeting rooms whirr in all directions, chairs circulate from hand to hand while tables fold and unfold. The most tangled cables become straight again. Pencils line up in onion rows, and notepads tuck their sheets neatly away. Because the room preparers are uncompromising and in a hurry: sometimes just a few minutes before the big meeting, they literally transform the organization of the room, its "setup", to adapt to the needs of the organizers.
The three boys, Joao, Maxime and Thomas, form a close-knit team, under Guillaume's responsibility. They are in charge of all the room's logistics: allocation of tables and chairs, tidying up, supplies, water, delivery of documents - nothing that contributes to the material success of the meeting escapes them.

Seminars demand flexibility

"We work closely with the Event Managers on a "road-map" to plan the organization of the rooms. We have to make sure that nothing is missing when participants enter. The meeting is also a material issue..." Obviously, seminars demand a great deal of flexibility. "Very often we change the setup during the day because needs have evolved. This means we have to be very organized, because our work sometimes takes place during a break for the participants. When they return... Surprise! The room is transformed. It's easy for customers to make the place their own."
Theater, island, U-shaped... there's no shortage of possibilities for organizing rooms. "On average, we change the setup three times a day. And our 43,000 participants in 2016 always found their rooms ready for their brainstorming."