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Survey Results

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Question 1:

When is the soonest you or your company will attend ‘in person’ events such as Tradeshows?

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Question 2:

Do you think you will attend an ‘in person’ tradeshow or similar event in 2021?

Domestic Only

Domestic & International

Face-to-Face Meetings

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Question 3:

Do you think that Virtual Events will replace traditional tradeshows and events?

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Question 4:

Is your company welcoming supplier office visits currently?

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Question 5:

When supplier visits resume, where will you be most likely to meet?

Coffee / Lunch etc.

Walk / Activity etc.

Evening Events

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Question 6:

If your company's team was primarily office based, has this changed, and is this change permanent?

I/We already work remotelyon a permanent basis.

I/We are working remotely indefinitely, with a view to being office based once safe to do so

I/We are based part time in office & remotely

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Sample Additional Comments:

“I so would love to come back to Ireland again! Virtual visits are NOT the same :)”

“I look forward to our industry starting up again! I hope you are all doing well!”

“Key for our travels (site inspections, etc.) is availability of vaccine and out of

country medical insurance

“We anticipate virtual meetings until face2face can resume. Then we will likely have hybrid meetings with

the exception of incentives, which would be in-person as allowed.”

“I am cautiously optimistic. This industry has to get back to work!”

“Better use of virtual meetings, online F2Fmeetings will become everyday use.

The benefits to time savings, the environment,budgets, so many reasons to make better useof virtual and online.However, virtual will never replace Face toFace, in person meetings. I believe F2F willbecome better thought out, with betterresults, and treated as a special event.

The sheer joy of sharing a meal, a beverage, adestination, will drive F2F meetings with aquality not seen to date

“Looking forward to visiting Killarney/Ireland as soon as this clears!”

“Plans for the future are dynamic and rest in large part on the availability of

a successful vaccine and/or therapeutics in order to bring back

confidence of being with other people.”

“Safety is our priority, but we are hopeful things will improve and look

forward to in person meetings.”

“You guys are awesome and we can’t wait to get back to Ireland”

“We are seeing business improve!”

“We are anxious to get back in the office full time but taking slow as our

state dictates.”

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