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Hey folks, this is Alistair from EventMobi. We're here at CMEE, the Canadian Meetings and Events Expo here at the beautiful Metro Toronto Convention Center North building here in Toronto, ON. We're here today to talk to some event planners about what it takes to be a true, true event planner. Let's find out. OK, pick one of these event planner nightmares: Unreliable Wi-Fi forever, incomplete attendee profiles, or sending the wrong push notification in an app during a live event. I would say Wi-Fi is probably the worst. Delegates. They hound you. Oh my God. And God forbid you don't have like free Wi-Fi for one hour of one event, it's game over. I would say the unreliable Wi-Fi. I feel like now in this industry and also like at this this time as well, we just rely on technology and like Wi-Fi so much. I feel like if we don't have Wi-Fi, especially since we incorporate live polling at our events and essentially we just can't use that function. So I think I agree obviously, but for me it's more like sending wrong message or e-mail to the clients just because we have to do a follow up e-mail saying sorry and it's not too professional for our company image. So I've always avoided it, so we always double check things. I'm gonna go with Wi-Fi, 100% Wi-Fi because my push notifications, I can do a recall on. Push notifications, I can recall. But my Wi-Fi if I'm not in, especially nowadays, because every event is having some sort of digital component to it, some sort of hybrid component. And if my Wi-Fi is not good, my streaming is not going to be good. I would go with the last one. Yep, definitely wrong information is bad. Fair enough. There you go. Definitely unreliable Wi-Fi. Now that we work in a hybrid environment, there are people calling in all the time for our events. And so it's important that we think about the experience not only for those people who are in person, but also those that are joining virtually. It would be, I mean all of them are a big nightmare. But if I had to pick the biggest nightmare, it would be that one. Well, I think so much depend upon Wi-Fi right now. So in my mind anyways, and that's one of the things we have at Exhibition Place. Remarkably stable Wi-Fi. Excellent. I would say Wi-Fi, cause I think everything relies on Wi-Fi nowadays, especially with ticketing and just payment in general too. So I would say that yeah. For me #3 because I've done it before. Embarrassing. Yeah. The wrong information now. Yeah, fair enough.