Scan Magazine – August 2018

88 | Issue 115 | August 2018

Scan Magazine | Conference of the Month | Norway

Q42 is not only the biggest conference venue in southern Norway, but also has
state-of-the-art amenities and enthusiastic staff, who facilitate top class events,
including big concerts.

By Sunniva Davies-Rommetveit | Photos: Q42 conference centre Kristiansand

Operated by Kristiansand Kongressenter
AS, Q42 is a conference centre blessed
with very Scandinavian traits: cutting-edge
facilities, excellent technological offerings
and accomplished staff. A complex that
also includes a hotel, restaurant, café
and flats, the Kristiansand-based centre
opened in November 2016, and welcomed
175,000 visitors last year.

As well as being the biggest conference
centre in Norway’s Sørlandet (between
the oil town of Stavanger to the west, and
Sandefjord to the east), it is also one of
the most versatile conference halls in
Norway. “We can be very flexible with the

types of events we host — from evening

banquets for up to 450 guests, to all-day

conferences for up to 1,300 attendees, or

concerts for up to 2,000 attendees,” ex-

plains Q42 chief executive Billy Øksendal.

Having room sizes that vary from a ca-

pacity of between ten and 175 people and

up to 1,300 is great for trade fair events,

he adds, because large conferences such

as these “often split into smaller groups

throughout the day, for seminars and

talks in more intimate settings.”

Unrivalled flexibility

It is not only the versatility of Q42’s

spaces that makes it stand out from the

South Norway’s biggest conference centre

crowd, but also its holistic approach to

event management. “We’ve had great

feedback from previous attendees about

both our technological offering and our

events management services,” Øksendal

explains. This versatility is illustrated by

the fact that the centre offers services as

diverse as instrument rental for formal

evening events and a language interpret-

ing service for international conferences.

Such tailored event management ensures

that all events, whether large or small,

run as smoothly as possible. Anything and

everything can be taken care of by Q42

staff — from sending out invitations and

providing essential information before the

event, to administering ticket sales and

registration on the day. This means that

event hosts can “focus more on an event’s

content, as opposed to the logistics of set-

ting it up,” Øksendal adds.

Conference of the Month, Norway