Event Farm Expands Partnerships With COVID-19 Testing Companies
February 3, 2022
Event Farm, a MemberSuite company and leading provider of event engagement and safety solutions, announced four new partnerships to expand its event safety offerings and provide event organizers with COVID-19 testing solutions to meet event entry requirements.
The new partnerships with Azova Health, EverlyWell, Prevent System and Qured are in addition to the CLEAR Health Pass and Event Farm partnership that was announced in June 2021 and accelerated Event Farm’s Safety Toolkit, a suite of purposely built applications to keep event staff and attendees safe at in-person events. With CLEAR Health Pass, Event Farm offers a turnkey solution to confirm vaccination status, validate test results and sync event check-in.
Event Farm’s new partnerships come amid rising concern about COVID-19 variants such as Omicron and worldwide shortages of testing kits.
Starting with the most significant pain point, event organizers can now get access to large orders of COVID-19 test kits. Specifically, the partnerships offer a wide range of COVID-19 testing solutions, including self-administered testing kits for attendees with video proctoring for both Antigen and PCR tests as well as on-site testing services.
In addition to unlocking access to millions of testing kits, the move streamlines results gathering for events. Organizers have access to the Event Farm registration platform, allowing them to track testing results of attendees in real time, collect attendee shipping information and send important email and text communications to attendees.
“As we continue to help rebuild the events industry, we’re seeing that COVID-19 vaccinations alone may not be enough to host safe events, and there is an increased need to help attendees and event organizers get access to testing kits and validate results in real time,” said Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm. “Expanding our portfolio of event safety partners to add COVID-19 testing providers is another step forward in fulfilling Event Farm’s mission to bring humans together safely.”
The new group of partners puts the Event Farm Safety Toolkit in a class by itself, according to Costello.
“I have no doubt that we’ll continue to build on the hundreds of thousands of attendees we’ve already safely brought back together,” he said.
For more information on all of Event Farm’s COVID-19 testing solutions, go here.
In addition to event safety solutions, Event Farm provides registration, engagement and experiential solutions designed to promote brands and engage targeted audiences at in-person, virtual and hybrid events.
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