Do you ever wonder what events such as music concerts, sporting events, conferences, etc will look like when we are on the other side of the pandemic? Do you want to know about how event management works and the skills needed to be in this business? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then you are gonna enjoy this episode of Info Under the Radar, where we are talking about all of this and more with our guest Izabela Baša Perša, who is an Event Manager and founder of the event management company called rockin’ events.

As always, feel free to use timestamps to jump around the topics that interest you most:

(00:00) - Intro and our experience organizing events along with the bio of our guest

(07:25) - Welcoming Izabela and how she started working in Event Management

(11:20) - Energy needed to organize a large-scale event and what is a ”conference high”?

(13:55) - Izabela's journey to start her own Event Management company?

(17:45) - How has she and others in the event management space been coping with the pandemic?

(20:00) - What are Hybrid Events?

(21:15) - Similarities/Differences between online, offline & hybrid events

(24:00) - Challenges of networking in online environment and solutions around it

(28:00) - Things which don't work for organizers and attendees in an online event

(32:07) - Apps to use for networking in online events such as Hopin

(34:00) - What is Lunchclub?

(35:05) - New roles evolved in the event management space due to the pandemic

(37:30) - What's the current state of music concerts/live sporting events? Izabela's challenges in organizing the berlin music commission’s event during the lockdown

(42:00) - Difference b/w event manager vs event organizer

(43:25) - Will social distancing in event spaces increase ticket prices?

(47:00) - Pandemic’s effect on event sponsors/partners

(48:40) - Devendra’s experience of attending online standup event as a casual standup comedian himself

(51:15) - Online zoom parties

(52:32) - Are Hybrid/Online events the future of events?

(54:05) - Will technology fundamentally change the future of events for a subset of society?

(56:10) - How to break into event management and challenges associated with the job

(61:52) - Female factor and their conference

(66:45) - Izabela's wish to be a DJ on the stage while other event managers are organizing concerts for her

(69:30) - Our final thoughts on the future of events and our conversation with Izabela

Reach out to us with your comments, suggestions, or critique here:

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Your hosts on Twitter: Devendra(@InDevOut) & Vishwajeet(@vishwajeets3)

Got any questions for our guest?

Reach out to Izabela on her LinkedIn.

Music Credits:

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