Event Experience

Ashley Jenkins, Meg Fasy, and Brent Turner discuss fresh strategies and get guidance for attracting new event sponsors and retaining current ones.

Kelly Hoey dismantles everything you thought you knew about event networking in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Julius Solaris, Alon Alroy, and Nicola Kastner sit down for a lively discussion about the event industry's most pressing issues.

Monique Ruff-Bell, Tania Capaz, and Paul McAvinchey join Kyana Shamloo to look back at the past six months of in-person events and explore what the future holds.

Devin and Daphne discuss the new role of the Event Experience Leader and the skillset needed to thrive in the evolving events environment.

Candina and Liz discuss building intention into every stage of the attendee journey. You'll learn digital and event design strategies to grow your audience and enhance the experience from beginning to end.

In this episode, we talk with Julius Solaris, one of the most influential people in the events industry, well-followed for his research and analysis. He has founded several companies, including EventMB, which was acquired by Skift in 2019 and recently rebranded as Skift Meetings. Solaris is the founder of Boldpush, a management consulting agency for the event industry. He is a frequent keynote speaker at events all over the world.

Here's what you'll hear about in this conversation:

• The status of in-person events and the importance of staying nimble amid ongoing uncertainty
• How to use data to be more strategic and intentional about your in-person events
• Why content is the key to delivering successful hybrid events
• Web3, the metaverse, and the massive opportunity for events

• Julius Solaris on LinkedIn
• Julius Solaris (@tojulius) on Twitter
• Boldpush

In this episode, we talk with Bizzabo's Rachel Heller about how to champion DE&I at every stage of your event plan.

Rachel Heller is an event content professional with more than a decade of experience working in the technology space on events ranging from 50 to 50,000 attendees.

Heller leads content strategy for Bizzabo-hosted events and contributes to programming for additional thought leadership initiatives. She is a member of the Event Content Council and has held event content strategy roles at Sage Intacct and PTC. She is passionate about crafting diverse, equitable, and inclusive speaker lineups and providing attendees with engaging content.

Here's what you'll hear about in this conversation:

• How to ensure DE&I hits every corner of your event strategy
• How to choose a diverse and inclusive speaker lineup
• How to ensure your event is a reflection of your attendees
• Simple ways to get started weaving inclusion into your event

• "How To Build a Diverse Speaker Lineup for Your Event"
• The Guide To Building a DE&I-Driven Event Strategy
• The Event Experience Summit
• Black Speakers Collection
• Innovation Women
• Shine Bootcamp
• Global Diversity CFP Day
• The Women/Womxn, Black, Indigenous, POC, and Inclusivity Speaker Initiative
• Women Talk Design
• Event Leadership Institute DEI Strategist Certification
• Gender Avenger
• Speeko
• Yoodli

In this episode, we talk with Ryan Schefke and Brad Froese about new ways to increase engagement at events.

Ryan Schefke is the Founder and CEO of Captello, a premier end-to-end lead capture and event engagement software platform.

Brad Froese is a marketing professional with over 20 years of experience in network television, public speaking, magazine publication, non-profit, and SaaS marketing.

Here's what you'll hear about in this conversation:

• Overcoming the challenges of engagement at events before the pandemic
• Capturing leads via engagement activations at events
• Rethinking how to increase engagement at events in the future

• Captello Arcade
• The Event Squad Cast

In this episode, we talk with Orson Francescone of The Financial Times about building community through strategic events and investing in a digital-first event approach.

Francescone has worked in the B2B media and events industry for more than 15 years. He has led global conference and exhibitions businesses for Euromoney Institutional Investor, and Haymarket Media Group. Since November 2019, he has been managing director of FT Live, the global event business of the Financial Times.

Throughout his career, Francescone has specialized in enabling publishers to monetize their content and drive high-margin revenues via all event formats, from conferences to awards ceremonies to large-scale exhibitions and trade shows and, more recently, digital events. He has launched some of the world's most successful and award-winning events, including Gastech, the Festival of Work, and, more recently, The Global Boardroom.

Here's what you'll hear about in this conversation:

• Building community through strategic events
• Pivoting event strategy throughout the pandemic
• Executing a webinar with 6,000 registrations in just five days
• Supporting a team while shifting from in-person to virtual events
• Investing in a digital-first approach to events