Event Tech Podcast

By Endless Events

What's Event Tech Podcast about?

Event Tech Podcast is the premiere place for event profs to stay in the know about the latest and most innovative tech. Join us for a thought-provoking journey on how tech can evolve our industry.

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Event Tech Podcast episodes:

05.08.2023
uRequest Live: Unleashing the Power of Audience-Driven Events
Imagine an event where the audience takes the reins, curating the perfect musical experience by making real-time requests and communicating with the band. Today, we're thrilled to introduce you to uRequest Live, a groundbreaking platform that does exactly that. In...
04.24.2023
#EventProfs: Our New Community Platform
The #EventProfs community is a strong network of event professionals who’ve come together worldwide to share their ideas and insights and seek support in the ever-evolving event industry. Our thriving community includes event planners, marketers, sponsors, technology providers, and more,...
04.03.2023
Let’s Revisit: ChatGPT and Other AI Technology You Need to Know
Unlike the Metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. Will and Brandt published the ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Other AI Tools You Need to Know at the end of February 2023. After only a few weeks and many headlines later, they’re...
03.06.2023
Cybersecurity for Event Planners: How to Protect Your Events
In 2022, the United States saw 1,774 data breaches. And while 1,774 might not sound jaw-dropping, those breaches impacted an estimated 422,143,312 people. Cybersecurity for event planners is a recurring theme on the podcast because cyber threats are never-ending and...
02.20.2023
Chat GPT, Dall-E, and Other AI Tools You Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have dominated the headlines lately. And tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E have artists and writers sounding alarms about job security. So, what does this have to do with the events industry? In this episode of...
02.06.2023
8 Tips for Handling Reduced Event Budgets
As we continue to transition out of the pandemic and into 2023, the effects of economic downturn, layoffs, and budget cuts are felt across the tech industry. And with record-breaking inflation, it’s no surprise many event professionals are forced to...
01.23.2023
Will People Change Their Lifestyle for VR Events?
As event professionals, we’re always looking to explore new methods, techniques, and technologies to make each event better than the last. Virtual reality (VR) is a topic we often discuss on the Event Tech podcast and has been a technology...
01.09.2023
Is this the an Answer to ”No Good Event Management Software?”
Event management software can potentially make an event planner’s job more efficient. But when the right software doesn’t exist, planners are left to fend for themselves, often lacking solutions. In July, we discussed this exact issue in the episode, Why...
12.19.2022
How to Work with Event Translation Services
Event translation and transcription are a segment that’s been on the rise in recent years. Will and Brandt discussed the increase of booths for these services at IMEX Frankfurt and IMEX America. As a result, in this Event Tech podcast...
12.05.2022
Where Does the Event Tech Podcast Go From Here?
We're doing things a bit differently on this episode of the Event Tech podcast. Rather than covering a "new topic," we're checking in with you, our listeners, and readers and evaluating whether we should change anything about the podcast. So...
11.21.2022
The Future of Events and Event Industry Trends: What’s Next?
According to Forbes, in-person events increased by 255% from the 4th quarter of 2021 to the second quarter of 2022. Still, as we move into 2023, more and more companies announce layoffs, spending freezes, and low metrics. And these are...
11.07.2022
The IMEX America 2022 Recap
IMEX is one of the most significant events for the events industry, not just in the States but globally. And after a long few years, a massive return to in-person events in 2022, and a looming recession, the IMEX America...
10.31.2022
What Would We Have Changed in Event Tech in the Last Two Years?
A lot has changed about the world in recent years. It’s not always helpful to ruminate on what we should have done, but today Will and Brandt do precisely that. In this episode of the Event Tech podcast, the tech...
10.03.2022
Layoffs and Consolidation in the Events Industry
As layoffs continue to make headlines across industries, the events industry is also bracing itself for an economic downturn. More and more companies in the events industry announce layoffs, downsizing, and consolidations each week. According to Brandt, the industry should...
09.15.2022
6 Data Protection Security Tips Following Marriott’s Data Breach
This year, a Marriott data breach has made headlines again. It’s 2022, and the world is no stranger to poor data protection. Every year, the events industry and event professionals handle data for millions of people. It’s our responsibility to...
08.26.2022
Our Learnings on Building an Event Community
Building an online community can take years of hard work. That’s why Endless Events’ very own Will Curran and Kyle Kosinski created the #EventProfs community. They’re on a mission to build and grow a community from the ground up so...
08.22.2022
The Future of AR for Events in 2022
Augmented reality (AR) has the potential to revolutionize how we live our lives, but are we there yet? Will and Brandt are excited to see just how revolutionary AR will be for events. In today’s episode, Will Curran and Brandt Krueger...
08.08.2022
Event Chatbots and the Community Model in 2022
Event chatbots are becoming increasingly common in the event industry. While chatbots are helpful when engaging communities during events, they can also be an excellent tool if you want to implement the community model and engage your attendees all year. Today, Will, Brandt, and Kyle...
07.26.2022
The IMEX Frankfurt 2022 Recap
Fresh off the plane, Brandt Krueger returns to us from the IMEX event in Frankfurt, Germany. Unfortunately, Will wasn't in attendance this year. That's why, in today's episode, Brandt gives him a full recap on this year's event. In a global...
07.21.2022
It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Event Tech Stack
Like the software industry, the event management industry has tech stacks. Event tech stacks consist of all the technology that helps an event run efficiently. Event planners often forget to consider whether their tools are suitable for the job and their budget...
07.14.2022
Why Is There No Good Event Management Software?
The event management industry lacks robust software designed for the unique needs of the event management industry. Many event planners rely on tools not made for the industry and attempt to find alternative solutions for the tasks they must accomplish. In today's...
06.29.2022
Why Event Technology Companies Lack Pricing Transparency
Pricing transparency in event technology companies is lacking, to say the least. Many event platforms offer no pricing structures at all while others only give ballpark estimates. As a recent Skift Meetings article points out, event planners often have no...
06.13.2022
10 Event Technology Trends: Hot Or Hype?
Today's episode of the Event Tech Podcast was inspired by a recent Event Leadership Institute summit where Brandt and Will did a fast rundown on ten event technology trends. For each of them, they had to quickly decide whether they...
05.31.2022
The Current State Of Event Technology Labor
Between the brain drain in the events industry and labor shortages, the event technology labor has transformed dramatically. And not for the better: event planners are finding it increasingly hard to hire reliable and experienced vendors at a reasonable price. Those...
05.16.2022
Why Peloton Can Do Hybrid Events, And You Can’t
In this week's Event Tech Podcast episode, Will and Brandt discuss Peloton because, as it turns out, their workouts make for a great hybrid event case study. They claim that event planners should take note. After all, the world-famous exercise...
05.02.2022
Event Notifications: How To Best Notify Attendees?
There are many ways to send out event notifications: via email, SMS, private messaging apps, and event platforms. And as we embrace event technology as the base of our events, they're becoming increasingly more important. How we communicate with our...
04.18.2022
The Digital Divide: Will The Rush To The Metaverse Leave People Behind?
The Event Tech Podcast is often so excited about all the innovation, new event platforms, and other event tech solutions on the market that we forget to talk about the digital divide in the events industry. Let's face it: most...
04.04.2022
Matchmaking Services: twine Acquired Glimpse
The Event Tech Podcast hosts believe that event technology is an amazing foundation for events. Numerous data insights, continuous audience engagement, and endless sponsorship opportunities - what's not to love? Today, they discuss yet another amazing event technology solution: data-based...
03.21.2022
Event Platform Case Study: Meet Remo!
Every now and then, the Event Tech Podcast reviews a certain product or service. This week, Brandt and Endless Events' Kyle Kocinski do a case study on Remo, one of the top 22 event platforms to use in 2022. The...
03.07.2022
Why Customer Support Should Be Your #1 Event Tech Feature
When we talk about the most popular event platform features, we typically think of registration and ticketing, integrations, gamification, and analytics reporting, for example. But what good are any of those if event planners are not taught how to use...
02.23.2022
Engagement & Networking At Events With Mark Herschberg!
Events are not simply about delivering valuable content and giving people some time to speak to each other. No - the magic of events lies in the overall experience your audience has. Today's Event Tech Podcast guest knows this even...
02.07.2022
Brandt & Will’s Event Technology Trends 2022
This week's Event Tech Podcast episode is a little bit different. Rather than having a regular conversation about event technology, Will and Brandt are sharing the contents of a session they led at the FICP Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona...
01.24.2022
Event Tech Mergers & Acquisitions: A Double-Edged Sword
Last week, the Event Tech Podcast hosted Kyle Kocinski as a guest of honor and went over event technology trends and predictions for 2022. Today, the dynamic tech duo picks up where they left off last week, focusing on one...
01.10.2022
New Year, New Ideas: Event Tech Predictions For 2022
Can you believe it? It's 2022! And what better way to kick off a new year than with an event tech predictions episode? As our most loyal listeners know, Will and Brandt love to make educated guesses about the events...
12.20.2021
The Art Of Maintaining Eye Contact With The Camera
It's almost 2022! By now, most of us have attended more virtual events than we can count and gotten used to the concept of remote work. While successfully joining a Zoom call used to be considered a success in itself,...
12.06.2021
Here‘s How To Rank & Choose An Event Platform!
As listeners of the Event Tech Podcast already know, choosing the right event platform is one of the most important decisions event planners can make for their long-term event strategy. Last week, the Endless Events team published the list of...
11.08.2021
Event Staffing: Event AV Is NOT A One Person Job!
It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the Event Tech Podcast! Will is really excited to talk about event staffing today. It's a topic that he's talked about in the past, from dissecting AV proposals at the...
10.25.2021
Scope Creep In The Events Industry: When Client-Pleasing Goes Too Far
Halloween is upon us, which means it's time for the Event Tech Podcast to cover a truly spooky topic: scope creep. See, it even has the word 'creep' in it! So, what does it mean? When your project's vision and...
10.11.2021
Stepping Up The Game: Here‘s Why You Need To Look Better On Camera
It's been 18 months since many event profs first encountered Zoom. Back then, turning on the laptop camera and joining the call successfully was already considered a huge success. But as time went by, the standards for virtual event production...
09.27.2021
Meet Accelevents, The All-In-One Event Management Platform!
What better way to learn more about the exciting world of event technology than listening to an awesome product spotlight episode of the Event Tech Podcast? Today, Will and Brandt bring two guests in to hear an unbiased review of...
09.13.2021
Facebook As A Metaverse Company: Implications For The Events Industry
It's Monday and there's no better way to kick off a week than with a brand new episode of Event Tech Podcast. These days, Will and Brandt are bringing in exciting guests to talk about the hottest trends in event...
08.30.2021
Consistency Is Key: Better Brand Management With Astute Review!
Every once in a while, our hosts Will and Brandt love to bring guests to the Event Tech Podcast and have them talk about an exciting technology or software they've developed. In September 2020, for example, we had the opportunity...
08.04.2021
From Button Boxes To Chats: Audience Response Systems Through Time!
One of the hottest topics in the events industry nowadays is hybrid and virtual audience engagement. But as the Event Tech Podcast highlights today, you can't really talk about audience engagement without including audience response systems in the conversations. After...
07.19.2021
Your Event App Doesn't Have AI, It Has Predictive Analytics!
Brandt and Will are on a futuristic roll! In the last Event Tech Podcast episode, they talked about face recognition technology in events. And since nothing gets tech nerds riled up more than AI, they'll be talking about AI in...
07.06.2021
Facial Recognition: From Disney Parks To The Events Industry!
What's up, Event Tech Podcast listeners? Today's episode is perfect for all fans of Westworld and Blade Runner. Will and Brandt will talk about facial recognition at Disney Parks and events in general. Why Disney? They have always pushed the...
06.21.2021
Keeping It Safe: Better Post-COVID Events With CrowdPass!
Just three months ago, event profs were wondering whether it was too soon to lift restrictions and go back to in-person events. While they were skeptical back then, we are glad to say that the era of post-COVID events is...
06.07.2021
Everything You Need To Know About Hybrid Event Staff!
The two hottest topics in the ever-evolving events industry right now are the long-awaited return to in-person events and hybrid events. But as our hosts Will and Brandt have said time and time again, it's not about going back to...
05.24.2021
The Wave Of The Future: Hybrid & Virtual Event Platforms With Kyle Kocinski!
Today's an exciting day for the Event Tech Podcast! Our resident hosts, Will and Brandt, welcome a guest to talk about virtual and hybrid event platforms. Dear listeners, please welcome the knowledgeable Kyle Kocinski, the head of implementation at Endless...
05.10.2021
Starlink In Events: New Possibilities For Remote Venues
In today's episode of Event Tech Podcast, Will Curran and Brant Krueger talk about one of the most exciting new technologies in the world, or shall we say universe: Starlink. Last year, Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the innovative broadband internet...
04.26.2021
Why You Shouldn’t Care About Event Platforms Getting Investments
Event app platforms have been all the rage for quite some time now in the world of event tech, so it's only natural that investments in event platforms come next. Hopin, the 2019 London-based start-up, is considered a unicorn among...

What's Event Tech Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Event Tech Podcast episodes:

uRequest Live: Unleashing the Power of Audience-Driven Events

#EventProfs: Our New Community Platform

Let’s Revisit: ChatGPT and Other AI Technology You Need to Know

Cybersecurity for Event Planners: How to Protect Your Events

Chat GPT, Dall-E, and Other AI Tools You Need to Know

8 Tips for Handling Reduced Event Budgets

Will People Change Their Lifestyle for VR Events?

Is this the an Answer to ”No Good Event Management Software?”

How to Work with Event Translation Services

Where Does the Event Tech Podcast Go From Here?

The Future of Events and Event Industry Trends: What’s Next?

The IMEX America 2022 Recap

What Would We Have Changed in Event Tech in the Last Two Years?

Layoffs and Consolidation in the Events Industry

6 Data Protection Security Tips Following Marriott’s Data Breach

Our Learnings on Building an Event Community

The Future of AR for Events in 2022

Event Chatbots and the Community Model in 2022

The IMEX Frankfurt 2022 Recap

It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Event Tech Stack

Why Is There No Good Event Management Software?

Why Event Technology Companies Lack Pricing Transparency

10 Event Technology Trends: Hot Or Hype?

The Current State Of Event Technology Labor

Why Peloton Can Do Hybrid Events, And You Can’t

Event Notifications: How To Best Notify Attendees?

The Digital Divide: Will The Rush To The Metaverse Leave People Behind?

Matchmaking Services: twine Acquired Glimpse

Event Platform Case Study: Meet Remo!

Why Customer Support Should Be Your #1 Event Tech Feature

Engagement & Networking At Events With Mark Herschberg!

Brandt & Will’s Event Technology Trends 2022

Event Tech Mergers & Acquisitions: A Double-Edged Sword

New Year, New Ideas: Event Tech Predictions For 2022

The Art Of Maintaining Eye Contact With The Camera

Here‘s How To Rank & Choose An Event Platform!

Event Staffing: Event AV Is NOT A One Person Job!

Scope Creep In The Events Industry: When Client-Pleasing Goes Too Far

Stepping Up The Game: Here‘s Why You Need To Look Better On Camera

Meet Accelevents, The All-In-One Event Management Platform!

Facebook As A Metaverse Company: Implications For The Events Industry

Consistency Is Key: Better Brand Management With Astute Review!

From Button Boxes To Chats: Audience Response Systems Through Time!

Your Event App Doesn't Have AI, It Has Predictive Analytics!

Facial Recognition: From Disney Parks To The Events Industry!

Keeping It Safe: Better Post-COVID Events With CrowdPass!

Everything You Need To Know About Hybrid Event Staff!

The Wave Of The Future: Hybrid & Virtual Event Platforms With Kyle Kocinski!

Starlink In Events: New Possibilities For Remote Venues

Why You Shouldn’t Care About Event Platforms Getting Investments

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