#EventIcons

This week we are focusing on the future of Event AV and we have some amazing guests joining us! This week’s show will feature Brandt Krueger and Alissa Hurley. Brandt, an expert in AV and event tech, currently teaches many public and private classes through the Event Leadership Institute, and is the owner of Event Technology Consulting. Alissa has over 20 years of experience in corporate events and marketing, and is the National Director (Client Solutions and Emergent Technologies) at FMAV. These event gurus are here to answer all of our questions about Event AV and where we are heading. Want to stay on the cutting edge? Want to know what’s hot and what’s coming up next? This is the place!

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Alisssa Hurley

Brandt Krueger

Laura Lopez

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Small Business Accounting Software

BizBash – Your Daily Dose of Event News and Ideas

SocialTables – The #1 Software for Event Planners and Properties

SocialTables Blog – “Turn of Events”

AUKey – Consumer Electronics and Mobile Accessories

Anker – The Industry Leader in Mobile Power

UE ROLL Wireless Mobile Bluetooth Speaker (Waterproof & Shockproof)

Mophie – The #1 Selling Mobile Battery Case Maker

SocialTables Blog – “The Ultimate Site Visit Checklist (Properties)”

SocialTables Blog – “The Ultimate Site Visit Checklist (Planners)”

Endless Entertainment – Guide for Removing In-House AV Restrictions

Nuzzel – Top News Stories and Feeds

Event technology seems to be brought up in every conversation we have on #EventIcons, and we can’t have a conversation about technology without talking about one of the biggest technologies in the events industry, RFID (Radio-frequency identification). We decided to bring in the grand father of RFID for events, Anthony Palermo! Anthony is the co-founder and CEO of Connect & Go (RFID for events and stadiums), co-founder and CEO of Retail Connect (RFID for retail), and the Founder and CEO of RFID Academia (education on RFID). We talk about do’s and don’ts of RFID, as well as creative ideas to use RFID for your next event. Enjoy this weeks technology packed #EventIcons!

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Anthony Palermo

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Forest School

The Tipping Point

RFID Journal

There are dozens of associations who bring together event professionals of all kinds, however one you might not know about is the The Association for Women in Events. Founded just 2 years ago, it bring together the top women in events to a place to find resources, mentorship, and career guidance/enhancement. Marie-Claire Andrews: Founder and CEO of ShowGizmo, which is a full-scale event management and promotion solution for events and also Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP: Co-Founder & President at Association for Women in Events, are our amazing guests. We will be discussing what got them into the industry and their biggest challenges in the industry. Learn some tips and tricks for both suppliers and planners to taking your event to the next level!

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Marie-Claire Andrews

Carrie Abernathy

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

The Beauty Of Being A Better Buyer

PCMA Subscriptions

Women In Events

Event App Bible

Corbin Ball

#EventIcons with Corbin Ball

Mindfulness Daily

Headspace

Social media for events has to be one of the hottest topics of the last few years! When people are at events, they are constantly on social media sharing their experiences so I wanted to bring together the biggest names in digital marketing and social media to talk about the rights and wrongs of social media for events. This week’s guests are Jason Allan Scott, host of The Guestlist Podcast, Author of The Eventrepreneur Series, and founder of VenueMe & NonInvasives, which is all about cyrotechnology, Miguel Neves (NEVS): Senior Online Community Manager of IMEX (15,000 in attendance Frankfurt and 12,000 in attendance in Vegas) and Jay Feitlinger. Chief Executive Officer of StringCan Interactive, Digital Marketing Strategist, Inbound Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Business Consultant. Jason and Miguel and I all met at IMEX last year at the Event Technology of the Year awards. Jason is the master of social media and Miguel manages all online activities for IMEX. Jay and I go WAY back. We are both actively involved in the Entrepreneur’s Organization (a global non-profit for leading entrepreneurs). When I joined, Jay recognized me, and said, “You’re the guy with the amazing Facebook page”. Turns out, he gave a presentation and used me as an example a few weeks prior. Jay runs the best digital marketing strategy company I know and is one of the most brilliant minds in digital marketing.

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Jason Allan Scott

Miguel Neves

Jay Feitlinger

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Tweetreach

Fiat Dynamo event

Fresh conference

Smugmug

Canva

IMEX Photos

Thrive Planner

Dash

Fiverr

Content marketing is all the buzz today and we wanted to get the people who are crushing it in content marketing in the event industry. My guests this week are David Epstein, Content Marketing Manager of Bizzabo, who is a content marketing and brand building expert focused on building a marketing machine to educate event planners about a SaaS solution! I’m also joined by Kristen Carvalho, Senior Content and Social Media Manager at eTouches. Kristen Carvalho joined etouches in November 2013 and is the company’s Senior Content and Social Media Manager. She is charged with setting and executing the social media and content strategies to support the marketing team efforts to increase equity and online brand awareness. Big shout out to Laura Lopez for hosting this week’s episode while I was in the Panama jungle!

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Laura Lopez

David Epstein

Kristen Carvalho

Epic resources mentioned:

GrooveHQ

Forrester Research

Bambu

Slack

Hubspot

Hootsuite

etouches blog

Event App Bluebook – engagement and app strategies for events

Storify 

Bizzabo blog

The Smart Event Marketing Playbook

Additional helpful resources: http://hubs.ly/H0246yF0

New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. They featured the greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies and television. New York Comic Con is the largest pop culture convention in America and the only one that takes place in the comic book, publishing, media and licensing capital of the world. ReedPop is the organization behind New York Comicon and many other pop culture events around the world including PAX, Chicago’s C2E2 and Emerald City Comicon. This week we are speaking with three awesome guys from ReedPOP, Senior Global Vice-President, Lance Fensterman; Director of Comic Talent, Jim Demonakos; & Event Director, Mike Armstrong. Endless did the production for Emerald City Comicon, and worked directly with Jim to bring his vision to life and we are honored to have them on the show! Learn about what it is like planning New York Comic Con and the many other events they host every year!

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Lance Fensterman

Mike Armstrong

Jim Demonakos

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney

The Customer Rules: The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service

BizBash

Birth of BizBash – #EventIcons Episode 6

International Association of Exhibitions and Events

Netflix Culture Code

I actually visited the Red Frog office a few weeks back and met with their Co-CEO, Ryan Kunkel. They are huge on culture and producing iconic events. Red Frog Events began in 2007 when founder Joe Reynolds was inspired by the show “The Amazing Race” and decided to create unique, fun events that everyone could enjoy. My guests this week, are Christiane Pheil , the company’s official Tackler of Talent, who plays an intricate role in the Firefly Music Festival and all of their events (she’s a badass), and Caitlyn Kahan, Superstar of Style and handles the entire vendor relations department and has been with the company since working Firefly in the merchandise tent and evolved into back of house operations to vendor relationships (she’s a badass too).

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Christiane Pheil

Caitlyn Kahan

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Red Frog Services

EventSprout

Red Frog Food & Beverage

Whine About It

Trello

Google Drive

Google Hangouts

BizBash

#EventIcons Episode 6 with David Adler, founder of BizBash

Rocketbook Wave: Cloud-Ready Microwavable Notebook

These days everyone is talking about live streaming as being an alternative to being at the event. Well, far too often, the quality does not even match what it’s like to be there. My guests this week, Dusty Kraatz, Nicholas Roselius, and Jon Burke, created the first ever 4k live stream at SXSW this year and we’re here to talk more about the future of streaming and what it’s like to be on the bleeding edge of streaming tech.

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Dusty Kraatz

Nicholas Roselius

Jon Burke

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

Clip from the first 4K live stream

Behind the scenes of the world’s first LIVE 4K live stream

Seth Godin’s Blog

Consequence of Sound

La Blogothèque

Hypebot

Streaming Media

It’s another week and another edition of #EventIcons where we interview and give you a chance to ask your questions to the icons of the event industry. This week, we have legends Mike McAllen & Jon Trask! I met Mike & Jon at the Event Technology of the Year awards at IMEX in Vegas. Mike & Jon are the AV gurus & lover of production and hosts of MeetingsPodcast.com. They both created an awesome platform called AVForPlanners which helps demystify AV for anyone who plans events. Mike is the one who actually introduced me to Blab, so I guess in a way you guys can thank him for inspiring #EventIcons. I was just on MeetingsPodcast, so you’ll have to head over there to listen to that! So let’s jump into the interview! Don’t forget to subscribe so you can watch our interviews and ask questions for yourself live on Blab. Just head over to Blab and subscribe!

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Jon Trask

Mike McAllen

Will Curran

Legendary resources mentioned:

AV tips for your site survey

Grass Shack Events Blog

AV For Planners Blog

Social Tables

Headspace

Five Minute Journal

It’s time for another edition of #EventIcons! This week, we have guest, David Adler! David is the founder and CEO of BizBash. If you have never heard of BizBash, BizBash has become the largest media property in the B-to-B event industry with nearly 2.2 million annual user sessions. David got his start in media early where at age 21 he started his own magazine, Washington Dossier, a magazine that covered power, society, politics, and entertaining in the nation’s capital. Well regarded as the leading name in event media, BizBash not only has the physical site, but also hosts major events and even now has it’s own podcast, GatherGeeks. Be sure to tune in live so you can ask questions of your icons of the events industry each week. Tune in on Blab at 5pm EST on Wednesdays!

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David Adler

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

BizBash

GatherGeeks

Huffington Post Pre-Inaugural Ball

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science

Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention