#EventIcons

At the end of each year, we look forward to the next year to ponder on what changes we need to make (resolutions) but as an event industry, we seem to be fascinated by event trends and what will be “the next big thing” next year. So I assembled two of the leaders in event trends, Al Wynant and Corbin Ball. We have an hour long conversation about what we think are the biggest trends and how the industry will react to them. Start formulating your list of the 2016 event trends, and then compare them to what our experts have to say!

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Corbin Ball

Al Wynant

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

IBM Watson Analytics

EventIcons Episode 4

Crowd Mics

Corbin Ball’s Website

Sign up for Corbin’s Newsletter

Event Interface Blog

Starting your own company. It’s the dream of so many of us! Well this week, we talk with Dahlia El Gazzar and Sarah Soliman about what it takes to make creating your own company possible! This week is full of inspiration thinking and awesome tools to start your own company and you do not want to miss it! You can watch the replay below but as always, we definitely recommend tuning in live on Wednesdays at 5pm EST on Blab so you can ask questions live and talks directly with the icons of the events industry. Next week, we have Al Wynant and Corbin Ball who will be discussing 2016 event trends! Tune in live at 5pm EST on Wednesday to share your predictions!

Follow our iconic guests on Twitter:

Sarah Soliman

Dahlia El Gazzar

Will Curran

Follow @helloendless to stay updated about future shows!

Legendary resources mentioned:

Book: The One Thing

Conspire

Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design

Hootsuite

Slack

PCMA Convening Leaders

Mixergy

99u

IdeaMensch

Quibb

Steve Mehr

Jeff Hurt

#asae – Used for conversations happening among members of the American Society of Association Executives

#assnchat – Used for conversations among association professionals

#bizbash – Used among those event professionals referring to BizBash

#CSR – Used for conversations on Corporate Social Responsibilit

#engage365 – Used for conversations among event professionals discussing social media and audience engagement

#eventprofs – This is THE hashtag of the industry

2016 Meeting & Event Trends for Event Planners

Event technology, event technology, event technology! It’s on the tips of everyone’s tongues in the industry so I wanted to assemble the top names in the event industry who know event technology and of course, I had to invite Liz King of techsytalk, Sean Holladay of Crowd Mics and Laura Lopez of Social Tables to chat trends, cool new technologies and most importantly to answer your questions! It’s another episode of #EventIcons and this one does not disappoint! Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 5pm LIVE on Blab to ask questions of the icons of the event industry. Watch the recording of Episode 3 below.

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Liz King

Sean Holladay

Laura Lopez

Will Curran

Epic resources mentioned:

techsytalk

techsytalk LIVE

Crowd Mics

SocialTables

Slack

(Episode 96〕How to hack into big corporations -Sean Holladay

Gary Vaynerchuk

QuickTapSurvey

FastBar

Georama

PCMA Convening Leaders

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

The Thank You Economy

Gary Vaynerchuk on Periscope

Product Hunt

Product Hunt Podcasts

Product Hunt Books

BizBash

Event Manager Blog

Meeting Pool

Mashable

Wired

Inc Magazine

Peter Shankman

Event Planning Checklist

The second episode of #EventIcons is here and I wanted to start the show off with a topic that I am very familiar with but I know a lot of planners find confusing and that is event AV. So I brought together the three people I know are putting our a huge effort to educate planners and make AV much easier. I hope you enjoy this weeks episode, and be sure to tune in live so you can ask questions as well!

Follow our #EventIcons guests on Twitter:

@ItsWillCurran

@BrandtKrueger

@Andrew_Latimer

@AVGirlMidori

Iconic resources mentioned:

How To Remove In-House AV Restrictions

Midori’s Dropbox of Awesomeness

Video Connectors & Ports

Event AV Planning Checklist

Technical Meeting & Event Production class on ELI

Glossary of Live Event Terminology

Event Safety Alliance

Infocomm show

Join us every week on #EventIcons where, I, Will Curran and the audience get a chance to ask questions to the most iconic people in the event industry. This week, we are doing things a bit differently and give you a chance to get to know me, the host. Dan Tyre is #6 employee of Hubspot and speaks at hundreds of events, and grills me on how I started the company and my tips to making the events run smoothly.

Follow Endless to not miss an episode of #EventIcons: @helloendlessFollow Dan Tyre on Twitter: @dantyreFollow Will Curran on Twitter: @itswillcurran

Epic resources and events mentioned:

Blab.im

Endless Entertainment

Hubspot

Endless Entertainment Blog

Invest Southwest

Phoenix Startup Week

Phoenix Comicon

Emerald City Comicon

The Color Run

X-Games

INBOUND conference

Story on how Endless transformed Funko’s events

Event Planning Checklist

How To Remove In-House AV Restrictions guide