The EPN Journal Podcast

This Week In Events For 8th August 2025 - Speakers, costs and Tomorrowland fire


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This Week In Events, a weekly podcast series that takes a deeper look at some of the stories and trends from the last 7 days.


This edition, for Friday 8th August, features Paul Richardson of ⁠⁠⁠VividInk⁠⁠⁠, Jill Hawkins of ⁠⁠⁠Aniseed PR⁠⁠⁠ and Bob Toovey of ⁠⁠⁠Event Planner News⁠⁠⁠.


Topics and stories this week include...

  • Rising cost in the industry - C&IT study reveals 95% of planners see costs as top challenge

  • Worthy mention - Speakerstacks share their speakers guide, Top Public Speaking Anxiety Tips to Boost Confidence
  • Follow up to the TomorrowLand fire, by Andrew Roby on LinkedIn
  • A great discussion on speakers paying to appear on stage, should those talks be marked as sponsored content?
  • Margaret Reeves at RefTec writes a follow up article to that controversial post, and it's published on Exhibition News


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