Episodes
-
Live and direct from Canada, Jeff Campbell, author of two partnerships playbooks and founder of Incentli, a company committed to improving attendee motivation and engagement, fell into event industry from the e-Learning vertical.
Jeff’s background in education fostered his interest in online learner engagement and gamification. So much so, he started Incentli and built an integration with learning management systems (LMS). Ultimately, Campbell’s/Incentli’s goal is to make partnerships as easy as they can be, making him a perfect fit with this episode.
Across some 45 minutes of chat, host/Event Tech Live co-founder, Adam Parry, and Jeff Campbell dig down into the integration equation, with the equally successful and ‘agnostic’ Incentli a perfect case in point.
A clued-up collaboration – typical of the Event Tech Talks series - they talk imposter syndrome, tech stacks, connecting LMS to ecommerce platforms, driving attendee stickiness through partnerships and the energy from collaboration.
From the difference between online learning and virtual events, timeframes and a useful burger parallel – the calendar year is bottom of the bun, events ‘the pickle’ – right through to what integration actually means, it’s all here.
-
‘Designed in Belgrade. Made remotely worldwide’, Beams is the business, launched in 2020, behind its eponymous ‘virtual event engine with a one-window technology’.
In this episode, recorded the day registration opened for Event Tech Live 2022, topically, host Adam Parry talks to Yana Kuodis, co-founder and head of business development at Beams, who can trace her history in events back as far school, and Nadya Kuzmenko, head of marketing, whose experience from other fields left her with a commitment to carry the big ideas.
Born of, and during, the pandemic, Beams’ focus is on strengthening the hand of virtual events, pushing on to unleash still untapped potential and revenue.
Across a fascinating 45 minutes, the conversation covers how it feels to be encouraging people to deliver digital events while the in-person option is where the want is. And the argument between ‘how the virtual model was thrust on a population typically not interested, invested or truly understanding the concept’ and the extraordinary amount of time huge numbers working at home spend, interacting, learning, buying and selling online.
There’s more too of course…
-
Missing episodes?
-
The eighth episode of Event Tech Talk Show is all about data, and in Joe Colangelo host Adam Parry has found another perfect sparring partner.
Joe is co-founder and CEO of Bear Analytics, a firm dedicated to translating data into actionable intelligence for event producers, trade associations and professional societies.
Putting questions both as data the infatuated co-founder of Event Tech Live and as a very interested independent other, Adam gets the back story; how Jo Colangelo started with a biotech trade organisation, going on to work with its events team where he identified a “pretty big” deficiency on the data side. And how he and partner Eric Misic
founded Bear in the summer of 2013 as a result.
Adam and Joe discuss the impact of the Covid pandemic, how close it came to suffocating the business, and the subsequent launch of Bear IQ.
They talk about the burgeoning value of data and how to get the most out of it, which business operations benefit the most from centralised, clean, consolidated data. They look at tech stacks, Bear’s unique place in the puzzle, and much, much more.
-
In little over 10 years Jimmy MacDonald, together with Rachel Isherwood, founded, developed and sold London Design Fair.
At the end of May 2022 – soon after the Evening Standard and Citibank had rated him one of the top 1,000 most influential Londoners - California-based e-commerce platform Ribbon appointed MacDonald as its global fairs liaison officer.
Episode 7 of the Event Tech Talk Show sees Jimmy MacDonald talk host Adam Parry through that considerable background, making mention of 100% Design, a JV with Reed Exhibitions, Super Brands London and much more.
Meeting out praise for Old Truman Brewery and Excel, MacDonald goes on to discuss his biggest challenge and the trade show mechanic before tackling the hybrid commerce question – with a spotlight on the Ribbon platform.
-
In this episode of Event Tech Talks, number 6 of Season 2, Canada-based Evan Babins – who joined Klir, succinctly ‘the operating system for water’, at the turn of the year - tells host Adam Parry about planning, producing and executing trade shows in the water industry across the United States.
Steeped in relevant experience, and a great, sharp communicator, Evan got a start in virtual events back in 2017. With a focus on a full-bore event year in 2023, he offers tech advice for the meantime, as the industry finds its feet again.
Evan highlights the value in incorporating virtual and hybrid models post-pandemic, connectivity – properly mixing in-person with virtual attendees – latest lead generation/lead capture solutions, getting better quality information, more substance, via Voiceform rather than asking people to fill a form out, and much, much more.
-
Event Tech Talk Show Season 2, Episode 5 sees host Adam Parry talking shop with Ben Axtell and Gus Perret – co-founders of GoRemote.
In March 2020 – as events businesses around the world were postponing, cancelling, rethinking their everything in light of the then encroaching pandemic shadow. Tech took the calls but there was, naturally enough, some oversight.
Virtual/hybrid event specialist Ben, speaking from Annecy in the south east of France, and show caller/AV man Gus, around the corner in Thônex, do the detail on GoRemote, which focused on supporting speakers as they found their feet across the digital platform through lockdowns, making sure they were fully briefed and confident before stepping on the virtual stage. And how the company has moved on as restrictions have lifted.
-
Event Tech Talk Show’s episode 4 in Season 2 sees host Adam Parry crossing the hemispheres to talk to Mike Day in Australia.
Mike is Asia Pacific regional manager for One World Rental, the event tech hire business, who comes to the conversation with more than five years’ experience managing teams, operations, projects, and client relationships internationally for the company.
While overseeing all APAC operations, Mike also focuses on the continued development and expansion of the company internationally as well as onboarding global partnerships.
Having revealed that he’s IOS more than android and would choose a cocktail over a coffee – particularly on the beach – in answer to Adam’s quickfire questions, Mike goes on to remember his first steps in the event industry, joining One World Rental, when it was called High Tablets and moving Down Under, before digging into the event services partner question.
-
Event Tech Talks’ episode 3, series 2 sees host Adam Parry talking to Joel Olandesca, creator/co-founder of the self-explanatory SOS Charging Solutions and, topically, SOS WebAR, which is a browser route to immersive augmented reality and all its commercial potential.
With a background in mobile technology, marketing and the money side of the events world, along with prominent positions at the ILEA, Joel Olandesca is another perfect fit for the programme.
Talking from his Calgary base, where it’s -25°c, incidentally, Joel fields Adam’s quickfire ‘who are you’ questions before digging into what augmented reality means for the events industry, how it’s used, how SOS is working with clients to integrate AR activations, what the future holds for the technology and more besides.
-
The second edition in Event Tech Talks’ Season 2 sees host Adam Parry talking with Michelle Garrison and Daniel Moss, co-founders of virtual event optimiser We & Goliath, about ‘How to host more meaningful, inspiring events online’.
A serial entrepreneur operating in and around sustainability and community-building projects for some 20-years, Michelle’s projects have been picked up by the Boston Globe, Washington Post and CBS among many others.
Daniel is a senior event strategist who has designed digital campaigns for virtual and in-person events, replete with lead nurturing automation, omnichannel retargeting, and conversion rate optimisation.
They launched We & Goliath in 1999 to empower organisations to host more meaningful, inspiring events online. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, but working everywhere, Michelle Garrison and Daniel Moss have myriad answers to the question.
This episode starts with a tip about bonded internet and keeps on giving…
-
First episode in Event Tech Talk Show Series 2 maintains the focus on clued up contributors doing the detail on the hottest topics.
Here, it’s Jason Allan Scott, serial entrepreneur/founder of software company Kopus, which has a focus on commercialising podcasts, Matt Coyne from Waves Connects, home to a weekly event industry podcast, and Caleb Parker, founder of Bold – think occasional office space for entrepreneurs – who hosts WorkBold ‘the only podcast dedicated to the future asset class called Space-as-a-Service’ A panel fully equipped to address the subject.
Steered by host Adam Parry, look out for tips on sourcing the requisite tech, the kit, to deliver – which doesn’t need to be expensive - the best recording environments, fostering and maintaining an audience, making it pay and much more. It’s all here.
-
The last Event Tech Talk Show of the year, recorded mid-December, features Adam Parry and guests Max Gethin, client partner at integrated brand experience agency Matter, Swapcard content marketer Mia Masson and Lionel Scurville, account exec at Hubilo.
Over the last 12 months Event Tech Talks’ first series has harnessed some brilliant minds to look at, in the host’s words, ‘just about everything you could throw a stick at when it comes to event technology.’
So ‘where next?’ is the perfect, boundary-free wrap-up question.
Under the banner ‘Event Tech Predictions’ Adam and his guests start with Zuckerberg’s metaverse and finish, aptly enough, with what they want to leave behind in 2021, pandemics aside…
Switch on to 60 minutes for four clued-up, considered takes on our tech future.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show host, Adam Parry chats with Mahoganey Jones, Founder & CEO at Event Specialists.
Mahoganey is a true event expert. She founded and runs Event Specialists, one of Canada’s pre-eminent event production and management firms. She is the FIRST (yah, the first!) Canadian Event professional to become a Certified Digital Event Strategist and considers herself a poutine aficionado!
It has been 17+ years since Mahoganey took a jump into the Events world – and she still wakes up each day with a real love for her work! She has won numerous awards for her contributions to the events world, including the 2021 “Event Professional of the Year'' & “Top 100 Most Influential People in the Events Industry.”
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show host, Adam Parry chats with Shawn Cheng, Client Solutions Manager at MCI Group.
Whether creating a knowledge exchange or business collaboration, Shawn believes a purposefully designed experience is a platform to make it happen, no matter it is an in-person or a digital experience.
Shawn has worked on events ranging between 20-10,000 people throughout his career, each with unique objectives and challenges. In his current role at MCI Group, he is average 3-5 projects per year, some of which require years of preparation and some with only a few weeks turnaround. During the pandemic, he has successfully produced multiple virtual experiences for his client with innovative approaches.
As a self-claimed LEARNAHOLIC, Shawn actively participates in conversations around event design, innovation, sustainability, and technology. Shawn is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), and a Certified Digital Event Strategist (DES).
Shawn is the Co-Founder of #EventProfsBreakShit and was named “Planners of the Year” by Smart Meetings Magazine in 2019.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show host, Adam Parry chats with Jan-Japp In der Maur Founder of Masters in Moderation & Event Tech Tool, ConsensIQ.
Jan-Japp offers his top tech tips for hosting engaging online and hybrid events.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show host, Adam Parry chats with Stas Zaslavsky - Co-Founder & CEO at Vii Events and Stuart Mitchell - Managing Director at Catch the MICE around a number of lead generation strategies for virtual events.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
To watch or listen to previous episodes of The Event Tech Talk Show on-demand visit www.eventtechlive.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show, dubbed The Monte Carlo Simulation, host Adam Parry chats with Matt Grey, director at EventDecision, who has developed predictor tools of his own.
Adam and Matt take a look at how event world compares with other industries in terms of measurement, what we should be looking to measure and the best data to use.
Matt Grey founded EventDecision in early 2021, after a 20-year career in event and production agencies.
Having delivered shows for major brands from Kuala Lumpur to Boston, Matt brings his experience to event planners in-house, agency, venue and digital, with tech designed to help the decision-making process..
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
To watch or listen to previous episodes of The Event Tech Talk Show on-demand visit www.eventtechlive.com
-
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show, dubbed Partying in the Metaverse, host Adam Parry chats with Celeste Lear, event producer, 3D visual artist, DJ, and James Will (J-Will), founder of stream platform VadVim.
With virtual reality common to both, Celeste Lear is a VR/XR/AR designer while VadVim enables users to communicate virtually through audio and video and to connect in 3D VR spaces, the conversation will focus on that alt dimension as well as tapping into stories from the participants’ background and future projects.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase, the company behind solutions and services to boost engagement, increase networking, automate processes and generate registrations for your in-person, hybrid and virtual events: eventscase.com
The watch or listen to previous episodes of The Event Tech Talk Show on-demand visit www.eventtechtalks.com
-
Canapii recently scooped Gold at the inaugural Event Tech Live US & CA Start-up competition.
In this episode of The Event Tech Talk Show host Adam Parry will talk to Eleanor Martin Co-founder at the virtual events platform about her vision for virtual events and what it's takes to win gold and what it is like being an event technology start-up in current times.
Eleanor is responsible for product innovation and customer success at Canapii. She actively contributes to the creation and leads the innovation of Canapii, with her focus lying on improving and revolutionizing the UX and UI design of the platform.
She has global responsibility for all Canapii customer relationships and consults with clients on how Canapii can transform both their user and event management experience. Her success as a project manager for events using Canapii has played a key role in driving the platform’s growth and positioning.
Eleanor entered the events industry as an event’s organizer. In addition to her work at Canapii, Eleanor currently leads Canalys’ European events, where she focuses on the delivery, execution, promotion, and marketing of world-class, digital-first experiences.
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase – eventscase.com
The first season will feature 21 episodes available LIVE and on-demand at eventtechtalks.com
-
In this episode, host Adam Parry chats with Natalia Vives Angulo, Head of International Development at Digitevent Adam and Natalia discuss the The ugly truth about hybrid events
We’ve been forced to recreate events into hybrid events more than ever in the last two years but it won’t become a best practice for the events industry.
We thought we were “creating” hybrid events to face a global pandemic, but in retrospect, we were just adapting events to our new reality. And we might have just missed the point of it.
You can check Digitevent out at: digitevent.com/enThe Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase – eventscase.com
The first season will feature 21 episodes available LIVE and on-demand at eventtechtalks.com
-
In this episode, host Adam Parry chats with Lawrence Cobrun, a serial entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California working on software that brings people together. Previously Lawrence founded DoubleDutch to address this opportunity in the world of corporate events.
He is now working on a new project called twine which he says is the easiest way to add serendipitous networking to events, remote teams, and communities In this episode, Adam and Lawrence discuss the true meaning of networking, how events from a networking perspective have changed forever, the role that technology will play in helping the world network better and Lawrences own very personal story that gave him the vision for what networking should look like at events.
You can check twine out at: twine.nyc
The Event Tech Talk Show is sponsored by eventscase - eventscase.com
The first season will feature 21 episodes available LIVE and on-demand at eventtechtalks.com
- Show more
