Event Industry News Podcast

Special: Helen Moon from EventWell talks Event Wellbeing week 2018

Starting from Monday 17^th September, the Event Industry News podcast will publish a special episode each day to coincide with Event Wellbeing Week 2018. The five part series begins with Helen Moon, founder of EventWell. 

During the podcast, Helen talks honestly about her own experiences of wellbeing during her 20-plus year career in the events industry. She also highlights the key objectives of the Event Well organisation, and the resources that are now available to #eventprofs who may be struggling with their physical, emotional or mental health.

The rapid rise of Smarter Shows

On this week’s Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson welcomes Emma Stokes, managing director of Smarter Shows.

Based in Brighton, the company has experienced rapid growth since its launch, with a portfolio that has expanded to seven different shows. During the podcast, Emma talks about the specialist manufacturing and engineering sectors that they focus on, and how the events are developed and refined.

Emma also talks about the challenges faced by the fact that – despite being based in the UK – all the Smarter Shows events take place abroad, either in Europe or the USA

The growth of contactless payments

This week’s podcast looks at the rapid growth of contactless payments and how organisations are utilising he growth to their advantage.

Joining podcast host James Dickson is CEO of Manifesto, Jim Bowes.

 

Manifesto works with many not for profit organisations and has seen many of its clients benefit from the using contactless payment systems at their events. As society becomes less and less reliant on cash, the podcast looks at how organisations are levering this fact to their advantage.

 

During the episode, Jim looks at the way consumers have adapted to the process of contactless payments, and how digital payments as a sector may further develop.

The blurring lines between TV broadcast and live streaming

In this week’s EIN Podcast, James Dickson talks to the founders of Push, a live broadcasting platform that is helping to blur the distinction between TV and live streaming.

James is joined by Chris Webb and Adrian Eaton, who explain the principles of the platform and highlight some of the examples of its deployment.

With so many people watching TV via internet streams, the podcast explores how the distinct lines that used to exist between broadcast quality and live streaming are now rapidly blurring. It also discuses how the Push platform is helping to add the details that only TV broadcasting could previously offer, as well as being able to connect to social media platforms to increase the potential watchers.

VoxR helping to reshape interaction at events

In this week’s EIN podcast, host James Dickson talks to Tim Schluter about the creation and development of VoxR, a tool that helps to promote interaction with event audiences.

During the podcast, Tim explains how he used his experience as a journalist and host to inspire him to create a tool that would allow audiences to vote and interact during conference sessions. Since launching, the tool has expanded into three distinct areas, which can be used collectively or independently based on the criteria and objectives of the user.

 A special trial discount for VoxR is available exclusively for EIN podcast followers. 

Please note that contrary to the date quoted during the podcast, the offer of A FREE Event App has been extended until the 31st August 2018.

Use the code EIN at https://voxr.org to take advantage of this exclusive offer

Exploring the future of RFID with Event Genius

In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson talks to Lauren Lytle from Event Genius about the future of RFID.

The subject has featured previously on the podcast, but having established itself as a valuable tool for event organisers, Lauren discusses the ways in which it could be further deployed.

With consumers now in the habit of making contactless payments thanks to both cards and smartphones, using RFID for payments at events is less of an unknown entity.

However, the process is still yet to reach the adoption levels see in America. Being a native of the USA, Lauren can draw on first hand on her experiences and compare them to the current state of play in the UK.

Podcast: DB Systems unveils major rebrand

This week’s Event Industry News podcast welcomes three guests to the show. Joining host James Dickson is David Bulley, James Barnett and Ali Reece.

All three guests hail from the company formerly known as DB Systems, which has now rebranded to DBpixelhouse. During this episode of the podcast, Managing Director David talks about the reasons for the rebrand, and how the ability to offer content creation in addition to renting the hardware that it is delivered on has shaped the company’s direction.

Sales Manager James and Creative Director Ali also talk about how the various facets of the business, and how the new brand will offer clients a turnkey solution when looking to develop and deliver bespoke content.

Podcast: Exploring the events delivered by Time Out Group

Joining James Dickson on the Event Industry News podcast this week is Abi Dakin.

As the Events Director EMEA for Time Out Group, Abi’s job is to plan and execute events that capitalise on the audience reach available to this global brand.

Time Out has built a reputation as the go-to brand for ‘what’s on’ information in the world’s major cities. Starting life as a printed magazine, it has embraced the digital age by evolving and developing its online guides, travel advice, and event listings. 

During the podcast, Abi talks about some of the events that Time Out has delivered, as well as why the events now lay such a major part of the Time Out operations worldwide.

Podcast: Guinness and Rugby Union - a match made in heaven

Guinness and the Six Nations are two brands that have long had an association with one another. The presence of the legendary Irish stout at the annual rugby tournament is ubiquitous, but that doesn’t stop them from continuing to evolve the partnership and find new ways to deliver engagement.

Joining the Event Industry News podcast this week is Olivia Collier from Verve Agency, the organisation tasked with delivering the Guinness brand activation zones during the tournament. The agency has a long working relationship with Diageo, the parent company of Guinness that also owns many of the world’s other iconic drinks brands.

During the podcast, Olivia talks about the ideas that were new for 2018 and the way the brand refuses to become complacent about the relationship.

Easyfairs talk B2C expansion via pop culture events

This week’s Event Industry News podcast welcomes Nil Sonmez from Easyfairs to the show.

 

Nil joined host James Dickson to talk about the development of the company’s pop culture events, a venture that allowed the company to tap into previously unexplored B2C marketplaces.

 

During the podcast, Nil explains what led to the acquisition of their first Comic Con style event, and why their ownership of venues in Europe was a major factor in the decision to expand its pop culture portfolio.