Episodes
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
With more than 12 years’ experience working in the events industry, primarily in tech, Rachel Heller is senior content program manager, events, at Github, the AI-powered developer platform.
Tellingly, Rachel wrote a blog for the Github site, ‘9 tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference’ and that’s what this episode is all about.
Rachel talks about the journey; the call for sessions, inspiring people to apply, networking, crafting talks, writing a good bio and, ultimately, becoming a familiar name to organisers.
Rachel goes on to highlight a couple of tips from her blog – not least helping the review committee to understand how long your content can live beyond the event. She discusses the thin line between a conference keynote and a podcast, taking advantage of the real-time experience, practising content ideas in front of people with no knowledge of your industry, passion projects, preparation, and vocal techniques.
It’s a really to-the-point, insightful 30 minutes that brings the stage much closer to the audience.
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Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Scaling with event tech
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Former head of digital innovation at Reed Exhibitions, Ade Allenby launched his own advisory business in March 2023.
In this episode, Ade talks advances in event tech, the sector’s move from the fringes to the heartbeat of contemporary shows, tools that help people connect, and generating data to help organisers better understand their audience.
Prompted by host James Dickson, Ade goes on to discuss the spoils of cameras in the halls, algorithmic Bluetooth navigation/tracking and measuring success, QR codes, engagement touchpoints, IOS update – airdrop and namedrop – incorporating audience-owned tech, or not, and clients’ common questions.
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Thursday Aug 24, 2023
How to approach event launches and re-launches
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Caroline Cronin took her 16 plus years of industry experience to emap in 2021, as head of conferences then head of events.
In this episode, with a focus on the post-pandemic push for new order, Caroline details the spawn of enforced downtime, changing formulas for awards ceremonies and conferences, and how covid crushed historical data’s validity.
Talking to host James Dickson, Caroline goes on to discuss everything from fostering event relationships after pandemic ground zero, the unity of inexperience, unpredictable schedules to setting new trends and compartmentalisation.
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Thursday Aug 17, 2023
How to design and deliver a flawless Hackathon
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Ewelina Dunkley has years of experience in the live events world, working in hospitality, fine dining and private parties before joining Meta, (then Facebook, Inc) in 2016, where she’s events lead.
This episode is about Hackathons, a term for a social coding event that brings computer programmers and other interested people together to improve upon, or build, new software.
Ewelina talks host James Dickson through the customer journey, dispelling myths and clarifying the makeup of a Hackathon.
She goes on to discuss the value in collaboration, the high energy atmosphere of these get-togethers, in-person or remote and who benefits.
Ewelina details the duration, building teams, commitments, connectivity, skills diversity, structure, judges, unpolished results, networks, ensuing relationships, and… the Hackers Club.
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Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Destination Emirates Old Trafford
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Working at Emirates Old Trafford since 2013, Angela Hobson has been sales director at the home to Lancashire County Cricket club for more than three years.
Talking to host James Dickson just after the third Ashes Test had decided the series, Australia retaining the urn, Angela does the detail about the venue’s massive redevelopment – a £45m programme over 15 years.
She discusses the planning and delivery behind a Test match and Emirates Old Trafford’s new-look provision for the greater events model, the Point controversy, getting other elements of the portfolio up to standard, the versatility of the Pavilion and the Player & Media Centre.
Angela Hobson goes on to detail the ecological terrace and the greater sustainability picture, the Sensory Room and the on-site 150-bedroom Hilton Garden Inn, replete with pitch views and balconies, and providing for everything from 60,000 cap concerts to conferences to board meetings. And beyond those boundaries…
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
Sound: The Underrated but Fundamental Element of Events with Thomas Serrano
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Thomas Serrano launched Exclamation Group in 2020. Driven by its ‘Events That Make A Point’ mantra the company is a ‘one-stop-shop for corporate and luxury events, cultural and sports partnerships’. And the New York/Miami-based business lists Bulgari, Audemars Piguet, Dom Perignon and Swarovski among recent clients.
In this episode, the focus is on how music sews, or should sew, events together. Thomas Serrano discusses the experience clients want to create, mapping their collective or independent emotional journey through sound, and how that system can make events memorable as well as meaningful.
Talking to host James Dickson, Serrano goes on to explain how music fits the Exclamation Group model, live versus pre-recorded sound, compositions behind the reveal of a new car, the value of researching an audience, the data behind a playlist, drawing/keeping attention and the power of the unexpected.
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
IMEX: Rebranding an established event
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Launched in 2003, IMEX Frankfurt is the heartbeat of the global business events community. And that’s what it says on the show’s homepage.
In this episode, IMEX design manager Anna Gyseman and Oli Bailey, interaction designer, detail the considerable process involved in giving a new look to the practised, proven event.
In conversation with host James Dickson they discuss 18 months research – not least with 50 external partners - how it’s a refresh not a rebrand, modernising and streamlining the stamp, physically and digitally.
They go on to talk diligence in the process – through prototypes in context, animation, sponsorships and timing, ahead of the big reveal.
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Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Scaling events on a global scale
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Raccoon Media Group, formerly Raccoon Events, launched in a garden shed and delivered the award-winning National Running Show, at Birmingham NEC, less than two years later.
In this episode, CEO Mike Seaman talks host James Dickson through Raccoon’s growth, how it currently runs 10 shows, eight of them homegrown, two acquired.
Mike discusses rebranding during Covid, delivering for the 500,000 people on the Raccoon database, turning ideas into realities, the resurgence of events post-pandemic, the future of Raccoon as a blended events and digital business, and the vetting process among target communities.
The podcast also touches on engagement and galvanising groups of people, similarities between running and equine events, sustainability, and the metrics of taking shows across the Pond.
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Thursday Jul 06, 2023
TURF for event sponsorships
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Since 2022, tellingly titled company TURF has been pitching exclusive NFTs and art prints of ‘any place on earth’.
Co-founder Garm Lucassen, who has a history in business infomatics, took his experience of blockchain and NFTs to co-found TURF, which is focused on cartographic/map-based art. Every piece in its global collection is available just once and TURF is working with First Event and Cardano Foundation to deliver a new dimension in event giveaways.
In this episode, Garm is joined by Alex Maaza, outreach development manager at Swiss-based Cardano, a not-for-profit organisation focused on furthering the public digital infrastructure, and Max Collishaw, who is head of digital at corporate event management specialist First Event.
With host James Dickson putting the questions, the participants discuss the TURF collection and its impact on events, the 2022 Cardano Summit by way of example, the concept of NTFs and Blockchain, authenticity, gifting gold NFTs, gamification and much, much more.
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Monday Jun 19, 2023
Reset Connect and the power of a positive event
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Having spent the latter part of his 10 years at Clarion Events as EVP of its energy portfolio, Duncan Reid founded Reset Connect, a sustainability show for business, investors and innovators, during lockdown.
With so many people knocked out of their employment stride by the pandemic, Reid was able to put together a top team of co-founders and launch, in the shape of a week of webinars against the clock in 2021.
Since then, Reset Connect has found its in-person feet and this episode, recorded two weeks out from the 2023 edition, sees Duncan talk host James Dickson through those stages.
They discuss the COVID-19-era ‘concentration of minds’, and its products, choosing the UK’s first carbon neutral venue to host the show - one element in the pressure to contain the inevitable uplift in emissions switching from virtual to hybrid in 2022, and the growth in want for sustainability across events-world and beyond. Aimed at business leaders, Reset Connect has a multi-sector reach.
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