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 ch ..read more

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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 ..read 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 ..read more

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 ..read 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 th ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 int ..read more

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 ..read more