WEBINAR PROGRAMME 24TH SEPTEMBER VIRTUAL EVENT
PREPARING FOR THE CHALLENGES AHEAD AS THE EVENT INDUSTRY RETURNS TO BUSINESS Host: Martin Fullard, Editor of Conference News @EventOrgSummit #EventOrganisersLIVE Sponsors
Event technology - What will be the shape of events after lockdown? 9.40 - 10.30 Ruth Carter Managing Director - Red Fox Advisory Ed Tranter Managing Director – 73 Media
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Ruth Carter
Ruth has forged a successful international CEO career leading high growth B2B and B2C businesses in the exhibition, conference and publishing sectors in organisations including Daily Telegraph, Informa, UBM and Emap and has launched and grown companies everywhere from Shanghai to Santa Monica. She is currently Director at Red Fox Advisory, a specialist consultancy working with global companies to drive growth, acquisition plans and transformation strategies for both physical and digital products. Ruth is also a Non-Executive Director of Inclusive Companies Ltd, the premier cross-industry network championing diversity in the workplace and Executive Mentor for ‘Be the Business’, the government backed support for senior executives leading SMEs to help fast track productivity and performance.
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Ed Tranter
Ed is the founder and MD of 73 Media – an event organiser and agency. Creators of One Earth Show and The Rugby Show, 73 Media aims to deliver great events, have fun and make a difference. In a 25+ year career, Ed has worked on events across 44 countries and 5 continents. His vision is to grow 73 into a business/brand that the team, customers, attendees (and his kids) can be proud of. (And that’s 73 words… #OnBrand)
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Combing the right technologies to deliver your message worldwide! WE ARE A GLOBAL SERVICE PROVIDER SPECIALISING IN LIVE AND HYBRID EVENT PRODUCTION, VIDEO CREATION AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION. As industry leaders, our clients have trusted us since 1935 to provide creative, technical and collaborative solutions. We have a rich heritage in filmmaking, video production and content development, with experience of working in multiple international markets for our globally recognised portfolio of clients. We know that you can’t replace the power of an in person live event, but as travel restrictions and other measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 remain in place for the foreseeable future, we can create hybrid event experiences, focusing on professional production values, combining the power of in-person, virtual, social or broadcast to deliver highly immersive brand experiences. We are well-versed in using many different content vehicles to bring our clients’ brands to life for both internal and external events. We identify the best format with which to deliver content, based on scale, technology and audience profiles. Our hybrid solutions are designed to ensure that your events are more memorable and measurable. Hybrid events enable your attendees to interact — no matter where they are in the world and you get more from your event through analytics and evergreen content. With more than 40 years experience of hosting live global events, we’re uniquely qualified to help turn a less-than-ideal situation into a world-class brand experience. In fact, we're doing it for several global brands right now!
Discussion Panel – How To Motivate Staff, Re-boost Employee Morale And Reinstate Confidence In Event Visitors 10.45 - 11.35 Neil Thompson The Delegate Wranglers: Raoul Monks Founder and Director, Flume Training Raoul Monks Founder & Director, Flume Sales Training
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Neil Thompson
With 22 years experience in the event industry, Neil operated his own freelance event management business from 2005 until 2019 –organising mostly pharmaceutical events all over the world. Neil founded The Delegate Wranglers Facebook group in 2014. Since then, under careful, friendly and positive management the group has organically grown to over 20,000 (highly engaged) members. In 2019 Neil was named as M&IT Personality of the Year and more recently the group has achieved ‘Facebook Community Managed Partner’ status. Neil speaks regularly on the events industry circuit and recently shared a panel Createch with VP of Facebook Europe, Nicola Mendelsohn.
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Raoul Monks
Raoul Monks, Founder & Director, Flume Sales Training Raoul is the Founder of Flume Sales Training and is driven by helping businesses navigate their way through this crisis in the strongest way possible. He is a regular speaker at industry events and recently led a series of Flume webinars which attracted several thousand event professionals. He also writes a regular sales column in Exhibition News called “Closed Won”. Flume work with companies to put teams into the head of their clients to create the most powerful sales and marketing approaches possible. They are well known in the events industry for their focus on driving measurable sales impact through the training they provide. Raoul is an ultra-marathon runner, a film-buff and an avid reader of business books.
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Managing emerging mental health problems post lockdown 11.45 - 12.35 Helen Moon Chief Executive & Founder, EventWell
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Helen Moon Helen Moon is a CIM qualified Events, Marketing & Communications Professional with an eclectic mix of experience in the events industry that spans 20+ years and includes event production, venue operations, proactive sales and digital marketing. Helen understands first-hand the busy role of an event professional and the sometimes-devastating impact it can have on our mental health. She founded Event Wellbeing Week and EventWell in 2017, the industry’s charitable and community social enterprise of which she is now Chief Executive. As a mental health influencer she has spoken regularly on the subject of self-care and the importance of building resilience drawn from her own experiences and her desire to support better mental health and wellbeing for all event professionals.
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Safeguarding Events: Stand Design, Health & Safety 13.35 -14.15 Chris Skeith Chief Executive OďŹƒcer of the AEO (Association of Event Organisers) Nick Morgan CEO, We are the Fair Kerrie Kemp Regional Operations Director EMEA, Informa Markets
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Chris Skeith Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of the AEO (Association of Event Organisers), the leading association for organisers of events in the UK and internationally. Chris started his career in media auditing at the Audit Bureau of Circulations, where he later led on the development of their auditing products for the event sector. In 2006 Chris moved to the Events Industry Alliance, overseeing the merger of AEC & BECA to form ESSA (Event Supplier & Services Association) and the launch of the highly successful ‘Use an ESSA Member’ campaign. In 2010, he also became Director of ESSA’s sister association, AEV (Association of Event Venues), driving venue engagement through numerous special interest groups. Chris holds a seat on the Government’s Events Industry Board Committee and is Vice Chair & Treasurer of BVEP (Business Visits & Events’ Partnership), a partnership of all leading associations in the event industry, representing the sector to government and regulators. He is an UFI Board Member and chair of their associations.
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Nick Morgan
Nick Morgan is CEO of We Are The Fair and We Are Placemaking. Nick, has over 23 years’ experience across large-scale Event Production, Licensing and Health & Safety within public realm, large scale events and festivals. Nick sits on the NOEA Council, is a board member of AIF, a Vice Chair of BVEP, is a member of the NTIA and has recently joined the Festival DCMS/Public Health England Workforce.
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Kerrie Kemp
Kerrie has worked in Exhibition Operations her entire career, now with experience spanning over 20 years in the ďŹ eld. In this time Kerrie has progressed from Operations Assistant through to her current role as Regional Operations Director EMEA, during this period she has worked for Organisers including Imark, VNU Exhibitions, Ithaca Media, UBM and subsequently now Informa Markets. Her EMEA operations team is comprised of around 50 professionals spread across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Turkey & Egypt covering multiple market sectors from B2B to consumer.
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Help recovery by keeping the talent within the industry 14.15 - 14.45 Q & A with: Trevor Foley MD TFConnect Douglas Emslie Group MD, Tarsus Group
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Trevor Foley
Trevor Foley has over 30 years’ experience in exhibitions and events. He was Group Chief Executive of the Associations of Event Organisers (AEO), Exhibition Venues (AEV) and Event Supplier and Services (ESSA) between 1998-08. Foley has a track record of launching and growing events. In 2008, he launched global executive search consultancy, tfconnect. Foley is also MD of Events for Namuwongo, a philanthropic network of companies who support life-changing work in Uganda.
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Douglas Emslie
Douglas has been with Tarsus since its launch in 1998; prior to which he held senior management positions at Blenheim Group plc and after its takeover, United Business Media plc. He is a past Chairman and remains a Director, of the Association of Event Organisers (AEO) as well as past Chairman of the Events Industry Alliance. He is also the ďŹ rst international board member of the US industry trade body – SISO and a member of its executive committee. In addition, Douglas was a founding member of the International Organiser Network (ION), a joint AEO and SISO group.
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