eventplanner.net Podcast

Are you organizing an event for youths? Then you better keep up with the trends. Tom Palmaerts is a trendwatcher at Trendwolves and helped writing the European Youth Trend Report. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/219_what-will-events-look-like-in-2020-trendwatcher.html

How would it be to have a language whereby you could explain the story of your event crystal-clear in less than 60 seconds. A language that both the event-owner and the event-planner understand. Model Canvas. A visual language to solve this problem. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/214_event-model-canvas-a-visual-event-language.html

Safety at events: it is something we think we have under control, until something goes wrong. Maarten van Rijn still doesn't have all the answers yet, but asks the right questions which have the industry thinking. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/206_safety-at-events-who-takes-responsibility.html

Let's face it. The production of an event is not an easy job. There is a lot and often many different companies involved. It's no wonder then that something can go wrong. In this eventplanner.tv episode, Rimko Tunise exposes the major pitfalls in producin - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/184_event-production-pitfalls.html

After spending months planning your event, the time to start the communication and selling tickets has finally arrived. And that is also the moment your website crashes. This happens with even the most professional events. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/203_prevent-your-event-website-from-crashing.html

Why does Apple succeed in getting people to wait in line for the new iPhone and Microsoft doesn't? Tim Verheyden believes it has everything to do with storytelling. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/201_how-to-story-what-you-can-learn-from-a-journalist-as-an-event-planner.html

Have you ever given thoughts to why we have two ears and only one mouth. To be able to hear in stereo or to let the words of others in one ear and out the other. Kevin poses this question to Frederik Imbo. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/180_why-we-have-2-ears-and-1-mouth.html

What happens when you as an event professional are faced with a life-threatening illness and you can't run your business anymore? That's where the SEARCH-foundation reaches out a helping hand. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/187_search-helps-event-professionals-faced-with-disasters.html

The event crew is the engine that drives your event. However this vital team is often neglected and all but forgotten. Too often no catering is provided for them, or no parking space is set aside. At times they do not even pass security because their name - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/182_dont-forget-the-crew.html

A lot of people see meetings as a pure waste of time. If you consider the number of meetings we attend each day and how chaotic they often turn out to be, you can't really blame then. But how can we change that? This is the question for expert Jerko Bozik - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/173_stop-wasting-peoples-time-with-inefficient-meetings.html

How do you give a convincing presentation to the top management of your company? Sylvie Verleye gives practical tips on how to survive the management team. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/151_presenting-to-the-management-team.html

A cocktail with chocolate milk; or how about, chocolate and cucumber? Strange flavor combinations that, oddly enough, hit the mark perfectly. The Belgian company, Foodpairing, is doing a research into flavors that provide new sensations. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/147_foodpairing.html

Almost everything in this world is automated these days. Yet, so few event marketers are automating their marketing processes. Nicola Rossetti is calling in to talk about what event marketing automation can do for you and where to begin. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/142_event-marketing-automation.html

Organizing great events is about more than having the right skills and experience. It's about people. Your event crew needs to gel as a team, be passionate about what they do and know why they do it. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/138_the-perfect-event-team-dealing-with-people.html

Getting people to sign up for a conference or an event is an art and a science. You have to persuade them to do so. The good news is, academics have been studying the science of persuasion for decades, and we can learn a lot from their experimental findin - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/130_science-of-persuasion-for-event-managers.html

A couple of months ago I had Ovanes Ovanessian, organiser of the Eventex Awards, in our studio to introduce their new awards for the event industry. Today, he will reveal the winners of the worldwide event competition. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/114_winners-eventex-awards.html

Have you always wanted to how our brain works? Why a brainstorming session is the worst way to be creative? Paul Smit is a comedian and a frequent speaker at conferences who knows all about our brain and creativity. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/123_how-does-our-creative-brain-work.html

Not paying attention to micro expressions chases customers away. A striking statement by Patryk and Kasia in their book, body language. Kevin asks them how it works. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/117_body-language-stop-chasing-away-customers.html

When organizing events your to-do list seems endless. Your mailbox overflows and you don't know what to do first. How to handle all those tasks on time? Kevin asks it to bestselling author David Allen who wrote the book 'Getting things done'. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/110_getting-things-done.html

Why would you spend money on a moderator for a conference if your director can do the job as well? Kevin asks it to Jan-Jaap In der Maur who is a professional event moderator himself. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/106_event-moderators-why-would-you-hire-one.html

Kevin is delighted to have Paul Van Deventer calling in for this interview. Paul was recently elected president of MPI. What are in his opinion the biggest challenges for the meeting industry? - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/104_mpis-new-president-on-future-of-meeting-industry.html

Jon Petz doesn't like boring meetings. He even wrote a book on the subject. Today he is here in our studio to inspire you to have more entertaining meetings. Hopefully he doesn't bore you. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/100_boring-meetings-suck.html

To organize a strong conference or an event it is not enough to have good event manager who arranges all the logistics. According to Maarten Vanneste you also need a meeting architect. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/98_meeting-architecture.html

The Annual Fresh Conference for the meeting industry is a playground for testing new ideas and concepts. Maarten Vanneste, the organizer of the conference shares some interesting experiments in this case study. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/97_case-study-fresh-conference.html

How can event logistics help you get higher satisfaction scores? And, at the same time, increase your profit margins? Kevin asks it to Maarten van Rijn. - Find the video & show notes here: https://www.eventplanner.net/tv/91_more-profit-with-event-logistics.html