Event Industry News Podcast

In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, James Dickson talks to Val Tsanev from Conference Pulse, a software platform designed to help event organisers source sponsors. By compiling the details of sponsors from a huge range of events, Conference Pulse allows users to identify companies and organisations that are potentially relevant to them. With so many business events available in so many dif...

Following our special series to coincide with the Event Wellbeing Week 2018, the Event Industry News podcast resumes with an episode looking at the growth of tech events within London. Joining host James Dickson are two guests who represent organisations at the very heart of the thriving sector. Tracy Halliwell is the Director of Tourism, Conventions and Special Events at London & Partners, and Ja...

Starting from Monday 17th September, the Event Industry News podcast will publish a special episode each day to coincide with Event Wellbeing Week 2018. The five-part series began with Helen Moon, founder of Event Well. On today’s episode, host James Dickson talks to Emily Fawell from Vital Health Nutrition. Emily is a nutritional therapist and has been delivering nutrition and wellbeing mastercla...

Starting from Monday 17th September, the Event Industry News podcast will publish a special episode each day to coincide with Event Wellbeing Week 2018. The five-part series began with Helen Moon, founder of Event Well. Today’s guest is Melissa Noakes. Melissa has worked in the events industry for over 15 years, with significant experience in both the agency and client side of the sector. Her empl...

Starting from Monday 17th September, the Event Industry News podcast will publish a special episode each day to coincide with Event Wellbeing Week 2018. The five part series began with Helen Moon, founder of EventWell.  Today’s guest is Mark Maher, events director for Boulevard Events. Mark has been involved with EventWell since the project’s early days, and is a keen advocate of maintaining a hea...

Starting from Monday 17th 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 th...

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 develop...

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 relian...

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...

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 e...

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...

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 cre...

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...

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 ta...

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 o...

On this week’s episode of the Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson welcomes not one but two guests to the show. Zaynab Zubair was tasked with delivering a business conference for the Arriva transport organisation, and James Rees is the Executive Director for conferences and events at ExCeL London. The guests came on the podcast to discuss CentrEd, the dedicated conference facility withi...

In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson welcomes Rob Murdoch to the show.  Rob is the founder of Exposure Analytics, a company that has developed accurate means to measure the interaction and dwell time of attendees at events. In an increasingly digital world where marketing managers can measure likes, clicks, shares, time spent on websites, email open rates, and so much mor...

Joining the podcast this week is founder of Open Audience and Open Meet Leslie Robertson. Leslie joined host James Dickson to look at how technology is allowing event organisers to deliver multi-lingual events. With so many events catering for international visitors, the ability to translate content quickly and efficiently into multiple languages offers huge potential for organisers. During the ep...

Joining James Dickson on the Event Industry News podcast this week is DRP Group’s Head of Insight & Innovation Callum Gill.  The podcast focused on the societal change that has been driven by millennials and Generation Z, and how events now represent levels of social acceptance among young people. As Callum explains at the very start of the episode, in a climate where many young people don’t own c...

In the latest Event Industry News podcast, James Dickson talks to Mariska Kesteloo about the evolving benefit of utilising social media influencers as a marketing tool for events. Over the last couple of years, Mariska has been building a network of influencers from across the world. These influencers include Instagrammers, YouTubers and bloggers who may be able to provide a positive impact on an...

The latest EIN live podcast welcomed Kevin Jackson back to show. Kevin joined host James Dickson to discuss his new book ‘There’s no such thing as sales’, the current work he does with brands and businesses, and the Muslim Lifestyle Show that he launched three years ago. Kevin has long endorsed the message of ‘the experience is the marketing’, and during this episode, he reinforces his opinion tha...

Joining the Event Industry News podcast this week is Ed Templeton from Shuttlecock Inc. Ed joins host James Dickson to talk about Neverland Spring Break, an immersive event experience that Shuttlecock created in the heart of London. Running for just three days, Shuttlecock Inc transformed a photographic studio building into a reimagined version of Neverland, complete with Hipster Lost Boys and a g...

The demand for festivals has grown enormously in the last few years. However, it’s not just music lovers that are being catered for by event organisers. In recent times we’ve seen festivals covering areas of interest including; cars, gin, food, YouTube, and video gaming. In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, James Dickson welcomes an organiser of one such festival to the show. Ali Sheik is p...

The countdown to GDPR is well underway and over the coming weeks, special episodes of the Event Industry News podcast will be talking to various professionals about the impact the new laws will have on the industry. Having already spoken to Cvent’s David Chalmers, this week’s episode welcomes Henry Herbert from Herbert & Ball LLP. Henry is a former solicitor who now works as a specialist Data Prot...

On the 25th May this year the UK will adopt new EU laws governing the way that organisations manage personal data. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will replace the existing Data Protection Act and aim to clamp down on the misuse of personal data and improve the way information is both captured and stored. Over the coming weeks, the Event Industry News podcast will be talking to even...