Event Industry News Podcast

The first Event Industry News podcast to be broadcast via Facebook Live saw event sales and marketing expert Nick Borelli join host James Dickson. Nick linked up with the podcast from his base in Ohio, USA, to discuss the recent changes to Facebook’s newsfeed.   Facebook has described the changes as a move designed to show users fewer ads and sponsored content but more posts from friends, pages an...

In this week’s episode of the Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson talks to golf professional turned event professional Michael Chamberlain. Michael runs the event agency Clubs Away, which specialises in organising bespoke golf events. With his experience as a pro-golfer, Michael’s unique offering means that in addition to organising an event, he also provides golf coaching as part of t...

Joining the Event Industry News podcast this week is CEO of G2Planet Mark Granovsky. From his base in California, Mark linked up with podcast host James Dickson to discuss the current trends in enterprise event management software, and to highlight the requests that are being made from organisers for how they would like systems to function. G2Planet has been established for 18 years, making them o...

Joining the Event Industry News podcast this week is Michael Balyasny, Founder of event management app developer Attendify. Michael joined host James Dickson to talk about the company’s giant leap into the unknown with the publication of their first product roadmap. During the episode, Michael explains exactly what the product map is, giving readers an insight into why it is such a gamble for the...

This week’s episode of the podcast welcomes Scott Vitale from Spigot Labs. Scott linked up with host James Dickson from his base in Denver, Colorado, to discuss the innovative tech that his company have developed for operators of beer festivals. In recent years the UK has seen a huge rise in real ale festivals, and the USA has developed a similar love for all things hoppy. The resulting beer festi...

In this week’s episode of the Event Industry News podcast, James Dickson talks to the CEO of Malo Events Bryan Cooney. At the start of January, the company announced that its Kidtropolis event would see an NEC edition added to its portfolio. The event is run during the school holidays and is centred around creating a large, vibrant play environment that caters for children up to the age of 12. Dur...

The Event Industry News podcast returns for 2018, and in the first episode of the year, it welcomes Samme Allen, MD of Sequoia Partnership. In this episode, host James Dickson talks to Samme about the new online venue diagnostics tool that her company has launched. The tool gives venues the chance to analyse their current event operations, and begin to generate some guidance on how they could impr...

In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson welcomes Maarten Vaneste, founder of Multi-Hub Meetings.   Created just two years ago, Multi-Hub Meetings has quickly developed a client portfolio that has seen the service deployed in places like Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea and across continental Europe.  The company has taken the idea of video conferencing and refined it, allowing...

Joining the Event Industry News podcast for the first time this week is Nick Watson from connectivity specialists Ruckus. As Vice President for EMEA, Nick’s experience puts him in an excellent position to comment and discuss the ongoing issue of connectivity at events, something that he talks about in detail in this episode. Having overseen major projects that have delivered Wi-Fi networks within...

This week, the Event Industry News podcast welcomes Digital Development Manager for Freeman, Tom Vamos. Tom manages a team of developers to deliver technology solutions for exhibitions and events. In this podcast, Tom discusses the current trends within the event tech sector and identifies the services being deployed for both event organisers and for attendees. With data use growing rapidly, and t...

With Event Tech Live only a few days away, the Event Industry News podcast invited co-founder Adam Parry on to talk about what we’ll see at this year’s event. The show is Europe’s only dedicated show for event tech, during the podcast Adam speaks about how important it has been for the organisers to maintain the strong identity that the event has developed. With a larger show floor and more exhibi...

Connectivity at events was the topic of discussion in the latest episode of the Event Industry News podcast. Gareth Hay, Head of Event Networks at DB Systems, joined host James Dickson to look at the issues surrounding venue Wi-Fi and how the company is tackling them. During the episode, Gareth revealed that each year the amount of data used by consumers increases three-fold, which means networks...

In another trans-Atlantic episode of the Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson is joined from Minneapolis by Brandon Klein, CEO of Collaboration AI. Having forged a successful career running events, Brandon saw an opportunity to utilise the data that was already available to organisers via the means of artificial intelligence systems. During the podcast, he explains how the system can be...

This week’s Event Industry News podcast welcomed John Martinez, CEO of event technology supplier Shocklogic. Joining the podcast live from a world congress event in Vienna, Austria, John analysed the methods being used to link event technology with security and safety. Having worked with organisations including the United Nations and the European Court of Justice, John’s experience in this sector...

We’ve all been to an event and queued for 20 minutes at the bar. Or visited a trade exhibition and waited in line for half an hour to buy a sandwich.  Like many other areas of event operations, the pre-ordering of food and drink is now possible via a specially designed digital platform, which is the core subject of this week’s podcast. Joining host James Dickson is Oliver White, Head of Customer S...

This week’s podcast welcomed representatives from three of London’s most well-known event venues. Joining host James Dickson was Julia Galbraith, Marketing Manager for Exhibitions at ExCeL London, Kate Simpson, Head of Conference & Digital at London’s Business Design Centre, and Jazmin Beale, Head of Marketing & Communications at Olympia London. It goes without saying that every event needs to mar...

If you’ve booked a hotel or a flight in the last few years, chances are you’ve come across Expedia. Having been launched in 1996, the website is one of the world’s leading online destinations for consumers and business travellers looking to book travel packages The company has now launched its first dedicated service for the meetings and conference industry. The service will allow organisers to qu...

Joining the podcast this week are two guests with a collective knowledge of how technology can streamline the process of event and meeting planning. CEO of Hubb Allison Magyar joined us from Portland, Oregon, whilst Social Tables' Senior Community Manager Laura Lopez joined us from Washington D.C. During the podcast, both Allison and Laura endorsed the idea of time investment, suggesting that the...

Joining the Event Industry News podcast this week is Dr Chris Kemp, who specialises in human movement and has a PhD in cognitive psychology. Back in January, Chris organised a focus group comprising 43 European Festivals and a group of 14-16 year old festival goers who got together to identify how in-touch the events were with their younger customers. The session highlighted an alarming number of...

Media outlets in the USA have reported on a study that reveals that the role of event co-ordinator is in the top five most stressful jobs. In light of this coverage, the issue of health and wellbeing within our industry was the topic of conversation in the latest Event Industry News podcast.  Joining host James Dickson, the podcast welcomed back President of the ILEA UK Chapter Alistair Turner, an...

This week’s Podcast welcomed Director of Broadcasting at Zut, Chris Holmes. He joined the show to talk about the various social media live streaming platforms and how they can be deployed successfully by event organisers. During the podcast, Chris talked about the quality of content that can be put out and how organisers can best amplify their events down these channels. He also spoke about how th...

In the second of our General Election reaction podcasts, Event Industry News welcomes two more guests offering their views and opinions of how the result could affect the event industry.   Podcast host James Dickson was joined by Director of Brookhouse Ltd David Phillips, a B2B Events & Marketing Consultant, and Nick Wright, a Teaching Fellow in EU Politics at University College, London. Nick’s hi...

Following on from last week’s post-General Election special edition, the Event Industry News podcast continues the political debate by looking at how UK music festivals and the live music touring industries could be affected by a ‘hard’ Brexit. Joining host James Dickson was Parcel Hero’s Head of Consumer Research David Jinks. As a specialist price comparison site, Parcel Hero act as an online bro...

Last week the country was thrown into turmoil as the General Election returned a hung parliament. Amid growing uncertainty in the business world, what does this election result mean for the events industry? In a special edition of the Event Industry News podcast recorded on Monday 12th June, host James Dickson welcomed two guests who lead significant companies within the industry, both of whom hav...

This week’s Event Industry News podcast welcomed Media 10’s Giles Perry to discuss the ingredients used to create and drive this established brand. During an engaging conversation with host James Dickson, Giles talked about the challenges of moving the show between various venues including Olympia London, EventCity in Manchester and the SEC, Glasgow. Giles also stressed the importance of understan...