Great Events

There’s a surge of interest for organizations to build more sustainable meetings and events programs. But how do we do it effectively and avoid greenwashing? On this episode, host Alyssa Peltier is joined by Kris Justice, Senior Manager on the Cvent Enterprise Client Success Team, and Ben Quarrell, the Co-founder of Isla and Trace, the carbon measurement platform. To get the planet where it needs...

Meeting Professionals International produces one of the biggest event professional conferences every year and they recently celebrated MPI's 50th anniversary at The World Education Conference’s (WEC) in San Francisco. Creating an event for event planners is no small feat. What does it take to pull off? We’ve got two MPI experts to share the tricks of the trade. Melinda Burdette, Senior Director of...

If you’re planning an event for people in the event planning industry, you better bring your A-game. In this episode, two of Cvent’s Meeting and Event Planning stars, Kayla Sommers and Sam Efthimiades, join us to share their secrets on how they were able to wow the company’s top performers at our Business Leaders Retreat. Listen in to hear how treating everyone like a VIP is more about personaliza...

IMEX Frankfurt is one of the biggest events for hospitality and event professionals. With their 20th year anniversary this year, they had 100 countries represented and over 11,000 attendees. It is the place to be for anyone looking to learn more about the industry, get a sneak peek at innovation, and hear from industry-leading professionals. But don’t worry if you weren’t able to attend. In this e...

Virtual events or in-person events? Why choose when you can take the best of both worlds and go hybrid! Kelli Kopec, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cvent and Lauren Allison, Lead Meeting and Event Planner at Cvent join Paulina on this episode to discuss another event that was a smash hit - the Cvent Travel Summit. The coolest part? It morphed from being an entirely virtual event to a hybrid o...

We’ve spent the last couple of years mastering virtual and then hybrid events, but now big, beautiful, in-person events are back! And the possibilities are endless. In this episode, our hosts Alyssa, Rachel, and Paulina discuss the new approaches being taken when planning massive events, both in the B2B and B2C spheres. Throughout the conversation, you’ll learn about the focus on incorporating tec...

CMP, CGMP, PMP, CMM…Do you already have tons of acronyms after your title? Or are you thinking about adding some? In this episode we’re joined by Amanda Young, Owner of Young Events Consulting and Nari Courtney, Senior Marketing Manager at Cvent, to discuss professional development. As you listen, you’ll learn about the different educational and advancement opportunities available. You’ll also gai...

Felica Asiedu is the Senior Marketing Manager in Europe for Cvent, and on this episode she joins the gang to discuss the trends she’s seeing with events at a global scale. Since COVID, the way we tackle events is different. This includes basic logistic complications but also behavioral changes. Things like drinking gallons of coffee because you’re used to having your coffee pot next to you or taki...

The crew at Cvent just participated in a pretty noteworthy conference, the Forrester B2B Summit, and we want to tell you all about it! It's a third-party consultant agency that allows us to get out of the sales pitches and really talk about marketing as a whole. Pretty awesome stuff. So, on the show today Alyssa is joined by Christine Kelly, a team lead of the Marketing Technology team at Cvent, a...

This is a special live episode from the annual Cvent CONNECT conference for event professionals, marketers, and engagement experts. Listen in as Alyssa, Paulina, and Rachel share some of their highlights from past years and dish out advice on making the most of networking opportunities. Our trio is loving how much human connections are making a comeback in the industry so they can go out and do ep...

COVID-19 and quarantine are fading like distant memories, and events, both internal and external, are on the rise. So how should you be thinking about your internal events to get the most impact? Rachel and Paulina get behind the mic to share lessons learned from the internal events they’ve kicked off for Cvent this year. Listen in to hear the creative ways they’ve been able to give attendees the...

Since 2019, the average user has watched over 100 minutes of video content per day. That’s a lot of time, which is why it’s so important to think about video as a part of your marketing strategy. In this episode, hosts Alyssa, Rachel, and Paulina discuss how events and video converge, creating a bigger picture of your marketing strategy. Hint: it’s not just about capturing the video and putting it...

Great events create great brands, and it takes a village to create an event worthy of your company image. Meet your village: Paulina, Alyssa, Rachel, and Brock. They’re part of the team behind CVENT, and your hosts for the Great Events podcast.

Meet Rachel Andrews, Senior Director of Meetings and Events at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. Overseeing over 1,000 global events a year, she is an expert in turning chaos into something beautiful. Rachel loves bringing people together in a meaningful way, enabling her to deliver amazing events with a purpose. In this episode, you’ll get to know Rachel–from her early model...

Meet Paulina Giusti, Senior Manager of Meetings and Events at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. From high-touch luxury meetings and VIP incentive programs, to large-scale conferences and trade shows, she is an expert in handling the “Invisible Workload” of planners, enabling her to deliver more successful events with a more balanced mindset. In this episode, you’ll get to kno...

Meet Alyssa Peltier, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. Alyssa helps enterprise organizations and Cvent consultants tell the story of how planning, meetings and events, and marketing organizations can work together to achieve growth outcomes. In this episode, you’ll get to know Alyssa–from her month working on a vineyard in France, to her...

For our last installment of our six-part series, we are talking all about post event activation. Our speakers, Manpreet Kaur, Director of Meetings and Events at Cvent, and Robin Clark, Manager of Trade Shows and Events at Cvent, talk us through everything they do to make sure that the data collected at Cvent CONNECT 2021 is used in an effective way to make the event that much more successful. List...

Let's talk about tech! In this episode we talk to our tech experts on what it really takes to put on a hybrid event.  In our fifth installment of our six-part series of going behind the scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021, we are talking all about technology. We are joined by our experts Taylor Bohn, Event Technology Lead at Cvent, David Heizer, Assistant Team Lead, Professional Services at Cvent, and Pa...

For part four of our six-part Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021 series, we talk to Lauren Allison, Kayla Sommers, Paulina Giusti, from our Meetings & Events team here at Cvent to get insights on how they worked with our partners and vendors on our hybrid event. Listen in to hear how they worked with the venue, AV company, and more to put saftey first and still make this event a great experie...

In this episode we are joined by Sam Efthimiades and Allyson Evancheck from our Meetings & Events team here at Cvent. They join us today to talk through everything that it takes to efficiently and effectively staff a hybrid event. Listen in to hear all their tips and tricks from staffing our annual event Cvent CONNECT 2021 which is hybrid this year. If you haven't already, you can still register t...

Listen in to episode two with Rachel Andrews, head of Meetings & Events here at Cvent, and Paulina Giusti, the Lead Planner for Cvent CONNECT 2021. In this episode we are talking all about the hybrid event design of Cvent CONNECT 2021. Stay tuned to hear all they had to say and keep up with our series so you don't miss any piece of what it takes to make Cvent CONNECT a hybrid event. If you haven't...

We're back to bring you a behind the scenes look at how we're putting on a hybrid Cvent CONNECT 2021. Listen in to hear how Cvent planners are preparing for our hybrid event as they are working on it! In this episode we are joined by Rachel Andrews, head of Meetings & Events here at Cvent, and Paulina Giusti, the Lead Planner for Cvent CONNECT 2021. They share with us the first steps in the making...

In this episode we talk to Sofia Leiva from 3Play Media about how to make events accessible in 2021. Accessibility is so important no matter what type of event you are having, but it is becoming especially important for virtual events. Our guest shares her best tips and tricks on how to make sure that everyone can take part in your event whether it is in-person or online. Tune in to hear how you c...

In this episode, we reconnected with another of our favorite guests, Mark Jeffries. He shared all his tips for having an engaging virtual event. As we caught up with Mark Jeffries, he filled us in on his new venture and how things have changed (or not) for an event MC. With all his experience with virtual events, Mark, has a lot of tips to keep your attendees engaged and how to tailor your event t...

In this episode, we sit down with one of our favorite guests, Brenda Ainsburg, from Siemens. Brenda shares with us how her first virtual event went, and everything she learned by putting on the event with a new virtual platform just 7 weeks before the first day of the event. Listen in to hear how even with the time crunch, learning curve, and many other obstacles that came up, Brenda still made th...