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Take 5: Industry Underrepresentation

SmartMeetings

Lyn Lewis-Smith has been a leader and a visionary in the Sydney, Australia , events industry and is now a events speaker regarding the gender underrepresentation issue. Q: Why was it important to you to become a speaker who focuses on the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles within the meetings and events industry?

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Accelerating the Pivot to Virtual Events

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Keena cited Salesforce’s recent Sydney, Australia, event, which historically has about 10,000 attendees. Digital events can be broken down into four components: content, community, sponsorship and analytics. While content is about the speaker, the message and correct video format, it’s also about creating a shared experience.

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12 Imaginative Events from Salesforce

Bizzabo

The 2018 event welcomed over 170,000 attendees, well-known speakers (like former U.S. Event goers hear from top speakers, engage in networking sessions, get access to hands-on training sessions, and more. In 2019 the conference series will visit six cities: Atlanta, San Francisco, Sydney, Chicago, New York, and London.

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Virtual Conferences and Events: The 2020 Guide

Bizzabo

Virtual events allow event organizers, speakers, attendees, and sponsors to interact remotely through a virtual environment. As an example, Salesforce quickly pivoted their Sydney World Tour in-person event to a virtual format. A strategic point of success for virtual events are delivering the most targeted content and speakers.

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10 Visionary Event Roadshow Examples

Bizzabo

Nail Your Speaker Lineup. One thing this event series did extremely well was curate a roster of great speakers. First, they had their standard speakers that traveled to each location and delivered a similar keynote to the crowds at each stop. Yext also did a great job of bringing in unique speakers for each location as well.

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Virtual Conferences: The 2021 Guide

Bizzabo

The virtual conference was a great success and consisted of 50,000+ Cloud and SaaS experts, 50+ speakers, 5000+ braindates, and 1-on-1 networking opportunities. These same community features make it possible for attendees to communicate with speakers and sponsors, allowing them to get more value out of the experience. Source: Bizzabo.

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12 Imaginative Events and Activations from Rakuten

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Rakuten Dealmaker is an event series with planned stops in cities such as Scottsdale, New York, London, and Sydney in 2020 (pending federal and state public health and safety guidelines). You book the perfect venue, plan the right mix of educational content and entertainment options, and secure amazing speakers. Rakuten DealMaker.