Events have been cancelled across the globe, from MWC in Barcelona to SxSW. TED has been delayed and TEDx events postponed across the world. How we respond now and have responded as event producers will set us apart from those who were slow to pivot. You have to seize this moment of change.
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We gathered together a small community of creatives, adventurers, strategists and explorers from the creative, digital and tech sectors in and around Winchester for Tea & Toast. A simple idea, but connecting people, over food and building relationship is one of our values at Autumn Live. We absolutely loved it, and we think the community did too.
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Organising an event is pretty easy right? We’ve all hosted a party or two, got some mates together for a drink or organised a birthday celebration meal. We may have even organised our own wedding – stress free and easy right?
Sometimes. Sometimes it’s not so straightforward.
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“Make sure you sign your radio in and out each day” used to be a phrase I would use all the time in my event briefings. There has been the occasional last minute panic when we thought we’d forgotten to order radios – just to clarify though – it never happened. But that just highlights how critical event comms are! Let’s explore how WhatsApp has revolutionised event comms. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. You can read more about other apps here.
Can you imagine not being able to communicate quickly and discreetly with the whole event team?
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At the time of writing this week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme for 2018 is “stress”. This seems like a good opportunity to tell my story and highlight why we need to talk about and act on stress much more than we do currently. …
Experts predict that, unless we intervene now, by 2040 the percentage of women employed in the tech and digital industries will be just 1%.
As the influence of the tech and digital sector increases within the UK economy, having so few women working in this sector will have a huge impact on the employability of half the workforce! …
Last week we delivered the Binary Festival 2018, a creative, digital and tech conference. We gathered together communities of people in those industries building and making something incredible in Liverpool, the city region and across the North of England. …
The best part of the event is build up. This is the day before the event. Christmas Eve Eve if you like. Everything starts to happen tomorrow, the tech guys will turn up at Hinterlands and will build the stage, install the lighting and make everything sound amazing. There will be final badge making, setting up registration and the inevitable requests of “Can I change my gathering?”. I will take all this in my stride, because we are onsite. …
It’s just a little over 2 weeks until the Liverpool Binary Festival takes place.
It’s the second time we have delivered this event and I absolutely LOVE producing this one. It enables me to connect with people – some I’ve known for years and others I’m just meeting for the first time. …
From Harry, William & Kate’s Heads Together Campaign and thousands of runners in this year’s marathon, to high profile business professionals discussing their own experiences of mental illness, mental health has never been such a widely talked about topic. But what does this mean for you? Here’s our top 5 mental health resources… …