How to Deliver Outstanding Events that Creates Engagement and Memorable Experiences

Stephen Handisides
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Stephen gets up close and personal with events and marketing experts around the world to uncover their secret sauce to creating spectacular memorable events and experiences. How businesses today are looking to enhance engagement, education and conversion by supporting their in-person events and marketing efforts online. How different industries such as healthcare, education, government, sports, tourism, retail are using technology to achieve scale and profitability alongside their in-person events. How associations can increase their memberships and revenue opportunities with sponsors by driving engagement in and around their events. Free tools and resources that are available to events organizers that can help automate their hybrid events to give everyone involved a seamless, stress free experience. This Podcast series is brought to you by V-Unite Virtual Experiences.

  1. How To Successfully Implement Virtual Events Into Your Organization

    07/04/2022

    How To Successfully Implement Virtual Events Into Your Organization

    Desiree Dolecki, CMP, is the director of conferences & events for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, a 501(c)3 with a mission to inspire a commitment to enterprise excellence through experiential learning by bringing people together to share, learn and grow. In this role she creates event environments that foster learning for both virtual and in person audiences.   During her 20+ year career she has worked as an event professional in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. Before joining AME, Desiree was the director of meeting planning at WJ Weiser & Associates, an association management company, planning and executing medial meetings. Prior to that, she was an event manager with Walgreens for over 14 years, where she led a team who aligned event management and planning to corporate strategy and initiatives.  Desiree obtained her bachelor’s degree in advertising and design and is an eternal student, continuing to earn certificates and designations in her field that support the passion of her work.       She is married, has one daughter, and currently resides in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Her interests include traveling, spending time with family and volunteering at the local food pantry.

    29 min
  2. Secret Sauce and Innovative Ways to hosting Hybrid Events

    05/09/2022

    Secret Sauce and Innovative Ways to hosting Hybrid Events

    Stefanie Ramirez became the Senior Director of Corporate Events & Employee Experience for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises in September of 2019.  Prior to serving as the Senior Director of Corporate Events & Employee Experience, Stefanie served as the Manager of Events and Talent Relations for Telemundo Communications Group LLC (NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises’ corporate predecessor).  In this role, she also conceptualized, developed, and executed all of the Telemundo television network’s events, which included managing all of the logistical efforts related to the event execution, negotiating service agreements with vendors supporting the event, and coordinating internal (e.g., audiovisual, marketing, sales, and publicity departments) and external (e.g., third-party vendors) stakeholder’s contributions.  In addition, she coordinated all talent-related promotional and cross-promotional activities, public appearances, and arranged for the talents’ participation in such activities, including servicing their travel and glam needs from a logistical perspective.

    11 min
  3. Bringing coffee enthusiasts from around the world together through inspirational events, training & networking opportunities

    05/03/2022

    Bringing coffee enthusiasts from around the world together through inspirational events, training & networking opportunities

    Phillip Di Bella is a Director at the Di Bella Group of Companies Phillip Di Bella is a highly respected business entrepreneur with a unique ability to visualise and commercialise what many others never see.  Though initially known for the establishment of Di Bella Coffee, which became Australia’s largest speciality coffee company, Phillip’s entrepreneurial spirit has brought success to other businesses such as International Coffee Traders, Abbotsford Road Specialty Coffee in New York, and more recently The Coffee Commune. Not satisfied with simply focusing on building his own successful businesses, Phillip has dedicated much time to supporting the growth and development of other businesses.  Often referred to as an “Entrepreneur in Residence”, Phillip regularly lends his strategic thinking to businesses such as BDO Consulting, helping their clients overcome challenges, see new opportunities, and then supporting the commercialisation of these solutions. Phillip has further extended his commitment to the coaching and mentoring of other businesses through the establishment of The Coffee Commune - a business dedicated to the long term development,  sustainability and success of the broader coffee industry for all participants. Through The Coffee Commune Phillip enthusiastically shares his experience and knowledge of the coffee industry and continues his passion for encouraging improvement and inspiration in others.

    17 min

  4. 03/23/2022

    How to turn passive delegates into active participants

    Leslie is the Founder and CEO of Open Audience. He is an audience engagement specialist, who started the company in 2015 with a vision of making boring meetings more engaging. Before founding Open Audience, Leslie enjoyed a 26-year career with AstraZeneca, where he held many senior leadership roles around the world. Since establishing Open Audience, Leslie has delivered events and projects in-person, hybrid and virtually for the majority of the top 20 global healthcare organisations, across 6 continents.

    29 min

  5. 03/07/2022

    How to create outstanding events with a limited budget

    Nadja is an accomplished scientific and conference professional with 20+ years of international experience in private, government and the non-profit sector of established and start-up organisations. She studied Medical Laboratory Science in Auckland, NZ then travelled abroad to London with the intention of moving into diagnostic sales.  With some valuable laboratory and sales experience under her belt, she then transferred to Lugano, Switzerland in 1997 and took a 2-year sabbatical to perfect her Italian, before settling into a role of medical marketing at Actamed Services for the next 8 years.  Her studies in Diagnostic Microbiology enabled her transition seamlessly into Medical Association Conferencing with the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology in 2010. During her 8 years with the Academy, she successfully led the Scientific Department and oversaw the implementation of the new scientific programme format. Her proudest moment was seeing numbers of delegates hit a record 13,000 during her last conference there. Currently she is an integral member of the Conference and Events team at Auckland University of Technology, NZ and has led a variety of International and Trans-Tasman Conferences, as well as the highly profiled ‘APEC Voices of the Future’ event during APEC Leaders week. She is also keen on helping others progress within the industry and has recently participated in both the NZ Events Association (NZEA) and Women in Events mentorship programmes. COVID-19 certainly hasn’t stopped her! Her interest in new technologies and their applications has now shifted to virtual conferencing and the various video conferencing platforms that make online events more interactive.

    24 min

  6. 02/21/2022

    Emily Dwyer Reveals Her Secret Sauce To Hosting Innovative Events At Creative HQ

    Emily is a passionate events’ creator with over 10 years of extensive events production and management experience. Em brings great ideas to life through stunning experiences. I explore the connections people make through interaction with places and people, with a focus on creating events and experiences. Currently, I lead the Creative HQ events' team in Wellington, New Zealand, which includes my role as Festival Director for the Mindset of Design festival. Previously, I led the development of New Zealand's first DevOps Conference. I also grew the annual events' programme and led the evolution of employee onboarding and workplace experience at BNZ Digital.

    32 min
  7. The Digital Age of Customer Engagement

    10/11/2021

    The Digital Age of Customer Engagement

    Kent Jenkins is the CEO and Founder of Sportzplanet. Sportzplanet is Asia's most dynamic sports advisory. They producing the most amazing and creative marketplace programs helping sporting organisations connect and engage in Asia.

    22 min
  8. Overcoming Challenges as an Event Organizer

    10/11/2021

    Overcoming Challenges as an Event Organizer

    Nadine Jones is the Founder and Managing Director of Rhino Events Group.The Rhino Events Group is Start to End Event Management company that can handle all facets of your event. In line with your vision, they create a detailed plan and execute your event with confidence and professionalism.

    34 min
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Stephen gets up close and personal with events and marketing experts around the world to uncover their secret sauce to creating spectacular memorable events and experiences. How businesses today are looking to enhance engagement, education and conversion by supporting their in-person events and marketing efforts online. How different industries such as healthcare, education, government, sports, tourism, retail are using technology to achieve scale and profitability alongside their in-person events. How associations can increase their memberships and revenue opportunities with sponsors by driving engagement in and around their events. Free tools and resources that are available to events organizers that can help automate their hybrid events to give everyone involved a seamless, stress free experience. This Podcast series is brought to you by V-Unite Virtual Experiences.

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