Name: INNOVATION & ENGAGEMENT SUMMIT APRIL 20, 2022
Start: 20/04/2022 03:00 PM +00:00
End: 20/04/2022 09:00 PM +00:00

Help Desk 

As long-time leaders in professional development and education for event professionals, our mission has always been to be a trusted source of resources and education for event professionals at any stage of their career. &nbsp;
We provide an extensive catalog of instructor-led, online certificate courses, webinars, on-demand video class library, and other resources to give planners, small teams, and large organizations the knowledge, practical insights, and skills to succeed professionally and personally.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Visit <a title="ELI" href="https://eventleadershipinstitute.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.eventleadershipinstitute.com</a> to see our upcoming course schedule, sign-up for the Event Leaders newsletter, download free resources, and more.

Event Leadership Institute

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) marks its 50th anniversary this year, celebrating the world&rsquo;s largest meeting and event industry community. It provides innovative and relevant education, networking opportunities and business exchanges, and acts as a prominent voice for the promotion and growth of the industry. MPI has a global community of 60,000 meeting and event professionals including nearly 13,000 members, 70 chapters and clubs and members in more than 75 countries. "When we meet, we change the world."

Hubilo is the virtual + hybrid event platform built for engagement and event excellence. Hubilo&rsquo;s mission is to drive engagement &ndash; first and foremost &ndash; yielding greater business results. Engagement with your deeply branded experience, paired with our proactive and full-time customer success team ensures every event run on the Hubilo platform executes perfectly every time.

Hubilo

We are a millennial-owned event and association management agency.
We are motivated by making a positive impact and delivering exceptional results. &nbsp; Redstone is proud to be one of the most innovative and strategic event and association management companies with a strong focus on digital events. We are tech-savvy and digital-obsessed. In a rapidly changing world, it&rsquo;s important to keep pace with digital technology to interact and engage with your audience &ndash; we&rsquo;ll do this for you. Redstone believes in the power of connecting people, no matter the format, and can help your organization thrive in today&rsquo;s fast-paced and competitive market by integrating the latest technologies into your live, hybrid and virtual events.

Redstone Agency

Bright Business Media, LLC&rsquo;s mission is to provide the tools meeting planners need to make their job easier. Smart Meetings is designed to be useful, easy to read, educational and fun. The publication is the essential tool for thriving in the coming event evolution.
Smart Meetings and SmartMeetings.com set the standard for the meetings industry. Articles feature the latest in industry trends, corporate event planning and emerging virtual and hybrid technology, as well as personality profiles on industry leaders and updates on the best venues and destinations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and many other major international destinations. Smart Meetings is committed to providing meeting planners with useful information in an accessible, attractive and engaging format.
Smart Meetings also created the original one-on-one-appointment meetings with Smart Experiences, held monthly across North America. These exclusive one- and three-day events gather meeting planners and suppliers together in a casual, intimate atmosphere where they are given numerous opportunities to network, develop their careers and book business.

Smart Meetings

DAHLIA+Agency is a brand + experience + marketing agency. Our merry band of competitive masterminds have crafted and executed inspired, authoritative and provoking campaigns delivering exponential, winning results.
Utilizing a Theory of Mind approach we walk in your audience's oxfords, pumas, pumps, and flip-flops - deliver relevant and actionable messages, expertly crafted for their attention investment by media channels. Ultimately, we construct a foundation for 365 days of engagement and layer the glue for your content stickiness.
Our strategists, creatives, and geeks become integral members of your team - working together in concert to achieve your goals, objectives, and success.

DAHLIA+Agency

During our virtual event, learn from the best experts in our industry about evolving technologies, event innovations, and the science of engagement and discover how you can reinvent and reimagine your events.
What to Expect
<ul>
<li>Best ways to use new technology solutions</li>
<li>How to read your event's crystal ball</li>
<li>Ways to reinvent and reimagine your events with an innovation mindset</li>
<li>Deeper dive into emerging trends like holograms, drones, and AI...oh my!</li>
<li>How to maximize meaningful connections at hybrid, virtual, and in-person events</li>
<li>Master the mystery of the event metaverse</li>
</ul>
 Key Take-Aways
<ul>
<li>You will be able to fluently advise your clients on emerging technology</li>
<li>You will be able to use new business models to define revenue streams</li>
<li>You start to use tips and technology hacks now and into the future</li>
<li>Your team will be prepared for disruptions and complications</li>
<li>You will think about the "so what" in every headline and how it will impact your events</li>
<li>You will think like a futurist</li>
</ul>

Innovation & Engagement Summit Main Stage

Howard Givner

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Nothing captures our collective imagination quite like emerging technologies, but as quickly as innovations such as Gamification become part of our everyday, other promising tech like Google Glasses&hellip;. fades into obscurity. Will Curran, DES, Founder &amp; Chief Event Einstein | Endless Events and Brandt Krueger, Technical Producer and Instructor | Event Leadership Institute presents a live, rapid fire discussion with audience interaction on what&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hot&rdquo; or &ldquo;Hype&rdquo;, and a compact assessment of the winning inventions.

Brandt Krueger

Will Curran

Hot or Hype? NFTs, Smart Glasses, Facial Recognition, Blockchain, Metaverse & More: Dissecting the Latest Innovations & their Implications for Events 

The fight for the audience&rsquo;s attention is fierce, and events clients in every industry feel this. Learn how to get that winning touch &ndash; engagement &ndash; and distinguish yourself. Hosted by Tammy Kockaya, Chief Strategy &amp; Growth Officer |ELI, Panelists including Sophie Ahmed, SVP Market Strategy | Hubilo, Lori Allen, VP Global Event Operations | MetLife and Chandra Champion, MSSA, CNM, National WIC Association, share their tips on creative event design and how to reimagine the standardized events and stand out from the crowd.&nbsp;

Tammy Kockaya, CMP, CMM

Sophie Ahmed

Chandra Champion

Lori Allen

Designing Your Event for Maximum Engagement: Case Studies from the Cutting Edge

Once home to scientists in Sci-Fi or Superhero movies, the Metaverse brings a new level of mesmerizing your audience through stunning audiovisual experiences. 20 year virtual reality veteran, Danny Stefanic, CEO | MootUp, dissects the world of immersive virtual conferences, with a deep dive into the Metaverse and its uses and applications for your events and your clients.&nbsp;

Danny Stefanic

The Metaverse Deconstructed: Event Applications & Best Practices

Think it&rsquo;s hard to become go-to experts in live streaming and broadcasting hybrid and virtual events? Larry O'Reilly, CEO | ARHT Media will unravel the mysteries of new-era tools including Holograms and Virtual Global Stages, so you can think beyond your current limitations and offer creative, forward-thinking speaker solutions to make traditional live streaming events special. Larry will be sharing real-time experiences from Event Planners who have stepped up to challenges of the Hybrid World creating a visual, and experiential adventure for everyone involved.&nbsp;

Larry O'Reilly

Holograms & Virtual Stages: Alternative Ways to Present Remote Speakers

Take a moment ~ Short Break ~&nbsp;
What happens if you don&rsquo;t schedule breaks during online meetings? Let&rsquo;s explore this. Read the rest of this article at: https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/05/schedule-breaks-during-online-meetings/
&nbsp;

Take a moment ~ Short Break 

Intel&rsquo;s refreshing, digital-first CES&reg; programs reveal what rich B2B digital experiences can bring to a brand and target audiences. Victor Torregroza, Experiences &amp; Events Program Manager, Intel Corp., will take you behind-the-scenes of the most memorable moments from the all-digital CES&reg; 2021 and hybrid activation at CES&reg; 2022&rsquo;s. He&rsquo;ll share how a digital-first approach with purposeful moments can create memorable experiences.

Victor Torregroza

Performance Art & Cutting-Edge Tech:  How Intel Engaged Virtual & In-Person Audiences at CES

Preparing for the future isn&rsquo;t about saying with certainty that &ldquo;this is what is going to happen,&rdquo; but about being primed for the &ldquo;what if?&rdquo;. Beth Surmont, CAE, CMP, Vice President Event Strategy &amp; Design, | 360 Live, believes "We&rsquo;re planners! " and we can set ourselves up to be our own predictors of the future with strategic thinking and a simple shift of mindset.

Beth Surmont, CAE, CMP

Thinking Like A Futurist: Nurturing An Innovation Mindset In Your Team

Forget the traditional one-off, in-person event. Welcome to a new world, where event organizers no longer see themselves as pure organizers; rather their role is to facilitate - business, connections, education and advocacy. Marco Giberti Marco Giberti, co-author of Reinventing Live takes you behind the scenes with his his views about the opportunities for event organizers leveraging technology and innovation and creating new business models for their events.

Marco Giberti

New Business Models for the Events Industry

Dust out your magic wand, and join Dahlia in this session to learn some tricks about how to create happy attendees &ndash; the key to happy sponsors and successful events. We&rsquo;ll talk about engagement beyond the 3 common ways so you can inject your events with energy, fun and memorable moments!

Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, ECC, EWD

Cast a Spell for Happy Attendees: Become an Engagement Wizard

Matt Homann&rsquo;s passion is helping people think, meet and learn together better. A life-long entrepreneur, he&rsquo;s working to reinvent the meeting, redesign old processes and create the case for change. (will be updated)

Matthew Homann

Reinventing Your Signature Event: An Innovation Methodology Blueprint

Braindate is fast becoming the leading solution for events worldwide who want to provide more than just networking for their participants. &nbsp;Smriti Bansal, Head of Content at e-180, the inventors of Braindate, will take you on the journey on how the braindate app can boost your lead generation and your business development by creating conversations that participants can have one-on-one or in a group, on a topic of their choice, at live, virtual, and hybrid events.&nbsp;

Smiriti Bansal

Cracking the Code on Facilitated Networking (Virtual & In-Person) & Recaps and Closing Remarks

The ability to develop empathy is at the very foundation of design thinking, and the disciplines focused on customer experience design. Naomi Clare Crellin, Founder &amp; CEO at StoryCraft Lab, will help you develop a deeper understanding of your audiences, and how you can create the best solutions to meet their needs.&nbsp; More details to follow...

INNOVATION & ENGAGEMENT SUMMIT APRIL 20, 2022