| Marie-claire Andrews AUS ShowGizmo Presentation Topic: Apps for Events
Presentation Title: Apps for events: he smart, the sad and the sexy Download the Presentation Slides
Marie-Claire is the CEO of New Zealand based SmartShow Ltd (creators of ShowGizmo) She and the team have been mobilising events around the world since early last year - making them one of the oldest mobile app companies in the events industry...!
Her passions are for business development, technology sales and capital raising - Marie-Claire was the establishment General Manager of Wellington's Angel investment network and her ‘girl geek’ status was confirmed through her appointment as chair of Unlimited Potential – New Zealand’s leading technology business network, a position she held for two years. Prior to SmartShow, Marie-Claire was involved with Virtual Expos NZ, providing virtual events technology to event producers of career fairs and industry showcases.
When she's not travelling to events in Bahrain, Dubai, Australia or the UK she's renovating a 60ft fishing trawler, on which she lives with her partner and cat. | |
| Corbin Ball US http://www.corbinball.com/ Presentation Topic: Event Technology Presentation Title: Technology Trends: Transforming Events Corbin Ball (CS, CMP, MS), is an international speaker, consultant and writer
helping clients worldwide use technology to save time and improve productivity.
With 20 years of experience running international technology meetings, he now
is a highly acclaimed speaker with the ability to make complex subjects
understandable and fun. His articles have appeared in hundreds of
national and international publications and he has been quoted in
the US and News Report, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,
USA Today, Fast Company, PC Magazine and
others. Corbin serves or has served on numerous hotel, corporate,
convention bureau and association boards. He is the only person to have
received both the MPI International Supplier of the Year and the MPI
International Chapter Leader of the Year awards. Corbin has been named for four
consecutive years as one of "The 25 Most Influential People in the
Meetings Industry" by MeetingNews Magazine. | |
| Mitchell Beer Canada The Conference Publishers Inc Presentation Topic: Event Sustainability
Presentation Title: How Eventprofs can save the World Download the Presentation Slides
Mitchell Beer is President of The Conference Publishers Inc. www.theconferencepublishers.com, a firm that has produced online and printed content for more than 3,000 conferences, in more than 200 communities, and in 18 countries, since its formation in October, 1984.
He was a member of the international board of the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) from 2009 to 2011, and is currently the founding chair of the GMIC Sustainable Meetings Foundation. Beer served as project manager for MPI's study of the economic impact of meetings and events in Canada. He has produced a wide variety of strategic and technical publications for MPI, including a 2007 white paper on onsite learning strategies and the 2010 Meetings Deliver, white paper, PowerPoint, and chapter action guide. Beer traces his work as a renewable energy/energy efficiency communicator back to 1977, and has been instrumental in establishing sustainability as one of his company's three main areas of practice. His subject specialties within the sustainability field include climate change, peak oil, and the transition to sustainable energy systems. He completed the global Certification in Meetings Management (CMM) in 2003. | |
| Deirdre Brannick AUS Crowd Comms Presentation Topic: Apps for Events
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Working in the forefront of event technology for the past decade, Deirdre co-founded crowdcomms early in 2011.
With offices in Australia, Singapore and the UK, crowdcomms specialises in delivering mobile web apps
for conferences, fundraising events and exhibitions. Before heading up crowdcomms Deirdre set up
an office for a leading interactive keypad provider in Hong Kong and also worked as a sales director
in their North American & Australian offices. Originally from Ireland, Deirdre now calls Sydney home. | |
| Yvonne Collier Presentation Topic: Event Facilitation
Presentation Title: Effective flexible event facilitation
As an international educator with more than 30 years experience
training, facilitating and speaking, Yvonne Collier helps people
produce productive and profitable relationships at work and play.
Yvonne Collier CSP is a People's Skills Expert. Her topic is Assertive
Skills, and How to Best Get Along with People to improve the bottom
line.
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| Paul Cook UK Planet Planit Presentation Topic: Risk Management Presentation Title: Risking your hybrid event Download the Presentation Slides
He is fascinated and excited by hybrid events. He believes that his work at Pinewood Film Studios and in the events industry have led him naturally to developing a business in the world of hybrid events. Paul was instrumental in the experimentation event; Event Camp Europe in 2011, and he is an evangelist of hybrid events. He has created and developed businesses (Planet Planit and Clarity Event Insurance), competitions and campaigns specifically for the events industry. Paul is co - author of Risk It! - How to Run Great Events and Live with the Risk and he speaks at universities, association events, national and international exhibitions on the subject of event risk planning and hybrid event risk planning. | |
| Gabriel Engel NZ MEA Mobile/ShowGizmo Presentation Topic: Event Technology
Presentation Topic: Developing event technology Download the Presentation Slides
Gabriel Engel is ShowGizmo's CTO, future thinker and app inspirer. He doesn't look that old, but he has a long history in the technology sector - his experience includes raising substantial investment capital for start-ups both locally and internationally from public and private institutions, and is one of the co-founders of a US public company. He is a strong market driven innovator and carefully manages early stage rapid prototyping and product development. Gabriel is the inventor of over 30 granted patents. | |
| Pete Eyre Managing Director IML Australia and New Zealand Pete is passionate about making meeting and events interactive. A keen interest in travel and background in multimedia technologies drew him to IML UK where he spent five years hopping round the world making meetings interactive in locations from Argentina to the Bahamas and in venues from live operating theatres to Buckingham palace! | |
| Jo-Anne Kelleway AUS The Info Salons Group Presentation Topic: Back to the Future
Presentation Title: History always repeats Download the Presentation Slides
Joanne Kelleway is a passionate supporter of the greatest industry - face-to-face events, Jo-Anne gives much of her time to working with the industry both in Australia and overseas. She was recently re-elected to the board of IAEE (International Association of Exhibitions and Events) and is currently enjoying her third term as a board member of Exhibition & Event Association of Australasia. Event technology company, The Info Salons Group – is her baby, headed by herself and Andrew Holland. The company has built its success on being at the leading edge of technology and developing cutting-edge tools to help exhibitors and visitors gain maximum advantage for their exhibition investment. They’ve provided services for more than 3,500 events in more than 10 countries, have six overseas offices, employ 150 permanent staff and this year celebrate 21 years as one of Australia’s longest-running, privately-owned companies in the exhibition sector. | |
| Liz King US http://lizkingevents.com/ Presentation Topic: Social Media for Events
Presentation Title: Creative ways to integrate Technology into your events
Liz King is a social media-integrated event planner and award winning blogger. As the owner of Liz King Events, she runs an innovative firm that creates dynamic branding events integrating the use of social media. Planning events from soup to nuts, she works with her team to create and sustain your event brand and enhance attendee engagement. Liz is the co-founder of PlannerTech - an event technology showcase that takes place throughout the United States to introduce event planners to game changing technologies. As the owner of Liz King Events, she has been featured as a speaker at the International Association of Exhibitions and Events, National Association of Colleges and Employers, ExpoWest/Supply Expo and several other events as an expert on the topic of social media and events. She has also been featured in Connect Meetings Intelligence and Convene Magazine, among others. | |
| Natasha Lampard NZ Lil Reggie, Webstock Presentation Topic: Community Building
Presentation Title: Community Building
Natasha Lampard is co-founder of the insanely awesome series of web-related
events that is Webstock, and co-creator
of Lil Regie, which some might say is the
best event registration management tool ever. Prior to that she was
the advocate of users at Trade Me.
Natasha has had her hand in the web pie for over 12 years: a dollop of
design + development, a handful of content editing, a pinch of
training and project management and a generous portion of usability
analysis.
She believes that life's too short to drink bad wine or have crappy
web experiences.
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| Marc Smith CAN Amuse Consulting Presentation Topic: Event Social Media
Presentation Title: Untapped Engagement Power of Social Media Download the Presentation Slides
Marc Smith is the Chief Muse & Relationship Officer at Amuse Consulting, Inc. Marc's events have feeling, are energy driven and fun. With more than 13 years experience in the event planning industry, Marc continuously strives to have a fresh perspective and the latest marketing tools to not just meet your expectations but to exceed them. He is passionate about social media, connecting people to and at events, as well as educating professionals, students and entrepreneurs about the untapped engagement power of Social Media and events. Marc is an avid speaker and has addressed audiences at Universities in BC and industry-related events. Marc is a sought after emcee, having previously hosted the Third Annual TimeRaiser and the Conceiving Families Documentary Screening. He has had multiple appearances on BT, Global and numerous radio shows. Recently Marc's company Amuse Consulting has been shortlisted for a Small Business BC Best Community Impact Award to be awarded in Feb 2012 | |
| William Thomson EU Gallus Events Presentation Topic: Maximizing Event Value
Presentation Title: Maximizing Event Value Download the Presentation Slides
William Thomson has been managing events since 1996. After university he set up his own event
management company organising student graduation balls. Since then William has organised,
marketed and designed; training workshops; dinners; conferences; seminars and exhibitions for
organisations such as: The National Housing Federation, The Local Government Association, The Department of Environment and The Council of Mortgage Lender, The British Bankers
Association and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales). William's roles
have included setting up an exhibition department for a commercial conferences company and
successfully reengineering the events departments at two of the UK's largest financial services,
trade associations and Europe's largest membership organisation. | |
| Leonora Valvo US etouches Presentation Topic: Facilitated Networking
Presentation Title: The Original Social: Facilitating the Right Connections Download the Presentation Slides
Leonora Valvo has successfully built multiple businesses in the travel and event management industry over the past 25 years. Her latest venture, etouches, is a software company that offers an innovative event management platform designed from her unique viewpoint for event and marketing professionals. Serving as CEO of etouches, Leonora oversees a global staff with offices in the Unites States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Leonora founded etouches software to give professional event planners, organizers and marketers an enterprise-class suite of event planning tools to streamline the planning and execution of world-class events. etouches is the #1 choice for media agencies, corporations, educational institutions and non-for-profit organizations that produce exceptional events as part of their customer and product strategies. Leonora’s product vision was transformed into an award-winning management platform for of all phases of the event lifecycle, complete with real-time dashboard views of event performance to closed-loop processes for spend management, marketing demand generation, and predictive analysis. etouches supports any language and any currency and is currently deployed in 28 countries. Leonora’s event management solution has emerged as a leader in the strategic meetings management software space with over 400 customers including Adobe, Volkswagen Audi Group, Dell Computers, The Financial Times, MasterCard, American Institute of Graphic Artists, National Public Radio, Red 7 Media, Diversified Communications and NetApp. Winner of the 2011 Entrepreneurial Innovation and Leadership award given by the Connecticut Technology Council, Leonora is a recognized visionary among her peers. Leonora is a member of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s Advisory Board and is a Inc. 500 small business honoree. | |
| Simon Young NZ syENGAGE Presentation Topic: Marketing Events
Presentation Title: Marketing Events Download the Presentation Slides
Simon Young is a partner of syENGAGE, a global engagement consultancy that helps businesses transform for the 21st century and enables real-time engagement through social media tools.
He is also the co-author of Social Media MBA, is a sought-after speaker on the future of business, and serves as a workshop facilitator leading presentations around the world.Simon has shared the stage with giants of the online marketing and social media world, including Gary Vaynerchuck, Brian Solis, David Armano and Jon Leland, as well as political and business leaders like NZ Green Party leader Russell Norman and NZ government minister Stephen Joyce. | |
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