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Hybrid is Dead: A View from the Stage

Smart Meetings

While a handful of deeply digital-oriented companies are pulling off hybrid events, speaker agencies surveyed in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom report booking speakers for hybrid events only 5 percent to 10 percent of the time. We can also secure bigger speakers for less money as they don’t have to travel.”

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How to Host the Best Partner Marketing Conference

Endless Events

And while you may be familiar with influencer marketing in B2C, a popular approach to event partner marketing, event partner marketing in B2B spaces is also growing in popularity. They want their attendees or their speakers to help create unique content. I think a lot of people want that. Well, it’s not an easy task,” responds Nicole.

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#RotterdamExperiment 1 – How global transformation in technology, organisations and values will impact the future of events

The MICE Blog

According to Yuri, ‘B2B and B2C events build significant change. What I expect and assume, after corona, let’s say the end of next year after the vaccine has been broadly introduced, we’ll see a shift towards higher, ambitious events; mostly hybrid, high-quality speakers, and the middle will be diminished. B2C becomes B2B.

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Swiss Sustainability Forum to lead a sustainability agenda in Bern

The MICE Blog

All speaker contributions are translated simultaneously into German or English, allowing all participants to follow the programme in the language they prefer. Second, other challenges are the impacts that changing pandemic travel restrictions and COVID-19 outbreaks may have on the ability of speakers to participate.

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7 of the Top Event Planning Conferences in 2021

Social Tables

EMS is an industry-leading event planning conference, and it describes itself as “the event industry’s mega-show,” which “brings together b2b and b2c brand-side marketers, executives from leading event agencies, meeting planners, trade show organizers, event strategists, experience designers, event technology gurus and more.”

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Corbin Ball is an international speaker, consultant and writer dedicated to helping clients use technology more efficiently for improved productivity. Follow their articles on technology, B2B events and B2C events to see what others are doing right and how you can take inspiration for your own event. All about event tech. Campaignlive.

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The workshop that wasn’t

Conferences that Work

The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours. Also, he polled people in the audience and asked who was B2B [business-to-business] and who B2C [business-to-consumer]. 90 percent of the room was B2B…his presentation was almost all B2C.” One final suggestion.

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