Event Industry News Podcast

Show Ready - The Edit: GES Launches a new premium chapter in its award-winning Show Ready collection

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Dixon speaks with Penny Banks, Creative Director at GES, about the launch of Show Ready - The Edit, a curated range of four modular exhibition d...

From Hovercrafts to Live Surgery: Behind the Scenes of Event Production

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at Stream7 to mark Event Industry News’ 15th anniversary, this episode brings together event producers, staffing experts and broadcasters t...

Northern Voices: NOWIE Members on Careers, Community & the Future of Events

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

delighted to record this episode in person at the Stream7 studios in Sheffield. Joining us for the conversation was a brilliant panel of Northern-b...

From Broadcast to Hybrid: Stream7 on Adapting and Evolving in Events

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at Stream7’s Sheffield HQ as part of Event Industry News’ 15th anniversary series, James Dixon sits down with long-time listener and big ...

AIME 2025: Inside the Premier Business Event of the Asia-Pacific

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Event Industry News podcast, host James Dixon is joined by Matt Pearce, the CEO of Talk2 Media and Events, to delve into the dy...

Defining customer experience with Olympia Events

07 Aug 2025

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In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast, host James Dixon welcomes Carly Gibbs, recently appointed as the Head of Customer Experience at Ol...

Crossing the gain line with Project 30

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Managing director Craig Mathie founded full-service event production agency Project 30 in 2022, after nearly 12 years as MD with Bournemouth 7s Festiv...

Unlocking the secrets of neuroscience in event design

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event strategist and consultant at ElectraLime Marketing, a company she founded in 2009, Lisa Schulteis is also a director of the North West Event Sho...

The Importance of Quality Audio in Events

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan Strain started Silent Noize 16 years ago. A gamechanger. In this episode, Duncan talks host Adam Parry through the journey from promoting Bi...

Industry first AI tool for conference session selection

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A part of the event industry for as long as he can remember, in some form or other, latterly Chris Carver is co-founder and CEO at Florida-based conte...

RunMerge - The last integration you'll ever need

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In among the event tech-world for 20 years, working with the likes of Cvent and SwapCard, Kevin Singh launched data integration platform RunMerge litt...

Exhibitor experience is your brand experience

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With 40 per cent of an organiser’s time spent ‘chasing exhibitors’ according to a recent Bizzabo study, this episode is about what’s broken, w...

The Showstop Procedure: The best way to ensure event safety in an emergency

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Hamilton, strategic, tactical and operational advisor with over 50 years’ experience in security, Paul McCartney among his long-term clients, a...

10 Years of The Purple Guide Grant Scheme

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In and around events since the 1970s Steve Heap needs little introduction. Saying that, there’s a whole lot of it in the shape of his forthcoming bo...

Micro-Events - The future of marketing

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With a background in managing 10,000 plus events, for the last three and a half years Utah-based Rodney Hart has been at next generation marketing pla...

Sustainable branded apparel/merch - TeamTogs’ create, supply and ‘take the pain away’ process

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Saragoussi, owner of branded apparel/merch company TeamTogs, follows up her 2024 appearance on the podcast, accompanied by business development...

Tariffs – now what for trade shows

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Behind the recently published article: Tariffs – now what for trade shows, this episode’s guest, media and events entrepreneur Dr Baris Onay, is a...

The Evolving Role of Photographers in Today's Event Landscape

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ten years ago, recognising the narrow horizons of his sales job, Big Event Media founder Vincent Roazzi Jr started exploring New York City through the...

In Person, a journey through the unstoppable evolution of events

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This special edition of the Event Industry News podcast sees editor Adam Parry in conversation with Enrico Gallorini, co-founder and CEO of GRS – a ...

The Evolution of MEGA Events - From Local to Global

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan Reed runs experiential events company MEGA, which he founded 15 years ago. Behind rolling successes like The Rock Orchestra, Illuminated Orches...

Accelerating Growth and Impact at RainFocus

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gates, SVP of Industry Strategy at next-generation event platform RainFocus, is James Dickson’s guest for the first Event Industry News podcas...

Greenwashing: How it manifests in the events industry

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sustainability strategy experts Sam Wilson, managing director at Syntiro Associates, and Dr Dominic Tantram, partner at Terrafiniti, present a podcas...

MJ Unpacked: A different kind of 'green' event

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In and around events-world for years, Seattle-based CEO and co-founder of MJ Unpacked, George Jage, sowed the seeds for a show committed to the cannab...

Eventwise up to event numbers

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO at Eventwise, Chris Carter, and company set out to transform financial management in the sector for ‘greater efficiency and control...

Resonance = Relevance. Why Experiential is The Key to Unlocking Culture for Brands

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Louisa O’Connor, managing director of female-led brand experience agency Seen Presents, which represents the likes of Netflix and TikTok, has been i...

How tech has changed the face of events

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From sales director at Mentor Direct Marketing to vice president, European sales, at software solutions giant Cvent, nearly 30 years later, Jamie Vaug...

Putting the GES in ESG

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In and around events since 2002, Kate Holliday brought her considerable sustainability chops to trade show and exhibitions giant GES, where she is hea...

The importance of Event Strategy

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Multi-award-winning creative agency Sledge can boast an impressive catalogue of clients, Sage, Aruba and O2 contemporary among them. Managing director...

A round with Exhibit 3Sixty

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With a background in graphic design, marketing and web development, commercial manager Sam Pearce joined Exhibit 3sixty from the Dovetail Group in 202...

Tramlines Festival: The wider benefits

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An outdoor event’s relationship with its local authority ranks high among the elements crucial to success. Following on from Timm Cleasby, director ...

Tramlines: The festival journey from Sheffield city centre to Hillsborough Park

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the event industry for more than 20 years, monitor engineer to director of operations at Tramlines, where he’s worked since it started in 2009, a...

Worlds Better x Event Academy: ‘Delivering Sustainable Events’ Course

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chrissie Beck, founder of sustainability consultancy for the live events industry, Worlds Better, joins host James Dickson in this episode of The Eve...

The ever changing focus of event sustainability

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast, host James Dickson is joined by founder of event:decision, Matt Grey.   Matt has worked in events...

Beyond The Event: little things that enhance the attendee experience

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a break in recording (and an eventful football tournament) we are delighted to welcome back the Event Industry News Podcast, host, James Dickins...

TNW Events - A Financial Times Company

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In events since 2012, and in technology for about the same amount of time, Zach Butler is director of Amsterdam-based TNW Events.   Launched in 2006...

The PIE: Transforming knowledge and networks

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clare Gossage is COO & co-founder at The PIE (Professionals in International Education), which since launching in 2011 has become the sector’s h...

Time and Space with CloserStill Media

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joining business exhibitions mainstay CloserStill Media in January 2021, from Ocean Media Group, and taking his tech acumen into events-world, was an ...

Inside Informa-tion: Vetting new event tech to integrate into event production

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Regis is global technology adoption manager at London-based publishing/intelligence/exhibition giant Informa. This episode looks at his career pa...

Inclusivity – rather than an afterthought, make it a first thought!

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Kendall is director of international business development at Sorenson Communications, leading solutions servicer for the deaf and hard-of-hear...

Forging a path in the events industry

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maria Sidiropoulou – senior product manager at Informa Markets – accepted a new role with the company, event director for Jewellery Arabia, based ...

Closer Still Media close up

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Shapiro is portfolio director for medical events at Closer Still Media (CSM) where she’s worked at for more than 12 years, during which the co...

Mental Health: Discussing wellbeing and support for Event Profs

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clarion Events’ head of sector marketing operations, Tom Fisher, worked for the prison service and the Met Police before stepping across the tracks ...

Revolutionising how the fintech industry connects, collaborates and does business

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From designing computer chips at Intel nearly 30 years ago to current role as head of industry at Fintech Meetup, Sanjib Kalita – who is also CEO at...

Transition: How working in B2B events has evolved

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast host, James Dickson, is joined by Terrapinn COO Sharon Roessen. Sharon has been with Terrapinn for...

Festival of Media: Highlighting the best in media, marketing and advertising

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast host, James Dixon, is joined by Jeremy King, CEO and co-owner of Festival of Media. Jeremy brings ...

TeamTogs: Service driven branding & merchandise with strong origins in global events

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast, host James Dixon is joined by Karen Saragoussi, Founder and Director of TeamTogs. Celebrating thei...

How data & digital upskilling can help run successful exhibitions in 2024

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dive into the latest episode of The Event Industry News podcast, where our James Dickson engages in a captivating conversation with Emily Clark from I...

The intersection of event design, experience, and artificial intelligence

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the ever-evolving landscape of event design, technology continues to play a pivotal role in shaping memorable and impactful experiences. The latest...

How Event Tech fits into Event Design

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With a big background in tech-world, marketing director Felicia Asiedu has been at Cvent for five years. This episode is a deep dive into the brand, w...

Zenus & IMEX - Measuring attendee behaviour

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oli Bailey, interaction designer at IMEX, and Panos Moutafis, who is co-founder/CEO at Zenus AI, a company developing ethical facial analysis tech, ar...

The shift from print focus to events for the Financial Times

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With an impressive background in how to monetise audiences for publishers, through events, Orson Francescone moved to the Financial Times’ stable fo...

Women in Exhibitions: Tips on career paths in the world of events

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chief operating officer Rachel Swann has been with global exhibitions company dmg Events for eight years. She is also vice chair of the AEO and, topic...

How to reach 9 Million through an engaged stakeholder community - with your average show - before the show!

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Céline Laukemann, head of internationalisation at German-based ‘full-service registration solution’ ADITUS GmbH, and Elinor Honigstein, business...

Audience Engagement: How to create ways to enhance attendee engagement during in person events

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Formerly head of events at Founders Forum Group, Jesse Peterkin took his background in high-end hospitality and international events to immersive spec...

Hybrid Events? The concept doesn’t exist to C2’s Experiential Campaigns

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Live and direct from Montreal, Canada, Jesse Gainer is VP growth and partnerships at C2 – a company spawned from equal measures of two impactful lo...

Tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With more than 12 years’ experience working in the events industry, primarily in tech, Rachel Heller is senior content program manager, events, at G...

Scaling with event tech

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Former head of digital innovation at Reed Exhibitions, Ade Allenby launched his own advisory business in March 2023.   In this episode, Ade talks adv...

How to approach event launches and re-launches

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Cronin took her 16 plus years of industry experience to emap in 2021, as head of conferences then head of events.   In this episode, with a ...

How to design and deliver a flawless Hackathon

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ewelina Dunkley has years of experience in the live events world, working in hospitality, fine dining and private parties before joining Meta, (then F...

Destination Emirates Old Trafford

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Working at Emirates Old Trafford since 2013, Angela Hobson has been sales director at the home to Lancashire County Cricket club for more than three ...

Sound: The Underrated but Fundamental Element of Events with Thomas Serrano

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Serrano launched Exclamation Group in 2020. Driven by its ‘Events That Make A Point’ mantra the company is a ‘one-stop-shop for corporate...

IMEX: Rebranding an established event

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Launched in 2003, IMEX Frankfurt is the heartbeat of the global business events community. And that’s what it says on the show’s homepage. In t...

Scaling events on a global scale

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Raccoon Media Group, formerly Raccoon Events, launched in a garden shed and delivered the award-winning National Running Show, at Birmingham NEC, le...

TURF for event sponsorships

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Since 2022, tellingly titled company TURF has been pitching exclusive NFTs and art prints of ‘any place on earth’.   Co-founder Garm Lucassen, wh...

Reset Connect and the power of a positive event

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Having spent the latter part of his 10 years at Clarion Events as EVP of its energy portfolio, Duncan Reid founded Reset Connect, a sustainability sho...

emc3: Events as a force for good

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Award-winning creative agency EMC3 recently published a white paper, ‘Events as a force for good’, is focused on holistic sustainability in the in...

The Valuable 500: Working to end disability exclusion

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With 10 years’ event industry experience in the locker, Ryan Curtis-Johnson is director of communications for Valuable 500, the largest CEO network ...

The Events Club: A members’ club for events people

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Morrow is founder/managing director of venues the Belgravia and the Block but he’s here to highlight a new venture, the Events Club. With 25-...

Accessibility, diversity and sustainability

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Former Mobile Promotions and Star Live man Robin Carlisle launched RC Consultants in November 2021 to help young people with special needs find a foot...

Touchdreams: Shaping websites for 2023

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Since 2011, using content management systems including Drupal and Webflow, Touchdreams has been building websites for ‘e-commerce, product businesse...

Budget or Bust: How new event budgeting tools can save the bottom line

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Vass ran his own event agency, 30 staff delivering up to 30 roadshows a month, and spent far too much time with spreadsheets. “Keeping an eye on...

What’s happening at EMEC 2023

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Five and half years with Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the last six months as chief brand officer, Drew Holmgreen knows what’s expecte...

Tag Digital: New Model Marketing & the benefits of an integrated approach

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicola Shaw, head of growth at Tag Digital, has been in/around digital marketing for most of her career. In this episode, having detailed Tag’s miss...

Visual Architects: Exploring visual identity

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Creative director at IllumiNaughty offshoot Visual Architects, which he founded in 2013, Lefteris Angelidis knows the value in offering audiences orig...

How hybrid workforces are becoming more efficient

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Muhammed Younas founded vFairs in 2014 after 12 years in a variety of roles at Bayt.com, ‘the Middle East’s #1 job site’. A remote-first company...

Working in Clusivity

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meera Somji and Andrew Carney launched Clusivity a year – pretty much to the day – before this podcast was recorded, January 2022. A ‘new easy t...

What does the future of experiential events look like

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Perrott is managing director of Chorus, a London-based brand experience agency with a worldwide client base. This episode sees Andrew discussin...

Event Tech Predictions

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joining host James Dickson from the Hague, Jelmer van Ast, founder and CEO at event engagement platform producer Conference Compass, talks through his...

Behind Notified’s 2022 Benchmark Report

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

‘The world’s only communications cloud for events, public relations, and investor relations’, Notified, released its annual Benchmark Report in ...

Behind the scenes at Shocklogic

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CEO John Martinez, a quantum physicist, founded Shocklogic in 1997. One of the earliest exponents of event technology as we know it today, Shocklogic ...

First Sight Media: Learnings from the Event Tech Live livestream

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Belcher is director of streaming/production company First Sight Media, a key partner in delivering Event Tech Live (ETL) across its in-person,...

The ins and outs of global events recovery

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James C Morris joined full-service event and experiential marketing agency Impact XM, where he is now VP client service, at the beginning of 2018 – ...

Why ’Quiet Quitting’ is bad for business

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chief strategy officer Stephen Pickett joined Live Group in March 2022, from equally self-explanatory Canadian business CleanRiver Recycling Solutions...

Composing the Metaverse

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline McGuckian founder/CEO at Meshh, a company focused on the ‘metrics of movement’, and Jack Jacob, MD and founder of PNE (Partnership Networ...

Blackthorn: easy event management for Salesforce

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With multiple cross-industry specialties in his locker New York-based Matt Frank is director of technology evangelism & product marketing at Blackthor...

Zoom Events: Developing hybrid event innovation

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With more than 20 years software development, product management and business development in her back pocket, Wei Li is head of Zoom Events and Webina...

Cvent CONNECT Europe 22: Cvent culture with Jamie Vaughan

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Introduced by host Adam Parry the second chapter of chats he had during a visit to Cvent CONNECT Europe, at Intercontinental Hotel – The O2, is with...

Cvent CONNECT Europe 22: Patrick Smith on adapting to the new event model

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Parry caught up Cvent senior vice president and chief marketing officer Patrick Smith at the physical element of hybrid Cvent CONNECT Europe, hel...

Recfest: A Festival of opportunity

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Leonard and his wife Lois Holland Leonard founded Recruitment Events determined to do better in an industry Jamie describes as ‘notorious for ...

River of Light: Interview with Creative Director of Culture Liverpool

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Kemp is head of creative development at Culture Liverpool. In this episode, Robin talks through the city’s celebrated River of Light installat...

Situations Vacant: Is there a recruitment crisis in the events industry?

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The events sector lost huge numbers of fantastic, talented people to other industries as a product of the lockdowns.   In this episode Mike Frost, co...

Following Twine’s thread of connection

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lawrence Coburn, is co-founder & CEO of Twine, an employee connection programme launched in 2020 that operates out of San Francisco.  In this episode...

Blockchain rocking beats

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Katz is founder and CEO of YellowHeart, which he describes as a made-in-NYC, blockchain live event ticketing platform powered by distributed ledg...

Do’s and do’s for sustainable events

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jenny Morgan founded Pact Three inspired by the 2020 wild fires, which were in her North West America back yard. Pact three partners with teams seekin...

Making Hay through the storm

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With eight years in the sector, Tinique Hay conceived Hay Events, a solution for entrepreneurs and small business management, in 2018. The company lau...

Scottish Event Campus - Net Zero by 2030

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A key part of the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) since January 2009, Dawn Lauder has been head of international conferences at the venue for nearly six y...

A heart as big as Liverpool International Music Festival

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yaw Owusu, executive manager at Playmaker Group (PMG), has curated the Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) since 2013.   Typically focused ...

Getting behind Bizzabo

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Working out of Boston on the US east coast, Devin Cleary is VP Global Events for Bizzabo, the event experience operating system, and a regular on the ...

How can brands bring back the boogie this festival season?

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Formerly senior logistics manager for Jack Morton Worldwide, Adam Goodman founded full-service creative agency ACA Live in 2008. In this episode, Adam...

Introducing The Power of Events

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Stainton, the man behind creative agency Smyle, founded One Industry One Voice (OIOV) in the eye of the pandemic as a ‘coalition of association...