Join us for the new episode of our In Control. podcast! This an insightful session on revolutionizing event check-ins, featuring Matthias Landthaler, senior key account and business development manager at CCD Congress Center Düsseldorf.

Some of the key topics include:
🤗 Stress-free check-ins for everybody
🏆 Self-service for the win
📍 Check-ins at hotels, airports, or any other place
⏱️ 8 seconds per attendee guarantee

This episode's guest is Aurélien Clere, a Microsoft MVP and the CTO / Architect Expert at Dynamics365. With his vast experience both in tech and events spheres, Aurélien will share his valuable real-world insights that can help you boost your tech event planning to new heights.

In this session, we dive into:
- Attracting the Right Speakers: Learn strategies to identify and engage thought leaders who will captivate your audience and enhance the value of your event.
- Talking to Sponsors: Discover how to create effective sponsorship packages and communicate with potential sponsors to secure their support.
- Selling Out Your Conference: Get insider tips on marketing tactics that not only fill seats but also create a buzz that extends far beyond the event itself.
- Communicating with Attendees: Find out how to keep attendees informed and excited before, during, and after your events through effective communication channels.
- Getting Feedback and Transitioning to the Next Conference: Understand the art of collecting and using attendee feedback to make your next event even more successful.

Who should join?
This episode is ideal for anybody directly involved in the conceptualization and execution of tech events including event managers, event planners, organizers, and coordinators as well as event marketing managers, sales managers, and community managers.

In this episode, we delve into the perspectives of sponsors and exhibitors on events in general, and specifically, how Event Tech can help exhibitors have successful events.

Our guest in this episode is Brett Lonsdale, CEO of the UK and USA-based software company Lightning Tools, which has been exhibiting at events of various sizes for over 15 years. Throughout his career, Brett has collaborated with a diverse range of organizers, venues, booth builders, and tech providers, aiming to maximize the benefits for his company at these events.

We talk to Brett on several key topics, including:

- His experience as an exhibitor, highlighting what strategies are effective and which ones are not.
- Insights on booking a booth: optimal timing and using event tech to select the best booth location.
- The challenges of booth configuration and ordering, and how event tech can help exhibitors, organizers, venues, and booth builders work together as a team.
- Practical tips and creative ideas to make your booth stand out.
- The use of gamification at events to boost engagement between attendees and exhibitors, including an honest talk about which giveaways and gadgets are effective at the booth, and which are not.
- Strategies for preparing for lead retrieval to ensure the process is as seamless as possible.

Tune in and explore how exhibiting at events can be beneficial for everyone involved: organizers, exhibitors, and attendees alike!

In the second episode of the "In Control!" podcast, Edyta, Adis, and Maarten Eekels (Global Director Data & AI at Rapid Circle) will discuss ways to manage speakers and plan event agendas.

They will be discussing easy and effective methods to:

- Create and manage Calls for Content
- Form independent Content Teams and manage them
- Manage content rating and content selection
- Build an agenda and pay attention to common mistakes
- Integrate it with the website and mobile apps
- Manage speaker communications
- Handle session feedback
- Discuss event tech software available and suitable for those tasks

Who Should Tune In:
This podcastis great for event organizers, event professionals, team members involved in event organization, content team members, or anyone interested in improving content selection for their events.

In this episode, we team up with Mira Razman (Community Empowerer at DynamicsMinds) as our guest alongside Edyta Gorzon (Director of Customer Success, run.events) and Adis Jugo (President, run.events) on host positions to uncover the most critical issues in today's event industry landscape. What a way to recap 2023!