What the Brit Awards can teach eventprofs about hybrid events
This year’s Brit Awards was another landmark event in the road to recovery. With an audience of 4,000 in attendance as part of the Government’s live events pilot scheme, it was the biggest indoor event of its kind in more than a year. And after 14 months of venues...
Hosting is the new moderating – Top Tips to transform your hybrid event
Hybrid is the buzz word surrounding events. Virtual audiences will remain as we navigate out of the pandemic and back to in person events but how will this work. Samme was recently invited to offer her insights and tops tips for the future of events on the Event Tech...
2020 Ditty
An Ode to the New Year.. 2020? Well, what a year! We started it off with such good cheer. “Aussie fires, they’ll fix that quick..” “In no time at all it’s back to our tricks.” Planning events that will spread much joy, From Singapore, London to Illinois,...
Virtual events are here to stay
If you only read the first 3 points on this blog, this will be something. ☺ Virtual meetings are here to stay Virtual meetings do NOT have to be boring Virtual meetings are a great way of driving engagement and revenues Are you still with me? Cautiously optimistic or...
5 Top Tips Post Lockdown
Hello eventprofs and friends, I want to wish you and your families good health during this really troubling time. This, of course, includes your mental health, something we’ve not taken so seriously until this new world. Look after you! We are seeing the green shoots...
Unprecedented Times – Some tips and tricks
Dear Eventprofs, friends and colleagues Firstly, I want to wish you and your families good health during this really troubling time. We are using the word unprecedented a lot right now, and we see that week by week our world is changing and not always for the better...
Life of an MC – Unprecedented times diary
Dear Blog Diary, Have you missed me? Instead of my usual monthly musings detailing all the great things that have been happening in my wonderful 1-year old career as a professional conference Emcee and Moderator, I have decided to start a narrative of this new world...
A new year in the life of an MC…January
New year and a new design for this special blog. I feel that it is important to share my experiences of this month’s one big event and journey to Saudi Arabia, a relatively unknown destination with a continuing changing landscape. Some may not have had the experiences...
A year in the life of an MC…December
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice” – T.S Eliot I hope this month has brought you peace and joy whatever your celebrations and festivities have been. And so, to rest.. November was so insanely hectic as...
A year in the life of an MC…November
How do you describe a month like November? Throughout my entire life or career, I haven’t experienced anything quite like this last month. I have worked with the most incredible event and production teams, I have travelled 40,000 miles around the world and (as...