IT'S BEEN A TOUGH 18 MONTHS

THE EVENTS INDUSTRY NEEDS A COLLECTIVE EXHALE

September 28 & 29, 2021

A Virtual, Global Experience

12th Annual Event

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ABOUT TECHSYTALK GLOBAL UNPLUGGED

HOSTED BY TECHSYTALK & LIZ KING CARUSO

WHO WE ARE
Event planners with over a decade of experience planning meetings, conferences and other corporate events in both live and virtual settings. We are experts at exploiting the best offerings in event tech to deliver a superior attendee experience.

WHY WE EXIST
As early adopters of event technology we are uniquely positioned to help transition planners from in-person gatherings to virtual events. techsytalk LIVE Global promises to be a resource to facilitate the evolution of the events and meeting industry in an increasingly tech-centric world.

Liz King Caruso is an Event Strategist, Consultant and Speaker. As CEO of Liz King Events and techsytalk, she has helped countless thought leaders grow their audience and sell their products through in-person, virtual & hybrid events. Liz is a big-picture person – passionate about tying events into an overall sales and marketing strategy and being efficient at every point of the process. Technology is her niche and she’s obsessed with helping organizations of every size leverage technology to produce more engaging & seamless event experiences.

In addition to her client work, Liz connects & educates her industry colleagues through platforms she has built – techsytalk GLOBAL, the techsytalk community & IGNITE Consulting program.

Liz has been featured as Eventex’s 50 Most Innovative Virtual Meeting Planners, Successful Meetings list of 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry, Top 5 Women in Event Tech, amongst other awards.

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BE GUIDED BY TOP THOUGHT LEADERS

Liz King Caruso

Virtual & Hybrid Experience Creator, Collaborator & Community Builder

Michael Buckley

Entrepreneur, Product Designer & Technologist

Anthony Vade, CED, altMBA

Experience Designer, Educator & Change Agent helping #eventprofs create positive behavior change with purposeful design.

Anthony Vade, CED, altMBA

Experience Designer, Educator & Change Agent helping #eventprofs create positive behavior change with purposeful design.

Born and raised in Australia, Anthony now calls Toronto, Canada home. Proudly known as an instigator, creator and change agent, for over 20 years he has helped event stakeholders create meaningful and memorable connections with attendees. He has worked with the largest audiovisual, event tech and event production companies in the industry. Designing and executing large scale conferences, corporate and entertainment events in virtual, hybrid and live scenarios.

Anthony is a true innovator; he loves to push the bar possibility bar and bravely challenges the status quo. Actively reinventing and redefining collaboration, cocreation, and experience design in the live events world. His team-based approach embraces and encourages an elevated way of thinking. Grounded by human-centric design methodologies and a zealous focus on outcome-focused idea generation. Building on this focus he is proud to be the North American Director of the Event Design Collective, helping train the industry on the EventCanvas Design Methodology. Helping #Eventprofs create impactful event experiences with intention and purpose while maximizing their return on investment.

Anthony’s consultative and collaborative approach to customer engagement has resulted in thousands of successful events traversing four continents. He has contributed to many award-winning productions, received many accolades for his involvement with industry associations on a local, national and global level. He is recognized throughout the industry for his advocacy and in 2020 was named one of the top event professionals in Canada by BizBash magazine.

A tech nerd at heart he loves to talk about how modern human experience is intrinsically linked by technology. He passionately promotes his belief that event design teams must first understand human experience, exercise empathy, collaborate and co-create to articulate the value that live events create; it is a combination of smart, purposeful technology and strategic design that creates experiences that connect, inspire and deliver the key messages.

Tess Vismale, CMP, DES

Tess Vismale, CMP, DES

Tess Vismale is an award-winning Chief Event Executioner & Event Technologist for iSocialExecution, Inc., an event execution firm; Tech Whisperer for DAHLIA+ AGENCY, #EventTechPullUp Podcast Co-Host, Virtual Event Superhero and Speaker. For years she has educated the business events industry on Event Tech. Tess is a member of the inaugural class to receive the Digital Event Strategist Certification (DES) conferred by PCMA.

Tess thrives virtually and face-to-face managing events logistics and tech merged with events. She is a Live Virtual Event Associate with ExecOnline. Tess was awarded the distinction of being named one of the United States' most influential event professionals with a well-deserved place on the 2020 #BizBash500 list! She was recognized as a member of Connect Association magazine’s “15 Over 50.” The honor highlights the top professionals in the events industry. Tess is a Certified Meeting Professional and member of Meeting Professionals International, Georgia Chapter (MPI, GA).

She is the former Tech Evangelist for The Meeting Pool, Senior Event Lead, Atlanta Botanical Garden; Conference Center Manager, Atlanta Technical College where she served on the President's Leadership Team. She is formerly on the Board of Directors of the Green Meeting Industry Council Atlanta (GMIC), member of Skål International, Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) and Association of Conference Collegiate Event Directors International (ACCED-i) and stage-managed for TEDxPeachtree's "Meetings Trendsetter 2013" and was awarded the GaMPI Shining Star Award. Previously, she was the Alumnae Programs Manager at Spelman College.

Vismale was featured in the Connect Meeting Intelligence Magazine's article, entitled "How I Work: Tess Vismale on Executing Events." She has presented for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Connect Meeting's Collaborate and Diversity Marketplaces, and PCMA's Convening Leaders Conference on tech tools and social media for event and fundraising professionals. Most recently, Tess became a founding member of a new professional community, The Association of Influencers and Thought Leaders (AIT). Of note, Tess has continued to be a voice for her industry post COVID-19. While the events industry has taken a significant hit due to the danger associated with this virus, Tess has continued to share her knowledge in wisdom virtually. A native Chicagoan by way of Atlanta, she holds a BA from Spelman College, enjoys social media, creative visionary thinking, tennis & watching mixed martial arts (MMA).

Liesl Leary-Perez

VP - Corporate Marketing, Hubilo

Adrian Segar

Designing, facilitating, and convening meetings since 1981, and participant-led and participation-rich events, commonly known as unconferences, since 1992

Adrian Segar

Designing, facilitating, and convening meetings since 1981, and participant-led and participation-rich events, commonly known as unconferences, since 1992

Adrian Segar loves to facilitate connection between people. He has been designing, facilitating, and convening meetings since 1981, and participant-led and participation-rich events, commonly known as unconferences, since 1992.

He is the author of three books on meeting design: Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love, The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action, and Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.

Adrian is an acknowledged innovator and presenter on participant-led event design, and facilitates four popular opening and closing plenaries: The Three Questions, The Solution Room, A Personal Introspective, and A Group Spective.

He has presented at just about every meetings industry event, including PCMA Convening Leaders and Education Conference, MPI World Education Congress, IBTM, MPI Chapter meetings, the MPI Chapter Business Summit, HSMAI MEET, theEVENT, and FRESH, GMIC & NESAE annual conferences, and been interviewed and profiled in numerous industry publications.

He has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the event industry in 2019 & 2020 global polls of 4,200 & 5,500 event professionals, one of the most innovative event professionals by BizBash Magazine, one of MeetingNet’s most influential online personalities and a 2017 Changemaker, and has been quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. His website www.conferencesthatwork.com is the world’s most popular website dedicated to meeting design.

Adrian lives in Vermont, USA, has founded two non-profits and served for decades on many non-profit boards. He loves to sing and dance.

KiKi L’Italien

Part strategist, part story-collector, part dot-connector, KiKi L’Italien helps organizations develop stronger ties between their mission and their members.

KiKi L’Italien

Part strategist, part story-collector, part dot-connector, KiKi L’Italien helps organizations develop stronger ties between their mission and their members.

Part strategist, part story-collector, part dot-connector, KiKi L’Italien helps organizations develop stronger ties between their mission and their members. KiKi honed her approach in and for organizations like the Optical Society, American Red Cross National Headquarters, National Press Club, and QVC, as well as with hundreds of individual founders, academics, and thought leaders.

She's a senior consultant with Tecker International, CEO of Amplified Growth, and speaks about cultivating communities of trust. KiKi is the creator and host of Association Chat, an online community, blog, and podcast reaching 72k individuals every month. She was also featured in 2021 by Cvent as one of the ‘20 Event Professionals You Should be Following’, which can be found here:
https://www.cvent.com/en/blog/events/20-event-professionals-you-should-be-following.

KiKi has served on the membership and component relations section councils for ASAE, was recognized in 2019 at IMEX as a Hall of Fame recipient for Organizational Leadership by the Association for Women in Events. Other awards include: BizBash Top 1000 People in the U.S. Event Industry (2019) and SURGE Innovation Pioneer (2018).

She enjoys gardening, philosophy, and is an active volunteer with the Woman’s Club of Wenonah.

Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, ECC, EWD

Creating Mindstamping Experiences + Brands

Marco Giberti

Providing early stage entrepreneurs access to coaching, partnerships, advisory and capital and the Author of Reinventing LIVE

Nick Borelli

Empowering Event Pros To Enhance Attendee Experiences with AllSeated & exVo

Jennifer Clark

Connector, Virtual Event Producer & Award-Winning Meeting Professional

Kristi Casey, CMM, CMP

Award-Winning Creative Strategist

Michelle Dallas

Delivers the best new trends, vividly effective color palettes, cutting edge food & beverage features, and stimulating experiential aspects in live, virtual, and hybrid events.

Dylan Monorchio

Content Marketing Strategist, Editor, Moderator

Jennifer Brisman

Founder & CEO at VOW and VOW Digital Health

Lee Papa

Internationally recognized Wellness, Mindfulness and Meditation Speaker, Published Author and Trainer

Humphrey Chen

CEO and Co-Founder of CLIPr

GET EXPERIENCE

Shift your perspective on digital events

We’ve all heard about hybrid being “twice as much work and twice the cost”, but what if it was worth all that and more? And what if the key to success was finding the right hybrid model for you, the right tools and the right partners? Whether your future events strategy is fully in-person, fully virtual or somewhere in between, we’ll equip you with the tools you need to plan strategically, measure success and communicate your unique value to your clients or boss.

2021 AGENDA

MAIN STAGE CONTENT:
Well produced LIVE content designed for audience engagement with seamless production. The focus here is how to foster strong guest experience that feels authentic to the in-person event while being designed specifically to educate, inspire and connect virtually.

ON DEMAND CONTENT:
Virtual events afford us the luxury of ease of schedule via ON DEMAND content. Attendees can choose their own adventure so they can consume WHAT they want, WHEN they want from the ON Demand offerings.

MEETING FORMATS:
No long-winded, marathon sessions on our watch. Each session will be structured for easy viewing in digestible amounts. Some sessions will be designed to be interactive so the audience can actively participate in the production.

LAUGH, LEARN & BOND
techsytalk core belief has always been: NEVER BORE. We don’t think learning and having fun need to be mutually exclusive, so expect no less at our techsytalk GLOBAL virtual experience.

Sept. 28, 2021
Agenda in EDT Time Zone

11:15 AM	11:45 AM	Opening Meditation
12:00 PM	12:13 PM	Welcome
12:20 PM	12:50 PM	Opening Networking
1:20 PM	1:35 PM	Spark’N Entertainment Break
1:40 PM	2:00 PM	Concurrent Session HACK IT: How do we manage In-Person Events in Today’s Climate?
1:40 PM	2:00 PM	Concurrent Session: HACK IT: What does Hybrid Really Look Like?
2:05 PM	2:30 PM	Thought Leader Roundtables
2:35 PM	3:00 PM	Emotionally Engaging Attendees in the New Era of Events

Sept. 29, 2021
Agenda in EDT Time ZonE

12:00 PM	12:13 PM	Welcome
12:15 PM	12:40 PM	Session: What #Eventprofs Need to Know about the Tech M&As
12:45 PM	1:05 PM	Concurrent Session HACK IT: How Realistic is the Future of Virtual?
12:45 PM	1:05 PM	Concurrent Session HACK IT: Building a Team & When/How to Outsource
1:10 PM	1:25 PM	Spark’N Entertainment Break
1:25 PM	1:50 PM	Getting Back to In-Person: What we Need to Know
2:00 PM	2:25 PM	Thought Leader Roundtables
2:50 PM	3:10 PM	A Few of My Favorite Things
3:10 PM	3:20 PM	Event Closing

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VENDORS & SUPPLIERS

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A Special THANK YOU To Our Amazing Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:

Cadence is an event experience platform evolving the way that people host, experience and remember virtual, live and hybrid events. You can connect people to all the experiences occurring at your event through community, conversation and connections.

While most platforms are for one-off events, Cadence is a platform for all events throughout the year—and the year after that. Organizations can have their branding, templates, attendees, speakers, customers, companies, materials, surveys and events at the account level.

GOLD SPONSORS:

Engamio is a new Toronto-based tech company that offers gamified engagement & sponsorship solutions for virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. While engaging up to 90% of the audience with such activities as assembling the jigsaw puzzles, dropping pins on interactive world map, finding words on wordsearch boards, and taking selfies with speakers, our company drives measurable value for Sponsors and Exhibitors.

The hybrid event platform built for engagement and event excellence.

Hubilo is the only all-in-one event platform built with the mission to drive deep engagement – first and foremost – yielding greater business results.
Engagement, paired with a proactive and full-time customer support team, ensures your events execute perfectly every time. We know that the future is hybrid and we are obsessed with how this will evolve and how we can revolutionize all events in the most meaningful way for organizers, attendees, sponsors, and partners.

SILVER SPONSORS:

Hoppier lets you create bespoke virtual experiences that increase attendee engagement. With Hoppier smart cards, your remote attendees can order drinks, lunch, or gifts from their favorite local vendors right to their door.

It’s event catering and gifting at scale, but without the logistics nightmare. All funds are either redeemed or refunded and the cards can be fully branded your way. Make Hoppier your unfair advantage today.

Allseated is the world’s most innovative event technology platform with powerful visualization tools that enable planning, selling, and executing hybrid events. With our unique array of products and tools and more than 100,000 to scale floorplans and resources to design layouts, manage guest lists and seating, take virtual walkthroughs, and more, we are bringing technological innovation to event planning.

CLIPr is a Video Analysis and Management (VAM) platform helping users get the most value from their videos, gain user insights, increase event and content ROI and make video actionable. Users collaborate and share right from the virtual events platform. Exhibitors gain valuable user insights to increase the velocity of the buyer journey.

BRONZE SPONSORS:

twine is the simplest and most compelling video networking solution designed to connect event attendees, communities, or your remote team. Timed 1-on-1 or small group video calls allows you to add real engagement, conversation, & interaction to your events.

Snöball the only event marketing tool that let you get personal with your marketing. Turn your passive audience into influential advocates to grow your audience.

Wordly is making simultaneous interpretation ubiquitous with an AI powered platform. Wordly delivers uniquely scalable, affordable, and always-available simultaneous interpretation to make meetings, webinars, and conferences more productive, inclusive, and engaging. Discover more at https://wordly.ai.

Has your remote team got Zoom fatigue?

At Spark’n we make virtual meetings fun again.

Inspire out-of-the-box thinking, build team camaraderie and improve productivity for remote teams through engaging 15 minute, live experiences that energize virtual team meetings.

InEvent’s self-service software allows you to manage every aspect of an event, from bookings to video streaming, with a single dashboard while getting access to hundreds of preselected partners so you have full control over the planning process.

One of the top rated Entertainment firms of its kind, Big Head Cartoon creates unique Art & Music Experiences in the Virtual, Hybrid & Live Event space that leave your guests with a one of a kind personalized keepsake!

Unwrapit is a relationship-building platform for forward-thinking people. We create personalized and sustainably-minded gift experiences, at any scale. Our gifts are digital, charitable, and experiential and therefore low/no waste and won’t end up in landfill.

EXHIBITORS:

Incentli helps you increase event revenues through improved engagement. Increase registrations and sponsor ROI with gamification and a sponsor-filled reward store.

We are an end-to-end customizable and turnkey Hybrid Event Management platform with 18+ solutions for advanced gamification; AI-based networking; self-onboarding of speakers, sponsors, and attendees. Let’s be your go-to event tech team.