Making Diverse Voices a Priority in Events
This week cred was joined by Valerie Jackson (Procor), Lili Gangas (Kapor Center), and Wahab Owolabi (URx & Facebook) for an important discussion on how event professionals can incorporate diversity and inclusion into their events. Diving into the impact of agendas featuring all-female speakers, to tracks focused on tech for POC, this interactive panel shared their insights into what will shape the events industry and agendas curated moving forward.
credTen: The Top 10 Podcasts by Events 2020
This year, we’ve seen the event world go virtual, with almost all live events becoming digital events. Another trend we’re seeing? More and more events are starting their own podcast series, sharing content even more frequently.
In this edition of our credTen series, we’re sharing ten of our favorite podcasts hosted by events.
Event 101: How to Curate a Virtual Event Swag Bag
Like everything in 2020, the swag bag is adapting to the online world and event organizers are getting more creative than ever. Whether you have an event coming up or are looking for ways to boost internal team engagement, here are some of cred’s favorite ways to curate the new virtual event swag bag.
cred Book Club: Books That Inspired Us
While we’ve been happily swamped with virtual conferences, managing speaking opportunities, and all else events-related, the people of cred have fortunately still found time to cross a few books off our reading lists.
We’d like to share some of our top reads with you! Whether you’re looking to focus on personal development, give your brain a break from the world, or find something interesting to chat about during your next Zoom happy hour, we’ve got you covered.
Founder Power at SaaStr Annual at Home 2020
In the now-standard in-person to virtual event pivot, SaaStr Annual at Home packed all the founder and VC-led content and networking that attendees have come to know and love from SaaStr into three full days of live, virtual content.
With 70+ sessions, the key takeaways were flying out of our speakers faster than we could transcribe them. Here are some of our favorites, but make sure to join the 300,000+ other viewers who have already committed to learn from the best in SaaS and catch up on all the incredible Annual sessions on SaaStr’s Twitter feed.
Changing With the Times: 10 Virtual Conference Trends
When the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the events industry in March, event pros quickly pivoted to virtual. The shift was so drastic that business and professional online events increased 1,100% in April compared to April 2019.
Now that we’re half a year into experiencing events from home, we’re starting to notice some trends as virtual conferences become the new norm. Here are 10 virtual conference trends we’re seeing this year.
The Unanticipated Benefits of Virtual Events: An Event Organizer's Perspective
Welcome to the sixth month of the virtual “new normal!” It almost seems as though years have passed since rumblings of a pandemic were circulating in early March, threatening to bring the events industry to a screeching halt. Optimism was shared through outlooks of “it will go back to normal next month,” or “don’t worry, they won’t cancel the event”—and now, these words cause us to shake our heads at the blissful ignorance our industry was once guilty of presenting.
Luckily, we’ve seen a quick pivot to virtual, and as we plan more and more virtual events, we’re seeing benefits that we never would have anticipated.