Six Years Later and Our ‘Why’ Remains Strong
This past year has been anything but easy—Year 5 to 6 was the hardest one yet, (and felt more like a decade!). This time last year there was a lot of chaos, despair, and uncertainty, especially for our industry. Fortunately, we’re in a much more positive, hopeful position with live events returning and the continued creativity and expansion our industry is currently experiencing; an exciting time.
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.
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.
Move over Mediocre: The Marketer's Journey to Exceptional Digital Experiences
This week we were joined by experiential content experts Ryan Brown (Ceros), Sharon Shapiro (Bluecore), and Paige Gildner (Bluecore) to talk about how brands can use interactive digital experiences to stand out from the “mediocre middle.”
Namaste at Home: Recapping cred Wellness Week 2020
cred hosted its second annual Wellness Week last week, packed with both individual and team-wide activities to help promote personal wellness. While last year’s Wellness Week included in-office face masks and dancing, this year’s climate meant virtual classes and connecting digitally. With the major shift in our daily routines the past three months, this week served as a reminder to practice self-care and check-in with ourselves at home.
Are We Building Products That Are Ruining the World?
For the sixth installment of our credWebinar series, we explored the intersection of ethics and technology, and what that means for the products we’re building. To further shed light on this quandary, Carey Jenkins, the CEO of Substantial, broke down five steps to help us focus on ethically built products.
Going Remote: Effective Remote Hiring & On-Boarding
For our fifth credWebinar, we’re tackling a timely subject—hiring during COVID-19. To help us understand more about how to hire effectively during this time, we brought in Vivek Ravisankar, the CEO & Founder of HackerRank, Wayne Huang, the Head of Engineering at Tophatter, and Erika Thorson-Garay, the Head of Global Talent Acquisition at LiveRamp to tackle this subject.