Events & Exhibitions: Each week throughout lockdown, we are talking with industry experts and asking them what we can do to come out with more knowledge and better collaboration.
We catch up with Jason Stead, MD of GES EMEA to talk about the role of the big contractor in our industry, his time on the ESSA Board and whether there is space for the larger contractors to play an altruistic part in our community.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Marketing & Ops
This can sometimes be an uneasy relationship with misunderstanding of pressure points at the forefront. Katie Morhen from 52Eight3 chats to Lou about the reasons for this and how the two departments could work things to a much better advantage.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - The Venue Dynamic
We talk to Sarah Elton-Wall from Olympia about the dynamic between venues and organisers and what ops pros could do to get the most of that relationship.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - UK vs Overseas Ops
Verena Lester lives and breathes events in far away lands. Lou catches up with her to discuss the situations that teach you things that you would never learn elsewhere.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - The Associations
Our associations have been at the coal face of getting a 'go live' date. At the time of this session we were mid way through a marathon and still sprinting. Listen in to a conversation with Chris Skeith, AEO & Andrew Harrison, ESSA.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Virtual Events
AztecLive have been such a great supporter of Ops in Lockdown when it comes to the technical issues and challenges we have come across on our virtual journey. David Stanley joins Lou for a session on the challenges of Virtual Events.
20 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Running a business
Noel Reeves from Rocket Exhibitions has been an inspiration throughout lockdown by diversifying outside the sector. Lou catches up with him part way through lockdown for a straight up conversation about the challenges of running a business at this time.
18 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Redundancy, Furlough & Abundant workload
In this session, Lou talks to Jo Burton & Rebecca Davis about the issues we are facing within our sector and in particular, how we are all coping - or not - with our 'lot'.
18 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Features
Features can often be an element that Ops spend an awful lot of time and money on, so we picked the brains of Marija Erzen from Solutions2 about ways to make this work better.
18 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Scheduling
Scheduling is going to be an increasingly hot topic for the future success of events, so Lou enlisted the brain of Andy Paul from Teem Services for an open discussion on what we could do differently.
18 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Stand plans & regulations
Lou catches up with Lianne Newton from Event Support Solutions to discuss some of the challenges for Custom Build contractors & Stand plan checks.
18 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Negotiation & Budgets
Laura Cole from LC Events joins Lou for a conversation about Negotiation & Budgets
14 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Managing a team
This week is all about managing a team and Lou & Kerrie Kemp from Informa Markets have plenty to discuss!
14 Jul 2020
Ops in Lockdown - Contractor Relationships
In this episode, we are talking to Adam Aston, COO of Creative Hire about the importance of good contractor / organiser relationships.
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