how to managevirtual events?

26th January2022

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About

Are you planning to organize an online event in 2022?
Are you looking for the right virtual platform?
Do you know how to engage your audience?

You can find answers to these questions during Spark of Change 2022, a must-attend fully virtual conference for event professionals.

On 26th January 2022 we will share, inspire and give practical advice. This year we mainly focus on the participants, their engagement, curiosity and, finally, excitement.

The event industry is going through the tough time, so we need to be prepared for new challenges. That is why this is the right time to share the knowledge and experience with other professionals. The event sector can never come back to the previous shape, but now nothing can surprise us!

While waiting for this year’s festivities, dig into our last year’s specials!

Agenda

We start at:

  • Los Angeles: 9 AM PST
  • New York: 12 PM EST
  • Warsaw: 6 PM CET
  • New Delhi: 10:30 PM IST
  • 6:00 PM CET - 6:05 PM CET

    GRAND OPENING

    Maciej Kautz, Damian Urbańczyk, Anna Butrym, Łukasz Cioch
  • 6:05 PM CET - 6:10 PM CET

    OPENING ADDRESS

    Michał Michałowski
  • stage 1

    Engagement

    stage 2

    Technology

    stage 3

    Content

  • 6:10 PM CET - 6:40 PM CET

    Stage 1

    Debate Round #1 - Inspire & Engage

    Amy McWhirter, DanRam

    Debate Round #1 - Inspire & Engage

    What can MC do to keep the audience engaged? Why are virtual events no worse than live events, and sometimes even more compelling?

    Stage 2

    What's in store for 2022?

    Max Gethin

    What's in store for 2022?

    2020 saw the virtual events sector explode with innovations and new technologies. 2021 saw experimentation, discovery and processes redefined. But what’s in store for 2022? + Q&A

    Stage 3

    Fantastic events and where to find them

    Katarzyna Piwowar

    Fantastic events and where to find them

    How to choose the right creative concept? How to prepare a good scenario? How to cooperate effectively with the client? + Q&A

  • 6:40 PM CET - 7:10 PM CET

    Stage 1

    What metaverse is, and what isn’t + Q&A

    Rocco Haro

    What metaverse is, and what isn’t + Q&A

    Stage 2

    Virtual is the new IRL: How socialising virtually will feel more real than IRL in 5 years

    Stephane Roux

    Virtual is the new IRL: How socialising virtually will feel more real than IRL in 5 years

    Stage 3

    Speak Visually

    Luiza Farkash, Anna Wolska de Keijzer

    Speak Visually

    Creating graphic content for your virtual event. Event co-ordinator perspective. + Q&A

  • 7:10 PM CET - 7:40 PM CET

    Stage 1

    Debate Round #2 - Crazy as hell

    Brian Allan, DJ Graffiti

    Debate Round #2 - Crazy as hell

    Brave virtual entertainment ideas

    Stage 2

    Search for the Perfect Event Platform + Q&A

    J Mendes

    Search for the Perfect Event Platform + Q&A

    Stage 3

    Interview - Event Sales

    Boris Hristov

    Interview - Event Sales

    How to be loud and get top brands to become sponsors of your event + Q&A

  • 7:40 PM CET - 8:10 PM CET

    Stage 1

    The Engagement Challenge + Q&A

    Henry Hall

    The Engagement Challenge + Q&A

    Stage 2

    Debate Round #1: Don't Panic, The Show Must Go On

    Valeria Samborskaya, Adam Eunson, Magdalena Gawlak

    Debate Round #1: Don't Panic, The Show Must Go On

    Client’s experience from first online events ever

    Stage 3

    Debate Round #1: Perfect events in Imperfect World

    Sabrina Meyers, Dorota Wojtczak

    Debate Round #1: Perfect events in Imperfect World

    Lesson from the pandemic?

  • 8:10 PM CET - 8:30 PM CET

    Stage 1

    Let's make some noise!

    DJ Graffiti

    Let's make some noise!

  • 8:30 PM CET - 9:00 PM CET

    Stage 1

    BREAK

    BREAK

    Stage 2

    CHIT CHAT about public speaking

    Anna Butrym, Damian Urbańczyk

    CHIT CHAT about public speaking

    Few tricks to make your stage appearance unique + Q&A

    Stage 3

    Virtual Events is the new language that we are all expected to speak fluently as of 2020 + Q&A

    Melissa Estepp

    Virtual Events is the new language that we are all expected to speak fluently as of 2020 + Q&A

  • 9:00 PM CET - 9:30 PM CET

    Stage 1

    10 Tips to Engage Attendees at Virtual Events + Q&A

    Irina Ivanova, Irina Sagieva

    10 Tips to Engage Attendees at Virtual Events + Q&A

    Stage 2

    Streaming solutions for virtual and hybrid events

    Joe Guilderson

    Streaming solutions for virtual and hybrid events

    From meetings to conferences to fundraising events, learn more about the different options in streaming. + Q&A

    Stage 3

    Innovative event strategy

    Łukasz Cioch

    Innovative event strategy

    Innovative event strategy is so much more than an interesting-sounding agenda and a fancy constellation of star speakers + Q&A

  • 9:30 PM CET - 10:00 PM CET

    Stage 1

    How social media can skyrocket your virtual event engagement!

    Sabrina Meyers

    How social media can skyrocket your virtual event engagement!

    Stage 2

    Debate Round #2: The Clash of Giants: Green Screen Vs LED Screen

    Wesley Dodd, Robert Weiss, Cüneyt Şen, Bartek Jaworski

    Debate Round #2: The Clash of Giants: Green Screen Vs LED Screen

    Stage 3

    Breaking the language barrier during your online meeting + Q&A

    Fardad Zabetian

    Breaking the language barrier during your online meeting + Q&A

  • 10:00 PM CET - 10:30 PM CET

    Stage 1

    Debate Round #3: Virtual Event Trends for 2022

    Simon Burton, Liz Caruzo, Max Gethin, Pamela Benitez

    Debate Round #3: Virtual Event Trends for 2022

    Stage 2

    Stage 3

    Debate Round #2: Conferences without boundaries

    Marta Macke, Justyna Duszyńska, Agata Krogulec, Marta Idzikowska

    Debate Round #2: Conferences without boundaries

    Panel discussion on how to sucessfuly organize international hybrid conference, based on CMO Summit CEE by Shortlist

  • 10:30 PM CET - 10:40 PM CET

    Stage 1

    CLOSING CEREMONY

    Maciej Kautz

    CLOSING CEREMONY

  • 10:40 PM CET

    Wonder After Party

Speakers

  • Max Gethin

    Max Gethin

    Events Insights and Strategy | Speaker | Client Partner at Matter

    Max Gethin

    A thought leader and client champion within the events industry, Max has spent his career consistently and successfully connecting brands with their audiences through experience-led campaigns and events. 

    Max is currently working at London-based brand experience and events agency, Matter and has worked with major global brands including Virgin Media, Google, Visa, Epson and Bang & Olufsen to name but a few. 

    With a comprehensive understanding of the ever-changing market, Max uses his knowledge to empower brands and agencies to create audience-centric experiences that deliver results, no matter the platform or medium.

  • Liz King Caruso

    Liz King Caruso

    CEO of Liz King Events & techsytalk

    Liz King Caruso

    Liz is an Event Planner & Technologist who helps her clients leverage virtual and hybrid events for the past 10 years to reach their marketing and sales goals. Winner of “Top 50 Virtual Meeting and Events Innovators”, “The 100 Most Influential People in the Events Industry” and “Top 5 Women in Event Tech”, Liz is all about building community in the events industry for shared learning & innovation. Learn more about the techsytalk Collaborative at techsytalk.com.

  • Amy McWhirter

    Amy McWhirter

    EMCEE and Event Host

    Amy McWhirter

    Professional emcee, host and presenter Amy McWhirter brings soul and a deeply human connection to events and screen. With warm, energetic authenticity, Amy connects audiences to the heart of messaging on-camera and at virtual, hybrid, and live in-person events.

    Amy understands communication from the inside out, with years of experience as a video producer, scriptwriter, live MC, virtual emcee, corporate presenter, hybrid event host and on-camera & TV host.

    Industry specialties include technology, healthcare, manufacturing, finance and defense, and her years of experience as a corporate presenter representing major companies is an asset to event planners. Amy makes complex or technical material relatable and conversational, and improvises with humor and grace.

    She’s a super quick study with a Bachelor of Science pre-med with Honors from University of Michigan.

    Her laser in-the-moment focus, listening and reacting, quick thinking, interview skills and summarizing create continuity, drive deeper engagement and amplify messaging so that audiences come away with deep value and are are inspired, energized and ready to act.

  • Martin L Smith

    Martin L Smith

    DJ Graffiti

    Martin L Smith

    Since he began DJing professionally in 1997, DJ Graffiti aka ‘The Mangler’ has become Detroit’s go-to DJ for concerts, clubs and corporate events. He has performed in front of audiences awaiting artists such as Jay-Z, Dave Chappelle, Eminem, Beyonce, Snoop Dogg, Big Sean, Lupe Fiasco, J. Cole and A$AP Rocky, among others.

    Over the years he’s become a celebrated fixture of Michigan’s music scene. In 2010 DJ Graffiti was voted “Best DJ in Detroit” by Real Detroit Weekly. Praised for his ability to play the music at the right time, Graffiti can be found playing DJ sets that unite even the widest spectrum of attendees.

    In addition to his DJ duties, the entrepreneur formally known as Martin L. Smith is an alum of both the University of Michigan Business and Law Schools. As a marketing strategist he specializes in helping companies increase online engagement to improve their bottom-line goals.

    Out of the ashes of the COVID-19 pandemic, DJ Graffiti found a passion for DJing virtual events for attendees across the globe. Since March of 2010 he has been invited to support livestreamed events by a growing list of clients including Google, Cisco, GitLab, Campbell’s Soup, Dell and Intel.

    In 2001 he co-founded a marketing company that grew to manage digital marketing campaigns for companies such as T-Mobile, Hennessy and Toyota. In 2015 the company re-branded as Overflow, a digital agency providing a comprehensive suite of marketing services to help businesses predictably and repeatedly acquire clients.

    Whether music, business, or more regularly an abundance of both, DJ Graffiti aka Martin L. Smith is positioned to lead, while others take notes.

  • Marta Macke

    Marta Macke

    Founder and CEO of Shortlist Consulting and CMO Summit

    Marta Macke

    Founder and CEO of Shortlist Consulting and CMO Summit with over 25 years of experience in the marketing communication industry and in business development / new business.

    In the years 1995-2012 she worked in Polish and international structures of advertising agencies, incl. in Client Service and New Business in Gruppa 66 (today’s Ogilvy & Mather), Saatchi & Saatchi and for 15 years in DDB Group, where as Business Development Director she was responsible for the strategic development of companies within the group.

    In 2013, she created Shortlist Consulting, the first company on Polish market focusing on pitch consulting, support in the development and implementation of business development strategies and in building client-agency relations. Shortlist also creates and organizes CMO Summit, „by invitation only” and „must be” events for top marketing managers and advertisers, as well as Marketing Benchmarks Summit conferences and CMO Breakfast and Procurement Caffee Talks, both in traditional and online form.

    Marta is the initiator of the process of integration of procurement, marketing and advertising/marketing communication industry as well as a co-creator and organizer of cyclical events and conferences „In the pitch triangle”, focused on pitch issues and inter-industry dialogue.

    She creates and conducts trainings re pitch procedures, business development / sales and client-agency relations building (ex. Brand Strategy School at SKM SAR, Procon and as part of the Shortlist Consulting offer).

    She is/was a speaker at business conferences: Forum Zakupów, Procon Polzak, Procon Indirect, Proebiz in Ostrava, as well as co-organizer and co-host of the Dentsu Group conference series entitled Brand Survival Kit.

    She conducts interviews as part of the Shortlist Relacje and CMO Talks series as well as is an autor and moderator of video-podcast Reklamiara.pl produced by Grupa NaTemat. Reklamiara is a cyclical program re the history of polish advertising industry.

    Since 2014, Marta has been an arbitrator of the Advertising Ethics Committee at the Advertising Council Association.
    She is a member of the jury of Superbrands, Procon Awards, 50 Kreatywnych w Biznesie; Mentor at the Club of Mentors of Entrepreneurial Women’s Networks and the Women in Advertising Mentoring Program.
    In the years 2016-18 she was the Vice President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Ski Club WKN, the oldest skiing club in Poland that was established in 1923.

  • Simon Burton

    Simon Burton

    Co-Founder and Director of the Virtual Events Institute

    Simon Burton

    Simon is a serial entrepreneur in the event industry, having successful launched and sold events in the worlds of media, events and social media. He is a widely recognised as a champion for the power of face-to-face marketing, social media and story-telling through events.

    His work in the event industry includes trade shows, awards, conferences and networking events as well as a best-selling book – The Event Professionals Handbook.

    When the Coronavirus pandemic arrived Simon was one of one the first event organisers to pivot to virtual and with industry colleagues was instrumental in establishing the Virtual Events Institute.

    He has an extensive global network of contacts and business partners in the event industry and holds several no-executive positions.

  • Joe Guilderson

    Joe Guilderson

    President of Corporate Audio Visual Services & Host of AVX Live!

    Joe Guilderson

    Joe has led New York-based Corporate AV for the last 16 years, creating a dynamic team of event professionals that specialize in live, virtual, and hybrid event production. After thousands of events in person in New York and all across the United States, the Corporate AV team quickly adapted to bring our knowledge of live event production, fundraisers, corporate meetings and streaming technology to the virtual and hybrid stage. Joe has been intimately involved in every element of virtual and hybrid event production, including: Account Lead, Technical Director, Zoom Technician, and Virtual Stage Manager.

    After production over 150 virtual and hybrid events; handling everything including Creative Design, Video Production, Show Management, and Live Streaming; and hosting their own weekly video podcast streaming to Youtube, Facebook, and Linked In; Joe and the team at Corporate AV are uniquely qualified to help corporations and nonprofits best plan for success in their virtual event. 

  • Melissa Estepp

    Melissa Estepp

    Owner of Premier Events By Melissa, Non-Profit fundraising expert and strategist, Virtual Event Producer

    Melissa Estepp

    Melissa Estepp has over 20+ years of event planning experience and opened her own business in 2018. In March 2020, Premier Events by Melissa took a hard turn when all of Melissa’s clients panicked and canceled their events throughout the rest of 2020 due to Covid. Being on the brink of extinction, Mrs. Estepp took charge and worked on the challenge of completely changing her business model. Melissa connected with virtual event producers across the US  that gave her resources to study. She then found classes, courses and virtual events to attend and put in over 100 hours of training to execute virtual events.

    In April 2020 Premier Events by Melissa launched their first Virtual event for a non-profit and helped them raise $115,000 in a half-hour virtual event. Since then, Melissa has gone out to non-profits and helped them virtually re-imagine their events by giving them a successful online strategy and engaging people’s attention by adding back in the human elements, all while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Her virtual and hybrid  events have received praise for inspiring, encouraging, and empowering attendees through virtual experiences. As well as, helping non-profits think outside of the box and creating engaging events that keep their audience buying into their companies and organizations.

  • Rocco Haro

    Rocco Haro

    B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Alaska, Anchorage.

    Rocco Haro

    Rocco is an extroverted nerd who embarked on the journey to constantly discover a more human video conferencing experience. The pandemic made it difficult to connect with groups of people online, and he realized that no other nerd has properly solved this problem. After 14 months of product iteration & market research, he has filed 3 patents which will finally make online group sessions feel more natural.

    In the midst of the “metaverse” hype, he seeks to educate non-techies on what it really means so that you can protect yourself from overspending without real value generation.

  • Katarzyna Piwowar

    Katarzyna Piwowar

    Co-founder/Creative Director of Creaters Studio

    Katarzyna Piwowar

    Katarzyna Piwowar’s entire professional life revolves around creating and organizing events. First, she was associated with the film industry, and in 2017 she started working as a Creative Director in one of the leading event agencies in Warsaw, Poland. In 2020, she co-founded creative studio called Creaters Studio, where she acts as Head of Creative and Head of Communication & Strategy. She helps her clients by creating event proposals, building multi-channel communication strategies and planning other brand experience activities. So far, Katarzyna has worked for many well-known brands such as: Citroen, Peugeot, Avon, Santander Bank, BNP Paribas, Nationale Nederlanden, Orlen, Velux, Roche and Skanska, for which, in total, she has created over 400 event proposals. In order to always be full of ideas and inspiration, she undertakes various activities: after hours she also works as alpacotherapist, masseuse and dance instructor.

  •  Boris Hristov

    Boris Hristov

    Founder 356labs & Present to Succeed Conference

    Boris Hristov

    Boris is the founder of boutique presentation agency 356labs – the largest presentation agency in the CEE. He is also the brain behind the Present to Succeed Conference – the premium event that brings 10 000 business professionals from 50+ countries that teaches them how to write, design, and deliver truly effective presentations.

  • Michał Michałowski

    Michał Michałowski

    CEO of Online Event Support

    Michał Michałowski

    Michał Michałowski – creator of Spark of Change. CEO of Online Event Support (oe-support.com) and Senior Partner of KDK Events agency (www.kdkevents.pl/en/). Practitioner and business freak. Has been working in the event and marketing industry for 15 years.

    He has gained experience in the people, process and project management, by organizing events for the public, as well as private sector. Graduate from Warsaw School of Economics. Co-founder of the PR agency – Consulting ‘n More, marketing agency Goodfellas Group, he also set up the foundation Platforma Równych Szans. Michał has been supporting development of young entrepreneurs within mentoring programs for 7 years. Personally – a passionate golf player and Asian culture enthusiast.

  • Luiza Farkash

    Luiza Farkash

    Event Manager Stream Space

    Luiza Farkash

    Highly experienced, expert in events and communication. Open minded and constantly willing to develop more professional skills. Truly customer oriented and creative in searching extraordinary solutions in organizing corporate events. Luiza has almost 20 years of broad experience in a field of communications both with customers and employees. She has built her professional experience working both in international corporations and agencies. During her professional life she  was very much focused on activities related to the event management on multiple levels.

    Humanistic approach with life curiosity, foodie and traveler, exploring cultures and people across the world.

  • Magdalena Gawlak

    Magdalena Gawlak

    IPMA Global Marketing and Communications Manager, International teams leader, Branding expert,

    Magdalena Gawlak

    A passionate Marketing and Communications Manager with 20+ years of international experience in branding, trade marketing, product management, event management, PR and communication (offline/online). With a proven track record in different roles: working inside media, as an in-house communication manager/spokesperson and acting as a third-party consultant. Familiar with B2B and B2C segments in various industries (banking, aviation, project management certification, consulting, HVAC). With practice on a national, regional and global level. She was engaged in numerous MarComm projects delivered to prominent internationally recognised brands such as Hitachi, Johnson Controls, mBank (Commerz Bank group), Avon, Bridgestone, LOT Polish Airlines. She is currently leading global MarComm and numerous international teams – delivering MarComm strategy and valuable brand solutions for a leading global Project Management certification brand. In love with words and consistently exceeding expectations.

  • Fardad Zabetian

    Fardad Zabetian

    Co-Founder and CEO of the multilingual meeting SaaS company KUDO

    Fardad Zabetian

    Fardad Zabetian has spent a lifetime finding new ways to break language barriers between businesses worldwide, his most recent efforts have disrupted how interpretation is used in global business. He has hatched five companies, two before the age of 24, and two of which were named by the Daily Deal Flow as “fastest growing businesses in America.” In 2017, he co- founded KUDO, a cloud-based video conference platform that gives clients access to a network of 12,000 professional interpreters who specialize in 200+ languages (sign language included). His latest creation, KUDO Marketplace further simplified the scheduling process for clients wishing to book interpreters launched in 2021 and was awarded by TIME magazine as one of the best 100 inventions of 2021. His mission is to break language barriers, and truly connect people worldwide. Zabetian speaks three languages: English, Farsi, and some German.

  • J Mendes

    J Mendes

    No Footprint Events

    J Mendes

    An Logistics and Operations consultant for many years J has always enjoyed organising events, that started as small hackathons and ended um in full fledge conferences. Since 2019 he decided to fully focus on events and when COVD hit he took no time to jump into the virtual scene. 

    He has now organised more that 30 virtual summits or festivals with a mix of his own events and client’s, and has used multiple platforms depending on the style of event in stake. 

    The future is definitively hybrid and 2023 is already looking great for the industry, that’s why No Footprint events (https://nofootprintevents.com/) is leading the way in purpose driven action.  

  • Irina Sagieva

    Irina Sagieva

    Business Development at PINE Event Platform

    Irina Sagieva

    Irina has 10 years of experience in organizing events and communications. Started her career in 2012 as a public affairs specialist and continued as event producer in Moscow.

    During the Pandemic, Irina switched her focus to virtual events. Her passion is facilitating a new generation of hybrid events that blur the line between the offline and virtual.

    Currently responsible for business development at PINE Event Platform, a leading provider of solutions for virtual and hybrid events.

  • Irina Ivanova

    Irina Ivanova

    Customer Success at PINE Event Platform

    Irina Ivanova

    Her in-depth experience and acquired knowledge allow advising clients not only on the technical side of using the platform, but also to provide a wealth of practical advice on how to run events more efficiently and successfully.

  • Pamela Benitez

    Pamela Benitez

    Founder & Director at The Virtual Events Experience

    Pamela Benitez

    Pamela Benitez has been an events manager with over 10 years’ experience creating VIP events and corporate entertainment. In 2019 she was part of the exclusive A-list TOP 35 under 35 agency players by C&IT Magazine.

    She started up the first social enterprise events agency specialized in virtual events experience, during the pandemic. A London based agency offering virtual experiences, event management, bespoke, socially aware events supply chain and platform representation. The experiences events are unique events hosted virtually by a celebrity or industry expert that can be used to entertain, educate and engage participants.

    The company purpose is to reinvest 51% of the business profits to promote relevant social causes through partnerships with Charities, Foundations and Social Enterprise & create and run events for unemployed events managers to improve their skills and find a new source of income. Currently donated almost £3,000.00 to different causes as Samaritans, Shaw Trust, Buses 4 Homeless, The Lewis Moody Foundation and more plus 8 courses in virtual events to unemployed event managers upgrade their skills.

  • Henry Hall

    Henry Hall

    Business Development Consultant from CrowdComms

    Henry Hall

    For over a decade CrowdComms have developed and delivered innovative, intuitive and cost-effective event tech solutions that are trusted by thousands of event planners around the globe. Our suite of event technology includes a Virtual, Hybrid and In-Person Event Platform, Registration Software, Super-fast Badge Printing Kiosks, Event Apps and Live Streaming Production Services – and all with the best event tech service and support you’ll find. Henry Hall, one of CrowdComms’ Business Development Consultants, will be presenting a range of engagement solutions currently available in the event tech market and the various strategies to enhance online attendee engagement.

  • Agata Krogulec

    Agata Krogulec

    Marketing and Communication Leader for Eastern Europe Cluster in Nielsen

    Agata Krogulec

    Experienced manager in the areas of PR, public affairs, crisis management and event organization. She gained experience in the telecom, FMCG and TV broadcasting industries. Passionate about media and show business.

  • Justyna Duszyńska

    Justyna Duszyńska

    CEO and Managing Director of Httpool Poland

    Justyna Duszyńska

    Justyna has 18 years of experience in digital sales and marketing solutions. She was developing and scaling a business, clients in Poland and CEE region. For many years as Executive Board Member, she worked for the biggest media companies in Poland: Onet SA, Ringier Axel Springer Polska, and Burda Media International introduced new ad-tech products in the area of video mobile, programmatic and online services.

  • Marta Idzikowska

    Marta Idzikowska

    Event Manager, Allegro Brand Experience

    Marta Idzikowska

  • DanRam

    DanRam

    Event MC, 5x TEDx Speaker, Public Speaking Coach

    DanRam

    Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach, his clients range from individual founders to national governments. His eclectic background growing up in 10 countries on 4 continents, his multi-continent education including Yale University and Trinity College, as well as his work in diverse industries from the UN to Consulting to Private Equity to Startups ensures that his clients are at the cutting edge of innovation.

    On the ground, he is the founder of several startups in multiple countries and has coached scores of founders and startups. At the national level, Daniel was part of the 7 person panel commissioned by Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to put together an Entrepreneurship Policy. He was recognized as Top 40 under 40 leader 2020 as well as Top 100 Yale Alumni in Technology 2021.

    DanRam travels the globe as an Event MC & Speaker at over 100 events a year. Hosting changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, F1 champion Nico Rosberg, Grammy-winning artists and celebrities, he works on 4 continents from college campuses to parliaments to in-house corporate innovation days for Fortune 500 companies to the biggest tech conferences in the world. His passion is to inspire people with his motto 'Start Now Start Simple’ in building a future we all want to live in.

  • Sabrina Meyers

    Sabrina Meyers

    Owner of Sabrina Meyers Consultancy

    Sabrina Meyers

    Sabrina Meyers is all about online engagement. From virtual event moderation to fostering social media communities, her expertise and insights come from personally having built online communities and understanding the power they have to fuel the engagement energy for virtual events. Join her session to understand how and why activating your brand’s social media communities can be the secret sauce to skyrocketing your virtual event’s success.

  • Brian Allan

    Brian Allan

    CEO of Rock Your Business

    Brian Allan

    Scottish singer and songwriter Brian Allan entertained audiences all over the world for 3 decades before creating Rock Your Business in 2007. Combining a natural talent for engaging people and motivating them so much that they felt a big part of his concerts, he took it one step further by creating a dynamic interactive format that made event attendees actually feel like rockstars as he turned, time and time again, unsuspecting audiences into an all-singing, all-dancing choir, within 60-90 mins. Within 18 months, Rock Your Business made hugely successful workshops for 65 multinational companies in 11 countries….and continue to do so 

    As a recording artist, Brian Allan got over 30 of his own compositions on the radio. As a producer he successfully managed and created a global star in US superstar Skylar Grey. As a songwriter he has worked with Timbaland, Paul Stanley (KISS), Rob Hoffmann (Christina Aguilera/Michael Jackson), Jim Beanz (Katy Perry/Justin Timberlake), Steve Dorff (Whitny Houston/Celine Dion) and many more.  

    Brian Allan is the proud father of 3 beautiful young children and believes in inspiring others by his own courageous actions and always following his dreams.

  • Anna Wolska-de Keijzer

    Anna Wolska-de Keijzer

    founder of Go Visual Concept

    Anna Wolska-de Keijzer

    Visual thinking expert. She helps businesses and content creator amplify brand message through visual thinking and strategy illustration so that she brings stories to life and make them more inspiring, engaging, and memorable.

  • Wesley Dodd

    Wesley Dodd

    Chief Executive of Celebro Media Studios

    Wesley Dodd

  • Stephane Roux

    Stephane Roux

    CEO & Co-Founder of Wonder, Forbes 30 under 30

    Stephane Roux

    When the pandemic hit, Stephane and his two co-founders launched Wonder, a virtual space where groups can interact in a way that facilitates more organic natural connections. Within a year, Wonder has hosted 4 million participants and raised 12 million USD of funding. Wonder’s vision is to make virtual events so good that people never want to go back to in-person. They are trying to understand what makes human interactions great and design a product that makes the experience of meeting people online feel natural and energising. Before founding Wonder, Stephane worked as a consultant for McKinsey and studied philosophy and sociology at Oxford, LSE and Harvard.

  • Cüneyt Şen

    Cüneyt Şen

    Business Development Manager at Zero Density

    Cüneyt Şen

    Cüneyt is Zero Density Business Development Manager for CEE, CIS and the Balkans. He has helped clients create immersive content and revolutionize storytelling in live events, esports and broadcast industries through the advanced real-time virtual studio and augmented reality platform Reality. Cüneyt has a rich background, including successful project management for various markets that he applies to his role in Zero Density.

  • Robert Weiss

    Robert Weiss

    President of MultiVision Digital

    Robert Weiss

    President of MultiVision Digital, a New York video production company that provides the full spectrum of video strategy, video production and video marketing services. Having produced over 900 videos since their inception, MultiVision Digital’s holistic approach has allowed clients to increase sales, lead generation, improve SEO rankings, increase awareness and client loyalty. Clients range from solo-entrepreneurs to global Fortune 500 companies across almost every industry. But more importantly have executed successful business video strategy plans for every business objective.

  • Dorota Wojtczak

    Dorota Wojtczak

    Marketing director at Live Age agency, member of the board of the Event Agencies Club SAR

    Dorota Wojtczak

    For over 15 years involved in the marketing industry, mostly in the area of media and events. She gained experience on the client’s, publisher’s and agency’s side. She worked, among others, in Freundschaft Group (ex: Scholz & Friends Warsaw), Onet-RAS Polska Group, she was also marketing manager for several polish news and business portals, like gazetaprawna.pl, dziennik.pl, prawnik.pl, forsal.pl.

    Since 2019, he has been a member of the board of SAR Event Agencies Club. She is the author of various publications and speeches at event conferences. In 2020, she received the Personality of the Year – Event Agencies Award in the MP Power Awards. Together with Live Age, in 2021 she gained several polish and international marketing and event awards, like Golden Arrow, Eventex, Złote Spinacze.

  • Valeria Samborskaya

    Valeria Samborskaya

    CEO and partner of Business Link Educational Agency

    Valeria Samborskaya

  • Adam Eunson

    Adam Eunson

    Founder of Croply

    Adam Eunson

  • Pin Up Candy

    Pin Up Candy

    Queen of polish burlesque

    Pin Up Candy

    The juror of the program Let’s Sing Together. All Together Now, semi-finalist of Got Talent Poland. Pin Up Candy presented her shows during TV New Year’s Eve, scooping the largest audience during the burlesque show in Poland. She is the ambassador of retro and pin-up style. She is not only the Queen but also a founder of Polish burlesque scene. She is traveling Worldwide with her shows: Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Moscow (where she won the burlesque crown) and even Ibiza! Pin Up Candy is a favorite of the corporate world, presenting the most desirable burlesque show with a giant glass of champagne, which she turned into an original show on a global scale. Candy is also a producer of burlesque events as Slavic Burlesque Festival, Burlesque Review or Warsaw Burlesque Night.

  • CNE

    CNE

    i.e. Tomasz Kleyff, known as the Man of the New Era

    CNE

    Rapper (Wielkie Joł, Baku Baku Skład, Gib Gibon Skład), one of the first freestyle rappers in Poland, music journalist, collaborated with MTV Polska and Viva Polska, creating one of the first Polish music programs (Rap Kanciapa, Rap Pakamera). Currently a director and creative producer of many commercial and television productions. Effie award winner for the employer branding campaign for McDonalds

  • Bartek Jaworski

    Bartek Jaworski

    Vision and sound director

    Bartek Jaworski

Hosts

  • Maciej Kautz

    Maciej Kautz

    Journalist, Host and Producer at Polskie Radio, Spark of Change co-host

    Maciej Kautz

    Maciej Kautz – TV & radio journalist whose smile breaks the ice. Since 2013, Maciej has been producing and hosting a talk-show in English on National Polish Radio (Polskie Radio). He works as Master of Ceremony for major conferences and corporate events, including TEDx, “I love marketing” as well as international events (eg. European Union Baltic Forum 2019).

    Maciej studied at Appalachian State University and University of Antwerp. He holds a Master of Laws degree from Adam Mickiewicz University. In 2018, he passed the qualifying exam and is now attorney-at-law in Poland.

  • Damian Urbańczyk

    Damian Urbańczyk

    TV host and Event Presenter, Spark of Change co-host

    Damian Urbańczyk

    Damian Urbańczyk is a TV host who creates an impressive blend of eloquence, a great sense of humor and positive attitude. He can host with equal passion a fashion show, press or science conference, a company event or grand celebrations and spectacular galas in Polish or/and English. Very experienced (works both in Poland and abroad), always committed and well prepared. 

  • Anna butrym

    Anna butrym

    Event Host, TV Presenter and Moderator, Spark of Change co-host

    Anna butrym

    Charismatic, energetic, and experienced TV presenter and host for variety of events held in Polish, English or Hungarian, moderator of panel discussions. Represented numerous prominent companies and institutions in Poland and abroad in multiple prestigious projects, worked for national TV in Poland. Hosted corporate, cultural and governmental events for small, expert or mass audiences, also in multilingual version. In her portfolio you can find hundreds of projects of various forms and themes – gala evenings, conferences, corporate gatherings, fashion shows, concerts, sport events and many more.

    Educated as a musician, hungarologist and translator, experienced as a videoblogger and voice actor, constantly deepens her knowledge about complex event production. Detailed portfolio available at www.annabutrym.pl

  • Łukasz Cioch

    Łukasz Cioch

    Event & Storytelling Strategies, Spark of Change co-host

    Łukasz Cioch

    International Conference Host
    Public Speaking Coach

    Łukasz runs a consultancy specializing in strategy development, event auditing and institutional storytelling. He works with cities, international businesses and organizations. He is also an experienced conference host (over 300 industry conferences, congresses and festivals, in Poland and abroad) and a passionate public-speaking coach, working with heads of institutions, business leaders and conference speakers. In 2020 alone, he facilitated over 80 conferences for clients in almost every EU country and beyond (incl. online/hybrid conferences).

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