Author archive for Rachel Boucher
How Facebook and IBM Took Conferences Digital in Different Ways
In the two weeks that it became clear COVID-19 would be choking out events in North America, with travel restrictions and quarantine orders setting off in domino effect, event teams behind their season’s b-to-b events had a big decision to make: to postpone or to pivot. For those companies that pivoted, it was a race...
Reopening Lessons from the Sports World: Supercross Finishes its Season
After a forced hiatus in mid-March due to COVID-19, Monster Energy AMA Supercross resumed made-for-TV-only racing on May 31 at Salt Lake City’s Rice–Eccles Stadium. The reopening plan included mandated prescreening and testing, PPE, sanitization efforts, social distancing, and a partnership with Alpinestars Medical Unit, which assists on-site. Even though there are no spectators, each...
Practice Makes Perfect: Inside Veritas’ Live Virtual Global Sales Meeting
There’s an elephant in the room when it comes to many virtual events: Not all speakers are as comfortable talking to a camera or screen as they are to an audience. They can’t feed off the energy in the room when, technically, there isn’t a room. In approaching a virtual pivot for its annual sales...
Q&A: A Microsoft Storyteller on the Power of Empathy
The pivot for event marketers has not only involved shifting from physical to digital where possible, it has required a shifting of messaging and goals to account for lives being changed and economic factors changing how brands conduct business. Over the years, storytelling has become a key component of marketing strategies to help humanize brands...