After SXSW 2020 was canceled due to Covid-19, we could not be more thrilled for the return of their annual event this Spring.
For the 2021 event, cred submitted 15 sessions covering topics including leveraging AI to eliminate bias, personalized medicine, and sustainable finance. Learn more about each of these sessions and be sure to vote for your favorites before the PanelPicker closes on Friday, November 20th!
Last week, The Ascent Conference hosted two days of learning and growth during their second annual event, focused on bringing together leaders in the tech community to learn, collaborate, and help accelerate innovation. Though typically Ascent focuses on the East Coast tech community, given this year’s constraints from COVID-19 and an industry shift to virtual, the event was hosted online—connecting ~6,000 founders, investors, SaaS professionals, and marketers within the startup community across the United States.
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.
It is important to note wellness means many things to different people. From physical, to emotional, to spiritual health, the pathway to self-care and wellbeing can take on many forms in order to successfully bring balance and alignment into our daily lives.
We’ve compiled a list of experts taking purposeful steps forward in conversations around collective health and wellbeing—bringing meaningful resources to weather the uncertainty we are living in and the days to come.
This post was originally posted on the GOODFest blog as a contributed article by cred.
Last week, DIG SOUTH Virtual Tech Summit brought together the best in emerging tech, business, and digital marketing. DIG SOUTH Virtual Tech Summit is an interactive experience powered by DIG SOUTH, a membership-based tech media company headquartered in Charleston, SC. The Summit connected DIG NATION members and other attendees to leading global brands and national tech execs, entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and other forward-focused experts.
We are four months into quarantine, and one of the many things that has changed in our new virtual lives is that events can no longer happen in person. Here at cred, we’ve been closely involved as the events industry has figured out the shift to virtual.
When live events do return, we do not see virtual going away. Virtual events are here to stay and the experience will only continue to improve as virtual event technology is enhanced and event planners, speakers, and attendees become more virtually savvy. This post will focus on the benefits we’ve seen from a speaking perspective.
