The Big Pivot - Rachel Heller - Speaking of Events - Episode # 019

Today’s guest has a passion for bringing people together. Appearing on her first non-company podcast, please welcome Rachel Heller, the Senior Event Content Manager at Bizzabo. Rachel thrives on making connections and is a self proclaimed “event content nerd”. Rachel joins Kerri to share her tips on professional event planning.      Takeaways: Events bring people together and it creates amazing opportunities when you bring other people together who have never met each other. During “The Big Pivot”, a lot of event professionals had to change over to getting speakers used to using webcams and speakers and other technology. It’s easier to ask someone to speak to a camera rather than a room full of 1,000s of people.  Speakers need to put a little more thought into their titles and abstracts that they create for their sessions. With more virtual events, it allows for people who wouldn’t have traveled before to be a speaker at an event. During the past couple of years, there have been more female speakers at events. The pandemic has forced the event industry to get creative with how they work events so that everyone can attend.   Quote of the Show   4:50 “What I love the most about events is what happens when you bring people together.” Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelcoheller/ Website: https://www.bizzabo.com/ Ways to Tune In: Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a158d222-4beb-4c72-9569-0916e79a80f4/speaking-of-events Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speaking-of-events/id1611059542 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/699re9JSEnwNXnrNLGLUkz Google Play - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3BlYWtpbmdvZmV2ZW50cy5jb20vZmVlZC54bWw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwiI6PWe2o73AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en YouTube - https://youtu.be/7_Q07n91Y1s