Event Professionals Now is a LIVE, choose-your-own-adventure virtual experience designed for the event pro seeking to grow beyond the ordinary.

3 Days of Sessions - Attendees can attend one or all three days

• Day 1 - Thursday, February 20, 2025, 8 - 11 a.m. PT
• Day 2 - Thursday, February 27, 2025, 8 - 11 a.m. PT
• Day 3 - Thursday, March 6, 2025, 8 - 11 a.m. PT

Session inspiration includes the following and beyond:

• Strategies for executing and managing various events, including trade shows, user conferences, virtual events, and more.
• Professional development skills needed to thrive include time management and forecasting, adaptability and resilience, managing up, effective communication, stress management, self-discipline and focus, staying curious with continuous learning, physical and mental endurance, and work-life balance.
• The state of the industry: where we are now, where we are headed, and how to build a strategy that gets us there.
• Collaborating with others in marketing and cross-functionally with sales, finance, product, and engineering.
• Tools we love and the challenges we face.
• Vendors we love and how to best partner.
• The strength of building and being part of a community.
• ROI and data: what to care about, who needs to be involved, and how to measure success.
• Sponsorship sales and management how to.
• The power of asking for feedback and holding people accountable before, during, and post-event. 
• Having empathy and patience during the main tailspins of events: Working with different perspectives and handling high-pressure situations. 

Session format:

• All sessions will be LIVE to encourage engagement.
• Sessions will be bite-sized, ranging from 10-30 min.
• All sessions will be recorded and available on-demand.
  

Here's how speaking can make a difference for you and the community:

• Experience newness and new trends: We're structuring the event and content differently to improve your (the speaker) and the attendees experience.
• Showcase your expertise while expanding your reach and influence while helping others.
• Grow your network with new vendors, attendees, and a special speakers channel via Slack.
• Increase your brand exposure: Visibility via video, social, Slack and sponsor promotions, during your live session, and post-event with on-demand. We'll also take each session and create follow-up content (bite-size video), checklists, and SOPs, which you can share with your audience as well.

Speaker expectations:

PRE-EVENT

• A speaker tech check is required. It should take 15-30 min.
• Join the EPN Slack to engage with attendees.
  
• Access to everything required to present successfully virtually (high-speed internet, computer, mic, video, etc.)
• Agrees to prepare engaging and out-of-the-ordinary content, with audience participation via Q&A, live polls, giveaways, welcoming chats, and or conversation starters.
• Aim to surprise and delight! Provide resources like templates, checklists, quotes, books to read, podcasts to listen to, etc.
• Storytelling: Share about your experiences.
• Attend a 15 min promo recording session. You can select the time that works best for you.
• Arrive 20 min early on the day of your session for virtual backstage check-in.
• Speakers are encouraged to provide exclusive offers like VIP coffee dates, mentorship for a month, swag, books, or other giveaways.
• Show excitement for your session and the event by posting on LinkedIn with hashtags #EventProfs and #EventProsNow.

POST-SESSION

• Stay 15 minutes after your session to answer attendee questions in the EPN Slack and post resources or further inspiration.
• Agree that we can take your session recording and create further post-event content to encourage attendees to thrive. 
• Sessions will be made available on-demand.

Questions?

Email contact@gregoryevents.com.