For JoAnne Spitale, Meetings Manager for SB Expos & Events, an active Digital Event Strategist certification gave her the knowledge she needed to keep up with these changes, and showed employers the depth of her expertise. She spoke with us about her path to earning a DES and why she continues to recertify.
Switching careers to follow your passion is an amazing feeling and can be a daunting measure, especially at the beginning of a global pandemic. That level of adversary didn’t stop Elodie Lortal, Catering Coordinator, National Arts Centre, Canada, it empowered her.
Learn from Northern Ireland's key business event professionals on how the Digital Event Strategist Certification has prepared them for the reopening of the industry.
As part of Fáilte Ireland’s recovery plan, they and their partners, namely Abbey Conference & Events undertook the Digital Event Strategist (DES) certification to deliver digital events for their clients throughout the pandemic.
It doesn’t matter where you are in the world — the skills to successfully put on a digital or hybrid event transcend cultural boundaries. The only limitation? Your imagination. When COVID-19 shut the world down, the event industry was one of the hardest hits.
Alaina Faiello, Vice President, Professional Development, NAIFA, spent time completing the DES course. This is her story.
Digital events are nothing new to Kristin Malek, Event Management Extension Specialist and Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. As virtual events took a dominant role in 2020, Malek was ready to ace anything life threw at her, including a successful hybrid event done with her students that reached six countries and 16 states.
There is no better education than one you can find in the real world and in the last year, there was no better teacher than being forced to put digital-first. A scary step for some and for others, like Digital Event Strategist graduate, Jonathan Tok, it was a proving ground.
Wine, digital events and the hospitality industry – normally not a mixture you would find but as it turns out, it is a true recipe for success. Maria Dempsey, CMM, DES, CSW, Wine Educator and Director of Hospitality and Events for Gen7 Wines recently completed the Digital Events Strategist course, offered by PCMA.
What do you do when the pandemic has disrupted the way you conduct business? Do you give up and wait for this to blow over and a sense of normalcy to take place? Or do you re-skill, become nimble and turn your eyes toward the future? Liza Lampi, owner of Eventive Meetings was faced with that exact scenario.
Digital events transcend sectors, professions and companies. If 2020 has shown us anything it is that the world was not ready for such an abrupt transition toward digital, yet as we take bigger steps each day, digital is seeping into our way of life. Erica Gifford, Marketing Project Specialist at APITech had to make that transition with developing over 50 digital courses using what she learned in the DES Course.
Ronald Kim, Co-founder & Event Producer, Think Events started this journey of technological discovery back in 2018. That forward thinking didn’t magically make the pandemic easier; he still needed to navigate the landscape of a digital event. Here is his story.
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