From Scenarios to Strategies: Crafting Event Success with AI
Session Description:
AI is rapidly advancing and making a significant impact on businesses and society. Despite this potential, the events industry has been slow to embrace AI due to various challenges, such as the sheer number of available AI tools, limited staff, and the demanding nature of the profession. It’s time to go from theory to action. This learning lab will demonstrate the best-in-class tools (many at low or no cost) specifically tailored to empower event professionals to enhance all aspects of their event organization, data analysis, contracting, conference planning, marketing, and more. Attendees will work with sample event data and documents, facilitating immediate hands-on learning. The final exercise will be a team-based competition, a collaborative challenge to test the various tools.
Learner Outcomes:
Gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience with publicly available AI tools, including event-specific toolsets enabling you to seamlessly integrate AI into your event planning, operations, marketing, and analytics.
Equip yourself with actionable insights and skills to build better queries, optimize your prompts, and achieve better results to increase the value of AI tools.
Put theory into practice through a moderated exercise and collaborate with your fellow event professionals to brainstorm ideas for practical AI applications in critical areas of event planning and execution.
Qualifies for one clock hour towards CEM recertification.
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 11:15 am – 1:30 pm Location: The Piedmont Room (Above Park Tavern)
Schedule:
11:15 am - Registration & Networking
11:30 pm - Program & Lunch
1:30 pm - Adjournment
Registration & Fees ($5 will be added for onsite registrations):
Member: $55
Guest: $65
Student: $25
Location: The Piedmont Room (Above Park Tavern) 500 10th St NE Atlanta, GA 30309
The Piedmont room is one story above the Park Tavern, on the corner of Monroe Drive NE and 10th Street. The location is on the corner of Piedmont Park and venue overlooks the park. The building looks like a small chateau and has an orange tower. As you turn off Monroe onto 10th St, it is the first drive on right. There is an airstream travel trailer (silver) parked on the corner in the front as a coffee shop. As you pull through the drive, you will go around building to left and proceed to the parking guard house for your parking pass and parking access.
Rich Vallaster is the Dir. of Marketing & the Trade Show Wonk at A2Z Events. Rich has worked on some of the biggest and most well-known tradeshows and conferences. He is the Chair of the CEIR Research Council, CEM commission and actively teaches in the CEM program. Rich's expertise has been recognized in leading publications, including the NYTimes, Associations Now, Trade Show Exec, Skift Meetings, Meetings Today, Convene, and TSNN. He is a regular speaker at events such as ASAE, and Expo! Expo!, PCMA, and others, engaging with associations and event organizers.
With nearly 1,500 active members, the Southeastern Chapter of IAEE is and serves North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
Our mission at the Southeastern Chapter is to deliver relevant and highly focused services and activities designed to broaden the knowledge base, professional development and bottom lines of our members.
Recognizing that face-to-face networking is the backbone of our industry, the chapter hosts meetings or other events almost every month of the year including chapter luncheons, local meet-ups, a golf tournament and the Annual Summer Classic.
