{"id":21441,"date":"2021-08-11T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/?p=21441"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:00:38","slug":"the-biggest-surprises-around-the-event-industry-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/the-biggest-surprises-around-the-event-industry-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Surprises Around The Event Industry Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As a part of our sit-down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naifproductions.com\/\">Naif Productions<\/a> CEO, Annette Naif, we dissected what really surprised event professionals, planners, and coordinators across the country about the altered landscape of the event industry after COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EHWlxV9Dz9c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Biggest Surprises Around The Event Industry Today\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHWlxV9Dz9c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Annette Naif<\/strong>: What has been the most surprising thing that&#8217;s happened in the event industry since the pandemic started?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jennifer Best<\/strong>: I would say, it&#8217;s got to be how much technology has evolved. You remember, in early 2020 everybody was like &#8220;let&#8217;s go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/follow-these-7-quick-tips-for-successful-virtual-events\/\">virtual<\/a>,&#8221; and everyone got on Zoom. Then, you had things called &#8220;Zoom Bombers&#8221; happening, and nobody knew how to do lighting and how to do camera positioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think so much has evolved since then. There are so many new technology players out there right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now those players are looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/how-to-create-dynamic-hybrid-events-an-interview-with-luke-goetting\/\">hybrid<\/a> options. So I think that really has been surprising for me \u2014 how fast we&#8217;ve gone and how far we&#8217;ve come in basically a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional event planning resources, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaespeakers.com\/event-planning-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.aaespeakers.com\/event-planning-resources\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of our sit-down with Naif Productions CEO, Annette Naif, we dissected what really surprised event professionals, planners, and coordinators across the country about the altered landscape of the event industry after COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[699,1573,1869,1976,673,179,1947,1917],"class_list":{"0":"post-21441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"tag-event-planning","9":"tag-event-professionals","10":"tag-events-industry","11":"tag-hybrid-events","12":"tag-speaker","13":"tag-speakers","14":"tag-virtual-event-speakers","15":"tag-virtual-events"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Biggest-Surprises-Around-The-Event-Industry-Today.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21441"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21606,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21441\/revisions\/21606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allamericanspeakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}