We have a crazy idea. Wanna help?

As we stand rooted in and welcoming you into The Age of Conversation (read more about that here!), Haute Dokimazo and QiqoChat are thrilled to announce the first-ever Age of Conversation Summit, September 9, 2020.

You know that we love a good “first-ever,” so here we go...this event will be 100% conversation based. There will be on demand content (but it’s all recorded conversations). There will be live podcast recordings (all conversations). There will be roundtable discussions and Spontaneous Think Tanks (100% discussion-based).

And here’s the 1st first ever: There will be sessions that are purely conference calls. Yes, remember back 5 months ago when you could have meetings with just your ears? We’re going to do that. Will it work? Will people remember how to talk on a phone and multitask? Will your mind be blown to join a conference session while walking the dog? Maybe. So we’re gonna try it. You wanna come?

Here’s our 2nd first-ever: If you are an event professional who has never worked on a virtual event before and need experience managing a virtual event in order to get experience to put on your resume for running virtual events, we need your help. We’re not asking you to volunteer, either. We want to pay you. We are looking for 10 virtual event newbies to join our project team and help us bring this event to life. In return, you will get PAID experience to put on your resume in the form of 5% of the event revenue. Tickets to participate will be $20, so if we sell 300 tickets, staffers will each get $300. If we sell 2,000 tickets, staffers will each get $2,000. Once we’ve gotten our 10 staff positions, we will also accept volunteer roles for others who are looking to beef up their virtual event portfolio.

Here are the positions we need to fill for this event in 6 weeks:

1. Schedule/session facilitator manager: Reach out to and schedule session facilitators, explain the event concept, schedule which sessions they can run, gather facilitator promotional assets.
2. On Demand content manager: Reach out to potential content creators, explain the concept, and manage the receipt and loading of their on demand content.
3. PR/Social media manager: Create and manage press releases and distribution to industry pubs, create and manage social posts across multiple platforms, and respond to comments and questions (design skills -even in Canva- highly encouraged!)
4. Media creation manager: Create and edit short promotional videos and collateral
5. Attendee/session facilitator communication manager: Write our emails that will go to prospective attendees and facilitators. Manage the cadence of email blasts for audience acquisition and for registered participants. Manage the session facilitator email blasts to keep them updated on everything they need to know.
6. Attendee concierge/customer support manager: Manage questions, requests for refunds, and any other administrative and customer support requests that come in.
7. Community Partner manager: Help us get and fulfill event sponsors and obligations to them. Sponsors can offer scholarships to groups of registrants, they can support the Experience Kits that get mailed to participants pre-event, they can get their logo added to The Age of Conversation Summit t-shirt, or we can partner with them on a custom experience of their choice!
8. Session administrators (3): Coordinate volunteers and session facilitators and act as host in the session rooms, ensuring everyone feels welcome, each session has the right vibe and experience, and jump in when needed to spur on the conversation

We’ll hold project meetings twice a week for one hour each to update each other on attendee numbers and project stream progress. We will record all project meetings so if you miss one, you can keep up with the progress via recording. We will have an ongoing project Slack channel for lightspeed communication and problem solving.

Here’s our 3rd first-ever: We’ve always said that we have a “steal this” mentality – you can steal any of our ideas, just tell people you got it from us! So all project meetings will be LIVE STREAMED on our YouTube Channel for everyone to experience what it’s like to create a virtual event from scratch, the HD way. The hope is that it will help others feel more confident as they plan their own virtual events, and it might even get us more input as we create this one!

Want a spot on the project team/the reality show? Drop me a line at [email protected] and let me know which role interests you and why it would be helpful to have experience doing it, and what relevant experience you already have in this realm that translates to the role. Deadline to apply is July 29th. Roles will be filled by July 31st.

Registration opens on Monday, July 27, 2020, so look for another post with more info then!

Liz Lathan, CMP is co-founder and CEO of Haute Dokimazo, a "spontaneous think tank” company that empowers participants to solve their business challenges through conversation fueled by the wisdom of peers. Haute Dokimazo and Haute Rock Creative are part of Haute Companies, a family of companies anchored in human connection, from events to media (podcasts, videos, and more) to direct mail to swag to entertainment talent management to strategy session facilitation.