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Welcome back to The Lookout! I hope you’re having a great week. This week PIRATEx was proud to unveil our latest edition of the 2021 Eventtech Landscape Map for Online Experiences. Since the pandemic’s pivot to entirely online events, our team has been working hard…
[Last Update: April 15th, 2021] When the event industry was forced online in 2020, software developers got busy. The pandemic created a new market of opportunity for event technology, spurring the creation of a dizzying array of software products for an industry that had to…
Welcome back to The Lookout! Another Friday, another chance to catch up with the world of online events before diving into your well-deserved weekend! But remember, don’t drink and dive. But random thought first: have interior designers been making a whole lot more money with…
Welcome back to The Lookout! I hope you’re having a great week. We have been blown away by the feedback from last week’s eventtech ecosystem map. It’s been truly incredible to hear the reception from many of the platforms as well as many in the…
PIRATEx Deep Dive with Iraklis Alexopoulos, co-founder of Balloon Once upon a time, far before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Iraklis Alexopoulos and Ray Dargham were working in the robotics space, investigating prospective startup ideas. The two longtime friends and collaborators had been embedded deeply…
Welcome back to The Lookout! I hope you’re having a great week– we’ve made it through January and we’re here in February already. Things have surely moved quickly in the beginning of the year. On the horizon for the events industry, there’s a lot of…
When you compare all types of event stakeholders, from attendees, to speakers, to sponsors, to exhibitors, there’s one category that consistently expresses lower satisfaction levels with online events. Can you guess who it is? According to various surveys and research done in the past year,…
Welcome back to The Lookout! I hope you’re having a great week. We’ve been busy at PIRATEx putting together our first client events for the year, as well as taking the chance to do a very thorough overview of the entire ecosystem of event technology.…
Hey there, welcome back to a new edition of The Lookout! This week, I’ve been really inspired by some of the incredible innovations event organizers are bringing to their work. And I’m not talking about Clubhouse. At least not yet. From the technology, to the…
Hey there, welcome back to a new edition of The Lookout! It’s been a huge week for the event world, opening with the splashy launch of the entirely online version of the Consumer Electronics Show. The virtual CES has pushed the boundaries of what is…
First of all: Happy New Year! We at PIRATEx wish you all the best for this upcoming year and hope that you encounter many great experiences. Be it online or offline. I’m excited to be back, and in 2021 I’ll keep bringing the latest developments…
Is it Friday already? No, don’t worry. You still got some days until 2021. I just wanted to pop in with a very special installment of the newsletter this holiday season. We’re still in the midst of the holiday break here at PIRATEx, and I…
Happy Friday and welcome back to the latest installment of The Lookout. It’s the last regular edition before the end of the year, and I’ve packed it with plenty of great reads and top takeaways for 2020. We are taking a bit of a holiday…
Happy Friday and welcome back to the latest installment of The Lookout! There have been so many new developments reported in the online event world this week and a lot of opinions about the virtual experience of events’ attendees. It’s been exciting to see so…
Happy Friday and back to another installment of The Lookout! I hope you have been having a great week! Here are some of the things we’ve been excited about in the online event world this week, including a little something about virtual trade fairs. Online…