NPA 109 How to Run a Hybrid Event: Anca Trifan

Season 3 EP 44

Can you keep both in person, and online audiences engaged in an hybrid event? Anca Trifan will inspire you to create a memorable event that all your audiences will love.

Conversation Highlights: 

{00:32} Introduction to guest

{09:11} How do you even keep people engaged in online events?

{18:39} Using crowdsourcing and data. 

{21:05} How do you keep both in person and online audiences engaged in an hybrid event?

{45:05} Do something that's going to be quality, engaging on a smaller scale, and people are going to be shouting your name from the rooftops for the right reason and not for the wrong reason. 

Remarkable quotes: 

You can create any kind of experience that you want to create. 

 Zoom fatigue is a big thing.

You want someone that is watching online to be able to still say, “I'm getting a lot of value from this event”.

You're going to make this event based on data and based on what you know about your event.

What are the goals and what are you trying to accomplish? 

Resources: 

Bio for Anca Trifan

Founder, Creator, CEO 

ANCA TRIFAN 

(sound-alike anka treefun) 

Anca is the founder, creator, and CEO for Tree-Fan Events – a boutique event planning and production agency that is offering event planning consultation, experience design and production management for live, virtual, and hybrid events.  

Anca is the Host of “Events: demystified”, a tactical Podcast for anyone in the events industry, beginner or pro where entrepreneurs, event professionals, influences, and event industry leaders from the events community share their personal & professional experiences with her audience. 

Anca has worked in event productions for over twenty years and has extensive experience and knowledge in the areas of technical event productions, event planning, event design, and management and will walk you through the entire event planning and production process with the highest level of standards to design a perfect and seamless event. 

Anca‘s many years of working large scale events on the front lines as a certified event planner and technical event producer, with the added skills of being a professional FOH (front-of-house) sound engineer, lighting designer, and video director, have paved the way for planning and executing different types of events while wearing numerous hats over the years, from Sound Engineer, to Event Planner, Principal Event Producer, and Technical Director. While these days she mainly fills the Event Planner and Technical Producer roles, she still runs sound weekly for and fills in any tech roles needed during events. Her main focus in the last ten+ years has been on strategic event planning, event and account management, contract negotiations, budgets and ROI and emerging event technologies for fundraisers, live and online auctions, for-profit/non-profit events and corporate events, 1-2 day conferences and annual meetings, providing planning services and technical production support to clients, attendees, sponsors, vendors and team members to ensure a successful, seamless and memorable event experience.  

 She has earned the internationally recognized CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) designation by the Events Industry Council and takes her role seriously by constantly researching and implementing cutting-edge technology tools to benefit memorable event experiences while offering excellent customer service that enables long-lasting relationships.  

 She is an advocate for women in the technology world, which is being fueled by a deep conviction and passion that there’s a need for more women role models in the production event world. By personal example, Anca wants to encourage and empower women to believe in their unique selves, skills, talents, creativity, emotional intelligence, and sensibility that can provide an amazing contribution to the technology world! She is an eternal optimist and a strong believer in the goodness of people, as well as passionate about the outdoors, environmental sustainability, lover of all things alive and green (hence the company name: Tree-fan), community involvement, and development. 

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