The Smart Event Foundations (SEF) program is a six-week hands-on training course and certification program to make you and your team event tech savvy. No confusing terminology, no complex systems.
Using our mock event — CoffeePalooza — we walk you and your team through an event technology implementation from marketing site to post-mortem.
Digital event strategy and event tech basics are baked into every step in the process.
Registration will be opening again soon, so get on the waitlist today to secure your spot.
57% of marketers increased their spending on event tech in 2022, according to a recent Forrestor survey, with a focus on streamlining registration and tech experience. With the explosion of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools along with growing attendee expectations for personalized experiences, you can bet that that number isn’t going down anytime soon.
As a result, understanding how event tech fits into the overall event delivery experience is becoming table stakes for every delivery organization. Even if you aren’t an event tech delivery org, you MUST understand the basics in order to communicate effectively with the event tech delivery team and loop them in at the appropriate time in the process.
The Smart Event Foundations (SEF) certification program is designed to give you and your team the insights and vocabulary you need to confidently work with event tech providers – or become a provider yourself. You’ll know what questions you need to ask and when to ask them to let you and your team plan – and deliver – with more ease.
By partnering with the Smart Event Academy for your event tech training needs, you remove the training burden from your organization and hand it over to a team led by people with more than a decade of experience delivering digital event strategy and event technology for some of the world’s largest companies and most prestigious events.
Your team will get a consistent training experience with a proven methodology. We take everything we’ve learned in the past decade — event tech lifecycle, client and project management best practices for events, event strategy, and event and event tech terminology — and bundle that up into a six-week, mock-event style program for team to experience event tech from start to finish.
As close to a real event as you can get without stepping foot on the show floor
We combine self-paced online training with weekly live Q&A calls and a six-month mentoring program to help with the transition from classroom to a live event.
Using a mock event format, we’ll deliver the imaginary hybrid event, CoffeePalooza, taking it from event brief through to event delivery. We’ll go step-by-step through the planning process and build out our event from the ground up so you can see first-hand how all of the pieces — in-person, virtual, and hybrid — fit together.
Registration will be opening again soon, so get on the waitlist today to secure your spot.
With three decades of IT consulting and project management experience and more than a decade leading event tech at some of the world’s largest companies, Jen Santos brings a deep understanding of technology, project management, client management, and event strategy to the Smart Event Academy. Her clients call her the OG of the event tech space.
Event clients include Microsoft, GitHub, CES, Oracle, and Splunk.
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In this context, event tech means the online components — from the marketing site to registration to the content system to the schedule builder to the digital venue — that’s required to deliver an event.
A/V (audio visual) and production are not a part of this program beyond integration tips and tricks.
