About this event
The difference between a mind-blowing event and one that is just "meh" depends on the caliber of your speakers and sessions.
The journey to get there, is anything but simple—especially when managing the process across in-person and hybrid formats.
Join conference vets Jon Melgaard, Producer of Aspen Ideas Festival and Sarah Toews, Conference Manager at Clarion Energy Events, as they share lessons learned managing thousands of speakers and sessions.
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Jonathan Melgaard is a producer with the Aspen Ideas Festival, the flagship program of the Aspen Institute. There, he has helped transition the event from an in-person convening, to a digital only program, and now a hybrid offering.
Sarah is a conference manager for three energy events in the US: HYDROVISION, DISTRIBUTECH and POWERGEN. She launched the Initiate startup program at POWERGEN in 2019 and has been integral to the growth of this relatively new program in the US. Sarah has been at Clarion Energy Events for over two years and before that, she was a Spanish educator. She loves working with energy professionals and enjoys meeting innovators from around the world.
High quality speakers and content are the heartbeat of any event. That’s what inspired us to create Sessionboard. Our platform simplifies the complex workflows and disjointed communications that exist around speaker and content management today. The results? A faster-growing event, more productive s