Practical conversations from inside event production.
Event Industry News Podcast is an interview-led trade show for people who build, staff, sell, design, and run events. Recent conversations move from Confex 2026 show-floor recordings to catering logistics, inflatable venues, delegate welfare, immersive brand meals, robotics, AI, and training routes into corporate production.
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Event Industry News Podcast looks at the events sector from the working side of the curtain. It favors careful, practical interviews over polished trend packages. The format gives guests room to explain how their part of the industry functions, from creative design to food service to training. Recent episodes make the show feel especially close to the trade floor. Recordings from Confex 2026 place the conversation inside an Evolution Dome structure at XL London, with the surrounding exhibition context becoming part of the texture rather than just a backdrop. That setting matters. The show is interested in how event people meet, learn, sell, and solve problems in real time. A conversation with Lefteris Angelidis moves through Visual Architects, set design, robotics, AI, and the shift from remote connection to in-person industry contact. Another with Jens Nissen from Bubble Food turns event catering into a detailed operations subject. Food is not treated as decoration. It becomes a question of technique, logistics, power, staffing, service flow, and what changes when the kitchen has to move with the event. The training-focused Confex conversation is similarly grounded. It discusses foundation skills, career switchers, attention to detail, passion, and the reality that events attract people whose working lives may not follow one long linear job path. Other recent topics point toward delegate welfare, inflatable spaces, immersive brand storytelling, and the hidden stress of in-house event managers. The show’s strength is its patience. It lets industry people make the case for details that outsiders might miss, then keeps returning to how those details affect teams, audiences, and delivery. The result is a useful listen for event professionals who want context they can apply, not just inspiration they can admire.
Made for: Built for event organisers, venue teams, suppliers, production crews, trainers, marketers, and anyone entering the events business. It especially suits listeners who want operational context rather than surface-level trend talk.
What sets it apart: Its value is in the translation from big event themes to the details that make them work: staffing, power, logistics, welfare, training, design, and supplier realities. The live Confex 2026 recordings add a trade-floor immediacy that keeps the conversations close to practice.
Welcome to the Event Industry News podcast, the leading portal for event organisers. Each week we invite industry guests on to the show to discuss a range of topics with event management.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical guest conversations reveal the operational choices, data work, and specialist coordination behind the events business.
James Dixon treats the events business as a chain of practical decisions, using guest interviews to connect strategy with what happens on the floor.
A hot counter trips the circuit; suddenly your event checklist has a new line item.
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A grounded discussion of entering events, building core skills, and finding a career path that rarely moves in a straight line.
Training comes through as a clear entry point into the events industry, with Confex 2026 giving the discussion a timely setting for students and career switchers weighing up where to start.
A chef makes the case that event catering depends as much on power, logistics, and timing as it does on cooking.
Event catering is treated here as a live operating system, not just a meal service. Jens Nissen, director and executive head chef at Bubble Food, explains how the job stretches past cooking into technique, heat, logistics, power, movement, and timing.
A grounded look at how GEI 2026 turns sustainability priorities into a practical conference program.
Sustainability at live events comes through here as a programming challenge as much as an environmental one. In this single-episode review of GEI 2026, the Green Events and Innovations Conference, James Dixon speaks with Claire O'Neill, CEO and co-founder of AGF, about how the…
A practical look at how delegate data can support exhibitor insight, content choices, and future event layout.
Event Industry News Podcast follows Closer Still Media's use of supplier data and BI dashboards to understand delegates and guide sales and marketing decisions.
A grounded look at how digital specialists can support the shifting demands of event marketing.
Event marketing becomes harder when teams have more data than time to use it well. James Dixon's conversation with Nicola Shaw from Tag Digital looks at that pressure through data blindness, digital marketing, and the value of bringing outside digital support into an internal…
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Family grief, public questions, and the responsibilities of care.
Tag Digital helps event organizers make money year-round by selling access to their visitor data to exhibitors.
How a digital department was built from prototypes to transform event marketing at CloserStill.
James Dixon interviews Karen Saraguzzi, co-founder of TeamTogs, about their 20-year history in branded merchandise for events.
Adam Parry interviews Steve Heap about the 10th anniversary of The Purple Guide Grant Scheme, which has funded 24 outdoor event projects with over £318,000.
David Tremel (In Loco Events) and Louisa Watson (Wyboston Lakes) explain how BEAM, founded in 2018 as an association by agents for agents, now includes venues, creative agencies, AV and tech companies.
James Dixon introduces Present Communications as the new sponsor of the Event Industry News podcast and interviews managing director Kieran Garlick about their event production services.
James Dixon interviews Alex Pern, CEO of Clink, about a report on stress among in-house event managers.
James Dixon interviews Katie Whitby about delegate welfare initiatives at the venues collection, recorded at a trade show.
James Dixon interviews Ash Austin, founder of Evolution Dome, about their 15-year journey providing inflatable event structures.
James Dixon interviews Lefteris Angelidis, creative director of Visual Architects, about how set design, robotics, and AI are shaping events, recorded live at Confex 2026.
Confex 2026 sets the scene.
Bubble Food turns "a boutique level restaurant level experience" into event catering across London venues.
Claire O'Neill says GEI 2026 added a third room for niche topics like "the deep dive into toilets" and "lose you choose."
James Dixon interviews Johanna Byrain at Allianz Stadium in Twickenham about converting a rugby venue into a flexible events campus with 34 event spaces, a Radisson Red hotel, restaurants, a museum, and pitch-side formats.
James Dixon interviews Nathan Angus, Natalie Evans, Darren Wayne, and Alex Gardner about event production, temporary staffing, broadcasting, and event management from Stream7's Sheffield headquarters.
Adam Parry interviews Steve Heap about the 10th anniversary of The Purple Guide Grant Scheme, which has funded 24 outdoor event projects with over £318,000.
James Dixon interviews Sam Pearce, commercial manager of Exhibit 360, about the company's background and services in the event industry.
James Dixon introduces Rakeem Asher, head of digital and CRM at CloserStill Media, for an interview on the Event Industry News podcast.