Julius Solaris

Virtual event technology company Hopin just announced it has closed one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the event industry. 

The massacred event industry has been in need of some good news for a while. The news came this morning with the announcement of a 90% effective vaccine.

The second wave of the pandemic has hit, virtual events keep gaining traction. The environment is uncertain. The signs of polarization we covered a while ago have worsened. On one side, there are those that want to go back to live at all costs. On the other, those that are thriving with virtual events. The […]

In August, Germany performed an experiment with 1,500 participants to understand how the Coronavirus spreads at events. Here are the results.

Right after posting this tweet on the state of networking during virtual events Most agree that networking at virtual events is a problem. Yet Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Snap do social networking. The question is should we ask virtual event tech to deliver it or integrate with those that do it right? — Julius […]

What we know about the Covid-19 crisis is that we don’t know much. 

When the first signs of what turned out to be the most disastrous moment for the event industry started to surface, many of us thought that we would be back in action by the summer. The truth is that we are still at square one in the fourth quarter of 2020. With many countries experiencing […]

Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox shared his vision for a faster return to events, including doubling down on testing with an onsite lab. Will it help with the return to large meetings?

Nevada’s Governor Sisolak just announced that gatherings of up to 1,000 attendees can happen in Las Vegas.

Clubhouse is the app of the moment. Extremely popular within Silicon Valley, it is spurring what Jeremiah Owyang described during our last event as ‘ephemeral content’. Strangers start rooms talking about a variety of topics, from inclusion and diversity to technology. “There is serendipity happening in some of these apps where you’re talking to strangers […]