TSNN Podcast: Trade Show Talk

Trade Show News Network is excited to share our ‘Trade Show Talk’ podcast which features two episodes each month focusing on hot-button topics. Each episode kicks off with a news round up before host Megan Powers leads discussions with trade show and events industry leaders. If you'd like to be a guest or you have a topic to suggest that we cover, please let us know by emailing podcast@tsnn.com. If you would like to sponsor a podcast series, please contact jrice@tsnn.com

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Ep.30 - EventTech Evolution with Kiki L’Italien

Our guest

KiKi L’Italien

Founder & CEO of Amplified Impact (formerly Amplified Growth) & host of Association Chat

As CEO and Host for Association Chat, an online community and media platform for the association industry, KiKi L’Italien reaches over 72k industry professionals monthly. Amplified Impact is a consultancy specializing in digital strategy and values-based strategic planning for the association sector. She is also a founding board member of SocialOffset, a nonprofit organization that provides a socially conscious alternative to event and destination boycotts.
KiKi is a creative, community, and trust expert with over twenty years of experience in organizational positioning, reaching key audiences while driving revenue. She regularly speaks to audiences about cultivating trust for teams and organizations.

Podcast Host: Megan Powers

Megan Powers is a creator and strategist who thrives on driving conversations and helping people learn. She has spent the majority of her career working in meetings and events, primarily serving in planning, sales, and marketing roles. Working for software companies, in a venue, in event production, and then running her own marketing agency have all led her to this very satisfying point of her career.

Megan has especially loved hosting and producing podcasts since 2016–she thrives on hearing stories and lessons from guests who get us all thinking in a different way. Her podcast Making a Marketer has been going strong since 2017, and she is delighted to be hosting Trade Show Talk for TSNN.

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