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Ep. 32 – Resilience in Events With World Football Summit’s Jan Alessie

We know the pandemic had a huge impact on the meetings and events industry (and we know this like we know we breathe air!). Our guest on this episode is an event organizer who gives us a really interesting viewpoint after going through the thick of it and coming out the other side in an even better position.

Jan Alessie has a passion for football (aka, soccer, U.S. friends!), and has managed to merge his love of the sport with his love for bringing people together all over the world.

World Football Summit is one of many ventures Alessie has helped to found, and he gives us some really cool insight into how they have grown the show––and how they are still figuring things out (it’s refreshing to hear when others also don't have it “all figured out.”). And they have cracked the hybrid model!

"So with online, we were able to basically reach a lot more people, and that's obviously very beneficial for the speakers and for the partners because it allows us to reach a much bigger audience."

Our guest:

Jan Alessie a co-founder and director of World Football Summit. On a day-to-day basis he’s in charge of the general operations of the company, relationships with clients, speakers and collaborators and any new business ventures and ideas that they decide to embark on as a company. In this role and previous ones in the past, he has worked in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, identifying and building partnerships at the highest level of foreign governments and the private sector, organizing high-profile forums, negotiating and closing commercial deals, producing branded content, managing global media projects and leading commercial teams.

Alessi is also the founder of Nexus Fostering Partnership, the company responsible for the development of World Football Summit and was a founding member of South Summit, Spain’s largest event for startups, entrepreneurs and investors.

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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