Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 2.0 REPLAY

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Hey, this is Author and Conference Organizer John Chen. I know it's all about Connection and Content! I'm proud to announce this year's EVM2 line up, among the top in engaging and virtual meetings.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 - The Next Level of Connection

8:30am PST – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am - John Chen, Beat Zoom Fatigue - The 6 Secrets to Engaging Virtual Meetings

10:00am - Michelle Cummings, Connection Before Content – 10 Virtual Icebreakers You Can Use Right Away

11:00am – John Chen & Michelle Cummings, Connection Before Content Part 2 – Creating Connections Now

12:00pm – Jan Keck – Connection By Design – Authentic Connections Don’t Happen By Accident Online

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 - The Next Level Now

8:30am – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am – Lisa Rothstein – Drawing Out Your Genius - Doodle Your Way to Less Boring, More Memorable and More Collaborative Meetings

10:00am – Gil Peretz, Never Zoom Alone – 7 Lessons From Breaking The Record of a 24-Hour Zoom

11:00am – John Chen – Turn On The Damn Camera Now – How To Create Virtual Psychological Safety

12:00pm – Jeff Evans – Magic! And The Magic Behind The Magic!

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

Thursday, October 21st, 2021 - The Next Level Tomorrow

8:30am – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am – Tina Mitchell, Tragedy to Triumph – Using Powerpoint As Background To Save A Life

10:00am – John Chen, I’m Not Producing, You’re Producing – 10 Producer Secrets To Your Next Virtual Meetings To The Next Level

11:00am – Tyler Parris, Engaging Virtual Makeover, Work From Home Edition! – How I Went From My Kitchen To The Top 1%

12:00pm – Samantha Evans, Creating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Meetings - How Baking Digital Accessibility Into Your Virtual Meetings Optimizes Engagement.

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

Friday, October 22nd, 2021 - The Next Level And Beyond

8:30am – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am – Anthony Metten, Resilience Through Individuation – It’s Time To Talk About YOU!

10:00am – Monica Cornetti, Best Practices for Implementing Gamification for Virtual Meetings – Serious Play

11:00am – John Chen, Thinking Cinematically, The Secrets of Creating a Broadcast Studio

12:00pm – John Lombardo, Engaging Through Music – And The Premiere Of The Engaging Virtual Meeting Anthem

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 - The Next Level of FUN!

8:30am – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am – Engaging Virtual Jeopardy – Pop Culture

10:00am – Name That Tune

11:00am – Engaging Virtual Bingo

12:00pm – Engaging Virtual Escape Room – The Paper Son

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

7:00pm – Engaging Virtual Karaoke Competition!

Do your virtual meetings suck? Do you want to beat Zoom Fatigue? Do you want to host the most engaging virtual meetings?

It’s over a year after pandemic and our research shows that ENGAGEMENT is still the #1 problem on virtual meetings.

Hi, I'm John Chen, the author of Engaging Virtual Meetings. What YOU need is the Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 2.0: The Next Level. The Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 2.0 is a 5-day conference with 9 of the world’s experts on hosting virtual meetings.

Click the video to learn more!

UPGRADE TO VIP

Engaging Virtual Meetings is like a live concert.

Do you want to listen to your concert from the back of the parking lot?

OR do you want to be in the FRONT ROW!!!

Click the video to find out why you must upgrade to VIP!

Discover Your Next Level

When Chris Houston contacted me early pandemic last year, he shared he’s one of the top in person executive facilitators in the world, but he had no idea what to do in a pandemic. After he attended the Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 1.0, he discovered how much can be done, AND EVEN MORE! He helped lead an engaging and valuable world-wide company retreat with attendees from the US, London, and India. This retreat changed the company’s strategy and proved way more value than NOT doing it.

VIP = FRONT ROW!

That’s the value you’re going to get when you register now for the Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 2.0. This conference is so engaging, so valuable, so fun, like a live concert! Now how do you like to experience your concert? Would you want to be outside the stadium, listening from the parking lot? OR would you rather be in the FRONT ROW???

The VIP pass is YOUR FRONT ROW ticket to this conference! Instead of watching the livestream on Facebook which is like listening to your favorite concert in the parking lot, you’ll be logged into Zoom with access to each of the experts which is like the FRONT ROW! Normally this ticket is $600, but right now it’s 50% off if you have a discount code from any one of our experts. I know, pay for a virtual conference? Why? What does $297 get you?

Well remember you don’t have to upgrade to VIP now. But if you did, you would get:

The Engaging Virtual Meetings VIP ToolBox

This box comes with the Engaging Virtual Meetings Library of books to help your virtual meetings including an autographed copy of Engaging Virtual Meetings just for you. You’ll also get the Engaging Virtual Meetings Toolkit, over 20 items you can use over and over again to create engagement in your meetings. The box itself is an engaging activity we’ll do at the conference! This box is the MODEL for you if you host virtual conferences! The box is valued at over $100.

This is more than a conference, this is a COMMUNITY!

You’ll get access to the Engaging Virtual Meetings VIP Community. You’ll be invited to exclusive trainings and networking before the conference and up to a year after the conference. This community is KEY to getting your up-to-the minute questions answered and saving hundreds of hours in the upcoming year. Just one solution is valued at over $1,000.

Tony Robbins once said Proximity is Power!

You’ll get proximity to the 9 virtual masters. Each master is highly skilled in what they do and wants to help you solve your problems. You’ll learn what each master is providing and find exclusive ways to share that knowledge to help elevate your virtual meetings. Tyler Parris, last year’s attendee and Chief of Staff Expert says, “Last year was junior high, this year is high school” Elevating your game through proximity with these experts is worth well over $10,000.

MOST OF ALL, this conference can change EVERYTHING for you!

Unlike a motivational conference, the Engaging Virtual Meetings conference has business value. Participants have said this completely changed how they virtually meet. Salespeople have said how much MORE EFFICIENT they are at their job now. Registering now gives YOU the TOOLSET of delivery. This will immensely improve your daily life. One person even said (CLICK), “I may NEVER have to get on a plane again!” I can personally tell you that these skills helped ME sell over a quarter of a million dollars in the past year.

Now ask yourself, how much is $297? It’s just $24.75/month. That’s less than 5 lattes per month. That’s less than one meal out per month. It’s less than a tank of gas per month.

In fact, I’m going to give you the option to pay just $24.75/month for 12 months if that makes it easier for you!

I want to personally invite you to our Engaging Virtual Meetings VIP Community. I’ll guarantee it will improve your virtual meetings or your money back. Hey look, I can’t make vaccines, but I CAN help YOU make your virtual meeting MORE ENGAGING.

Don’t miss out, click now!

Register and join me at the Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 2.0, October 19th through the 23rd and let’s take your next virtual meeting to the next level!

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Tuesday, October 19th, 2021, 9:00am - John Chen, Beat Zoom Fatigue - The 6 Secrets to Engaging Virtual Meetings

Are you working from home?

Are you suffering from Zoom fatigue?

Do you want to lead the most engaging virtual meetings?

Then you want Engaging Virtual Meetings. Engaging Virtual Meetings shows you the key secrets to having your attendees say, “I have more energy (rather than less) after 60 minutes meeting with you!”. When you learn Engaging Virtual Meetings, you will learn:

• The 6-step ENGAGE method to solve your virtual meeting challenges

• Fix attendees talking over each other

• How to look good virtually

• How to engage everyone even if someone else is talking

• How to use virtual tools to get work done

• Powerfully close your meeting and take steps to make your next meeting even more engaging

John started Geoteaming 23 years ago and is a recognized thought leader on engaging virtual meetings. He is the John Wiley and Sons author of “Engaging Virtual Meetings” and “50 Digital Team Building Games”, a top selling business book. John’s clients learn from his over 35 years of virtual meeting experience. His work has earned him multiple awards. More than 230,000 clients across the United States and in countries including Spain, France and Taiwan have experienced breakthrough results. John is the extreme leader of Geoteaming – he climbs mountains, walks on fire, swims with dolphins in the wild, rides Harleys, organizes Super Bowl Suites while meeting with people from around the world from his computer. When you meet John, you will encounter a dynamic, energetic and effective facilitator who makes friends with everyone. He will help you and your team become the top 1% at what you do.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021, 10:00am - Michelle Cummings, Connection Before Content – 10 Virtual Icebreakers You Can Use Right Away

You probably already know that converting regular activities into virtual activities isn’t as simple as just finding an online meeting room to use. There are many additional things to consider and it requires some creativity, re-imagining and redesigning, all while keeping the integrity of the program intact.

In the virtual world, it’s even more critical to help keep people connected when individuals may feel more isolated and less a part of your team. Reserving a mere ten minutes at the beginning of your sessions can help reduce any barriers that may be between people, create more empathy and understanding of others behaviors and help clarify the sense of purpose for those that you share a workspace with. Leaders who are able to be vulnerable with their teams and share some of their failures helps make them more approachable and relatable. Creating time and space for Connection Before Content will strengthen your teams in ways you cannot even imagine.

This workshop will focus on essential virtual facilitation skills, and creative tips and tricks to make your virtual sessions be more fun and engaging.

1. Learn multiple virtual icebreaker activities you can implement immediately.

2. Understand the importance of Connection Before Content and how it helps teams.

3. Learn tips and tricks for different ways to keep participants engaged in a virtual setting.

Michelle Cummings is the Big Wheel & founder of Training Wheels, a known leader in the teambuilding field. She is an accomplished author and sought-after speaker and consultant in the areas of leadership, teambuilding, and experiential learning. Michelle has created a variety of facilitation, debriefing and teambuilding activities that have collectively changed the way trainers work.

Social media handles: Twitter: @TrainingWheels1

Twitter: @MichelleCSocial

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellecummings/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.cummings.author

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrainingWheelsGroup

October 19th, 2021, 11:00am – John Chen & Michelle Cummings, Connection Before Content Part 2 – Creating Connections Now

John Chen and Michelle Cummings will lead you in the best initiatives, exercises and openers to help you create a connection with someone at this conference. Tuesday,

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021, 12:00pm – Jan Keck – Connection By Design – Authentic Connections Don’t Happen By Accident Online

In a time when we need human connection more than ever - it seems that regular, unfacilitated Zoom calls won't solve the problem of feeling disconnected, isolated and alone.

The workplaces that have gone remote have changed the way we interact with each other:• We don't have more watercooler conversations• We aren't hanging out with others over lunch or after work• We don't bump into each other in the hallways

In teaching over hundreds of experience designers, trainers and facilitators I have learned one important detail about gathering groups online:

Authentic connections don't just happen by accident online - we need to design them.

In this interactive session you'll experience and learn how to:• Design Opportunities for Genuine Connection in your Zoom Meetings• Engage your Participants even if they suffer from Zoom Fatigue• Get close to 100% of attendees to turn ON their video (without begging)

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021, 9:00am – Lisa Rothstein – Drawing Out Your Genius - Doodle Your Way to Less Boring, More Memorable and More Collaborative Meetings

Even if you think you can't draw your way out of a wet paper bag, I'll show you that you CAN communicate visually with only a few lines, to add more engagement, inclusion and fun to your virtual meetings, while making their content 65% more sticky. Have paper and pens or a tablet handy for this interactive session.

Lisa Rothstein is a former Madison Avenue advertising agency associate creative director/copywriter on brands such as IBM and Unilever. She is currently a cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine and a visual/verbal strategist, graphic synthesizer and creative catalyst for innovative companies in the technology and consumer packaged goods space. Her company, Drawing Out Your Genius™ supports organizations in making meetings more engaging, productive and memorable, simplifying complex topics, mapping out and transmitting new strategies, inspiring staff and customer enthusiasm, and accelerating change through the power of visual and verbal communication. When she’s not helping clients envision a new product feature or messaging campaign, she leads workshops in doodling for better communication, collaboration and creative thinking, and has presented at such events as Adobe 99U, the BackEnd of Innovation conference and Merck Product Manager Day. A native New Yorker, Lisa spent 12 years as a creative director in European ad agencies and speaks fluent French. She is an INIFAC (International Institute of Facilitation) Certified Virtual Facilitator™ and a certified Design Sprint Facilitator. Lisa holds a degree in Semiotics from Brown University. She is based in San Diego, California. drawingoutyourgenius.com

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021, 10:00am – Gil Peretz, Never Zoom Alone – 7 Lessons From Breaking The Record of a 24-Hour Zoom

You think you have Zoom fatigue? On May 5, 2021, Gil Peretz broke the world record for professional Zoom meeting, meeting for 24 hours 30 minutes, and 7 seconds. It was streamed to YouTube and Facebook.

This showed that you CAN beat Zoom fatigue! Many guests joined and many stayed for hours.

Every hour was a different subject such as sales and customer service.

Invited guests and experts jioned from around the world. The last 6 hours was like a talk show.

Instead of Dr. Phil, it was Dr. Gil (he’s not really a doctor but plays one on Zoom)!

My energy after 24 hours was so high, I could meet for another 6 hours!

“You are insane. I love it! I’m joining you for the 24 hours!” -Spain participant

Never Zoom Alone published in Entrepreneur 1/15/2021 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/361656

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021, 11:00am – John Chen – Turn On The Damn Camera Now – How To Create Virtual Psychological Safety

Do your attendees have their camera off?

Do you have the dreaded awkward silence when you ask a question?

Do you wish your attendees would engage more?

Then don’t miss “Turn on the Damn Cameras Now! – The Secrets of Virtual Psychological Safety”

When you register for Turn on the Damn Cameras Now, you will learn the invisible secret that will inspire your attendees to chat in the chat box, raise their hand, answer your questions and turn on their camera. Your virtual courses will be known as the most engaging. They will give YOU rave reviews.

When you complete Turn on the Damn Cameras Now, you will master:

• How to get your attendees to start engaging before your meeting starts

• How to increase your odds that your attendees will engage from the beginning of the meeting

• How to ask questions that attendees want to answer

• How to get even the quietest attendees to chat, share and turn on their camera

• How to get attendees to turn on their cameras without saying a word

• How to get attendees to want to come back again and again to your virtual programs

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021, 12:00pm – Jeff Evans – Magic! And The Magic Behind The Magic!

Like everyone in the event industry, Jeff Evans’ business performing magic abruptly shut down at the beginning of the pandemic. Currently about half of his business comes from virtual performances. Fortunately, magic works very well online, and Jeff will perform part of his amazing and interactive show that he has been creating and fine-tuning the past year-and-half. Then, he'll explain some of the “tricks of the trade” that make your virtual meetings and presentations look and sound better.

Olympia magician Jeff Evans has been “magishing” throughout the Pacific Northwest full-time since 1998. Many Fortune 500 companies call on Jeff to perform for their events: Boeing, Microsoft, Pepsi, and R. E. I. are a few of his repeat clients. He’s won over a dozen awards from his peers in magic including Magician of the Year from the Vancouver Magic Circle, Stage Magic Champion from the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians, and the title Seattle’s Funniest Magician. Find him online at www.amazementproductions.com and on social media @jeffevansmagic. And, see him live in the comfort of your home via the magic of Zoom!

Thursday, October 21st, 2021, 9:00am – Tina Mitchell, Tragedy to Triumph – Using Powerpoint As Background To Save A Life

Tina Mitchell is a highly successful person who achieved success through her drive, facing insurmountable setbacks along the way. Listen to her incredible story of resiliency and overcoming loss without giving into despair. It is impressive how she turned misfortunes into success and giving back. Tina will touch you with her vulnerability and her passion to inspire someone every day of her life.

Tina Mitchell is a time management and business efficiency coach. She has coached hundreds of students on her one-timing philosophy since 2014. Tina has shared her One-Time Your Business™ coaching with leaders, organizations, and businesses worldwide. This proven system helps remove stress in your business by streamlining issues that come up again and again, creating more time to get everything you want out of life!

Tina is also a radio personality and host of The Money Hour on 1150 AM KKNW and Founder and Owner of TM Media Agency. She is a keynote speaker sharing her story of Tragedy to Triumph and the author of Journey With Me.

​Tina’s personal motto is “Live Your Dream Now!”

Thursday, October 21st, 2021, 10:00am – John Chen, I’m Not Producing, You’re Producing – 10 Producer Secrets To Your Next Virtual Meetings To The Next Level

John will get YOU the audience to learn and demonstrate the 10 most requested features for a meeting. From learning how to play music correctly to how to get in front of your slidedeck, YOU become the star!

Features may include:

Play Music

Powerpoint as Virtual Background

Side-by-side: Gallery, Side-by-side: Speaker

Reaction->Emojis and Emojis in Chat

Spotlight, Replace, Add, Remove

Use Arrow to show someone where to click - Review Zoom.us Settings

Share Screen->Advanced, Video

Creating Video Virtual Backgrounds

Immersive View

Share Screen to All Breakout Rooms

Thursday, October 21st, 2021, 11:00am – Tyler Parris, Engaging Virtual Makeover, Work From Home Edition!– How I Went From My Kitchen To The Top 1%

Tyler Parris wrote the book for Chief of Staffs, people who report directly to a CEO to help manage a company. When the pandemic hit, he was zooming from his kitchen. Over the course of 19 months, he elevated his setup to include cameras, professional mic, green screens, music and more.

His Chief of Staffs raved calling his meetings one of the best virtual meetings they have attended and inspiring them to up their game for their companies and executives.

To learn these skills, he volunteered for his scout troop and wow'ed the parents with slo-mo cam for their Pinewood Derby. He helped grow his troop while many other troops disbanded during Coronavirus.

Tyler will share how he did it and how you can to.

Tyler Parris is a Hudson-certified executive and career coach, former corporate chief of staff, and author of Chief of Staff: The Strategic Partner Who Will Revolutionize Your Organization. His career has spanned operations management at Intellectual Ventures, program management at Advaiya, Inc., technical editing at Microsoft, and computer networking in the United States Marine Corps.

After facilitating well-run programs and operations in increasingly complex environments, he earned the thought partnership and counsel of senior leaders on issues affecting their organizations. As chief of staff at the pioneering invention company, Intellectual Ventures, Tyler served as thought partner, program manager, and communication manager for the President and Executive Leadership Team in setting the agenda for the company and achieving annual financial and operating goals.

His current focus is creating coaching interactions with people in chief of staff roles that create capacity, raise awareness, and change behaviors.

Thursday, October 21st, 2021, 12:00pm – Samantha Evans, Creating Accessible and Engaging Virtual Meetings - How Baking Digital Accessibility Into Your Virtual Meetings Optimizes Engagement.

Virtual events offer the ability to engage and inspire without requiring travel or lodging. But digital doesn’t equal accessible for all. Disabled people that use assistive technology may be prevented from engaging. Join us for insights to incorporate digital accessibility to meet your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Learn how to bake digital accessibility into your event strategy recipe for success.

You’ll come away with five key elements to empower you and your events so that everyone can attend, engage, and enjoy.

Samantha (Sam) Evans, CAE, MBA, is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), a division of G3ict, where she works with accessibility subject matter experts and professionals around the world to maintain, build and deliver accessibility certification programs. Working within the international standards for certification and credentialing, Sam facilitates the work of IAAP and the accessibility community to establish benchmarks of knowledge, skills, and concepts for accessibility professionals. Sam is also an active accessibility and inclusion advocate, wirh a passion for accessible digital events. She is active in the association managemenr, event planing, and credentiing professions. Sam holds an MBA in International Business from Kennesaw State University. Sam is a long time member of GSAE & ASAE, and is currently serving on the ASAE CAE Item Writing Committee, EIC Standards for Sustainable Events Committee, and the Institute for Credentialing Excellence DEI Committee.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021, 9:00am – Anthony Metten, Resilience Through Individuation It’s Time To Talk About YOU!

With all the stressors of the past 1 ½ years, resilience is a topic of interest for all.

We are all faced with new behaviors, expectations, regulations, and possibilities that have never before been available or expected.

In this presentation on Resilience through Individuation, we will explore:

• Some of the changes we have all experienced.• We will define resilience.• We will discuss the parts of us that make resilience possible.• We will unpack Individuation:• What it is• Why it occurs• What being individuated looks like• We will explore the connection between resilience and Individuation.• We will expose what resilience WITHOUT Individuation brings us.• We will give you a map to consider where you are on your individuation journey.

In the end, you will receive both a White Paper and a Whiteboard video on Individuation to help you better understand the theory and create your definition of what resilience looks like for you.

Anthony Metten is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), is a Professional Speaker with the National Speakers Association (NSA), a DRPA certified Mediator, and holds an MA in Counseling Psychology/Career Development.

With more than 20 years of experience in the corporate world, reaching the Senior Vice President ranks, and over 10 years experience as a coach and speaker, Anthony engages individuals and audiences personally, connecting in a way that cultivates trust and safety.

“Finding commonality and understanding through shared experiences, and communicating a knowing that can’t be manufactured, is the foundation from which my clients and audiences grow.”

Anthony’s individual client work focuses on insight and individuation, helping clients understand and accept themselves and their aspirations, clearing a path for the client’s determined outcome.

His speaking work emphasizes soft skills, at the core of personal and professional growth. Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and Communication form the basis of the classes Anthony facilitates and speaks on to audiences across the United States (in person and virtually through live webinars).

Friday, October 22nd, 2021, 10:00am – Monica Cornetti, Best Practices for Implementing Gamification for Virtual Meetings – Serious Play

It seems obvious why children like to play games for learning, and for most, learning stopped feeling like play, and being fun, by about third grade.

For the adult learner there are compelling reasons why we gravitate to learning experiences that are fun and playful. The element of fun often helps to reduce what in other circumstances might be perceived as threatening and gives learners the opportunity to experiment with rules, emotions, and social roles. They get to make mistakes, get immediate feedback, and try alternatives.

And here is where gamification enters in. Not just another shiny object, well designed gamification IMPROVES learning outcomes. Unfortunately, many people think that gamification involves coding or making a computer or a video game. Because of this confusion, combined with a lack of real-life case studies of gamification successfully applied to learning programs, most do not understand how to deconstruct games to effectively drive the learning and behavior they want or need.

In this featured session, using case studies from real-life programs, you’ll learn

• how and why gamification works

• in what context gamification is most effective

• the limits to this approach of employee engagement in corporate compliance and training programs

Through hands-on application combined with anecdotal and empirical data, you will experience the good, the bad, and the ugly of gamification strategy design.

Join us in exploring why Gamification is a powerful method to support engagement and skill development in virtual meetings and adult learning programs.

Monica Cornetti works with individuals and organizations who want to learn how to think playfully to achieve uncommon results.

A gamification speaker and designer, Monica was repeatedly rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE from 2015-2020, and this year was recognized as #1 in the Most Influential Women in Gamification who have created a legitimate impact in the gamification industry.

Monica is the President of Sententia, Inc. and leads the company’s education and design projects at Sententia Gamification. She is also the Gamemaster of GamiCon (the annual international conference for the gamification of learning) and Head of Faculty at the Gamification Academy.

She is the author of the books Lipstick Lessons, What Were You Thinking?, Totally Awesome Training Activities Guide: Put Gamification to Work for You, and co-author of Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Application of Game Mechanics to Learning Experiences.

She is a graduate of Seton Hill with a BA in psychology, and The University of Houston-Victoria where she earned a Master’s Degree in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship.

Monica is hired for her skill as a gamification speaker and strategist and is considered at the top of her field in gamification design for corporate training and adult education.

When she is not busy changing learning with gamification, Monica can be found “researching” gameplay with her grandchildren.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021, 11:00am – John Chen, Thinking Cinematically, The Secrets of Creating a Broadcast Studio

Bob Behan, Microsoft VP of Virtual Experiences coined the phrase, "Stop thinking theatrically, start thinking cinematically."

Join John Chen as he shows you the FUTURE of virtual meetings, using green screens, Open Broadcaster Software, Stream Deck and other powerful tools to imagine new ways to create engaging virtual meetings.

During this session you will learn:

• What is video production?
• Why green screens and how to install one correctly?
• What is Open Broadcaster Software and why is it FREE?
• What features of Zoom allow you to create a production studio?
• How to create infinite studios and locations?
• What is a Stream Deck and how does it put everything at your fingertips?
• What is NDI and why you should care?

Friday, October 22nd, 2021, 12:00pm – John Lombardo, Virtual Team Building Through Music – And The Premiere Of The Engaging Virtual Meetings Anthem

With 85% of the world’s leading companies supporting telecommuting [source: Fortune], team building is more important now than ever before. But, getting your teams together for team building experiences is not always feasible or cost effective. Our Remote Team Anthem addresses these challenges by engaging your teams in an interactive songwriting session, all conducted virtually using a secure online meeting platform.

This music-fueled program enables you to convey key messaging and core values to your team members worldwide, live and in the moment, and best of all, together. Each online session is led by the same world-class musicians you’ll find at SongDivision’s live events, who have worked with international stars like Prince, Cher, Drake, Katy Perry and more!

You decide who should attend, send out an invite, and just like that, we’re creating an original song together, online! Once your team is logged in, our musicians run the show, entertaining your people and guiding the group through chord selection and collaborative lyric writing, which centers on your team’s purpose. No musical experience is required.

Lyrical ideas are submitted using the platform’s messaging features and are arranged by our musicians into a final song, which is performed with the group live, on-screen! An .mp3 version of the song is later recorded for you to share with attendees. Or, for an even bigger impact, a full studio version (e.g. full instrumentation, vocals and production) can be recorded for an additional fee.

Unite your teams, remotely, using music!

A vocalist and MC with 30 years in the music industry, John has fronted bands of all genres on three continents. As a talented songwriter, he earned a contract with Warner/Chappel Music and has written with The Smashing Pumpkins and Toad the Wet Sprocket. John has toured with the likes of Soundgarden, Nirvana and the Gin Blossoms and, for the last nine years, he’s been the lead singer of the band “Vegas Limit” that plays at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. During their tenure, they have hosted the B-52s, Kid Rock, No Doubt and members of Cheap Trick and Maroon 5. In addition to his musical background, John possesses a solid understanding of business and has worked with Fortune 500 companies including Dish Network and Microsoft, engaging audiences while helping communicate brand messages and building corporate culture.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2021

8:30am – (OPTIONAL) Log In, Connection Before Content

9:00am – Engaging Virtual Jeopardy – Pop Culture

10:00am – Name That Tune

11:00am – Engaging Virtual Bingo

12:00pm – Engaging Virtual Escape Room – The Paper Son

1:00pm – (OPTIONAL) Consulting After Content

1:30pm – Log Off

7:00pm – Engaging Virtual Karaoke Competition!