Backstage Talks

2 AMAZING LECTURES, 3 PANEL DISCUSSIONS, dinner, drinks, NETWORKING and a whole lotta precious experience and useful info you can get in this unique chance to exchange ideas, learn and connect with other mad men and women trying to make it in the crazy world of dance event organising industry.

Backstage Talks are here in their second edition! And they're bigger and better! The recipe is very similar to the last year's edition - a lot of talking, exchanging ideas, professional advice, practical examples and some great tips on how you can make a step towards organising a successful dance event. And of course, to conclude the whole story, a delicious dinner with all of the participants where you will be able to meet interesting people from the industry, do some networking and ask some additional questions if there will be any unanswered left.

We have chosen a range of specialists from the industry with a wide spectrum of experiences gathered by organizing all kinds of dance festivals and holidays. Confronted with very diverse problems and challenges, they have all their own perspectives and innumerable tips and tricks up their sleeves ready to share with all of you.

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WHERE, WHEN, WHAT & HOW?

Time: Wednesday, 29th June, from 16:00 - 22:30
Place: Hotel Park, Rovinj, Croatia; TV hall next to the pool and dinner terrace
Price: 50 eur (70 eur on spot)
Number of attendees is limited to 45 persons.

SPEAKERS

Franco Sparfeld (Berlin Salsa Congress)
Robert White (MamboCity, MotionCity, London Like, Zouk Fest, dance holidays..)

PANELISTS

Franco Sparfeld (Berlin Salsa Congress)
Chris Dissanayake (Dubai International Dance Festival)
Robert White (MamboCity)
Vladimir Semenčić (Croatian Summer Salsa Festival)
Nemanja Sonero (Tallinn Salsa Festival)

SCHEDULE

16:00 - 16:50 BACKSTAGE HOT TOPIC 1 - The highs and lows of running a dance congress

The atmosphere of being immersed in a crowd of people who share the same passion as you can be quite exhilarating but every successful organizer must face setback at some point, it is how you deal / recover from them, that ensures you go on to run a successful event, in order to achieve this there are a set of skill required. Which skills do you need and what do you have to understand to be able to make a successful dance event?
speaker: Robert White (MamboCity)

17:00 - 17:50 BACKSTAGE HOT TOPIC 2 - Customer support - necessity or opportunity?

One of the basic characteristics of the event industry is that it sells experience to its customers. And one of the factors determining whether this experience will be good or not is customer service from the moment a potential customer shows interest in buying it. Is really customer support that important? What does it include? What's a happy customer and in the end, what's good customer support? Is good customer support also sales?

speaker: Franco Sparfeld (Berlin Salsa Congress)

18:10 - 20:00 PANEL DISCUSSIONS

PANEL 1 - The future of Afro-Latin events
- Our panelists will play prophets in this first and opening topic on the panel and will bring us their vision of a typical Afro-Latin event 3-5 years from now. Is its basic concept the same as it is now or will anything change? Who are the trend-setters within this community? What kind of trends can we expect? What have we learned from the past? Where are we going? Sounds fun?!
PANEL 2 - The importance of artist line-up for festival success
- We'll address sometimes fun but most of the times critical part of the event set up - choosing the right line-up for our event. How important it is to have top artists at a festival? What do artists bring to a festival? What do we or what can be expected from them and at which prices? These are just some of the questions we will try to get answers from ultimately helping us make better decisions in the future.
PANEL 3 - The biggest challenges while creating a dance festival
- This topic will try to bring to surface and pin point the biggest challenges today organizers face in event preparation, during the event and after the event. Each panelist will share with the audience its own personal view on the subject helping us to understand the obstacles we face in creating great dance events.