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Event Tech Podcast

Event Tech Podcast

By: Brandt Krueger
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  • Real-Time AI Summaries for Events with Voxo: Will’s New Adventure!
    Jun 22 2025

    Episode Summary:
    This episode of the Event Tech Podcast brings listeners up to speed on Will Curran’s latest role at Voxo, a Swedish company shaking up event technology with real-time AI session summaries. Brandt Krueger and Will explore how Voxo’s platform captures, analyzes, and packages event content into instantly branded reports, LinkedIn-ready carousels, and live displays. The conversation covers the technical magic behind speaker identification, the marketing potential of AI-generated assets, and the future of personalized attendee experiences.

    Discussions Include:

    • Will Curran’s joining Voxo and the company’s mission in event tech
    • How Voxo uses AI to generate instant, branded session summaries and reports
    • The technical process of capturing audio, identifying speakers, and producing content assets
    • The future of personalized event reports and AI-driven attendee recommendations

    Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

    "I just started up a new gig at Voxo, which is the Swedish company... If you were at Event Tech Live London, you will definitely recognize the

    "At the base level, essentially, we're summarizing every session... capturing all the audio... and in real time, we're creating these reports and transcriptions and all that fun stuff, and then branding it." - Will Curran

    "The thing that blew my mind the most about it is... you walk off stage, man, you as speaker walk off stage instantly, you have this PDF report, available to you as an audience." - Will Curran

    "One of the most powerful things about this AI report that gets generated is... and it also comes in a LinkedIn version... a one-by-one carousel because we all been there ... We get done with a session and we're like lucky if we remember to take a selfie!" - Will Curran

    "We not have the ability to completely remember everything that happened at an event? ... There's no reason why that can't be offloaded somewhere else." - Brandt Krueger

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    31 mins
  • Judging the 2025 Eventex Awards - EventTech Trends
    May 20 2025

    Episode Summary:

    Brandt Krueger and Will Curran return with a lively breakdown of the latest trends spotted while judging the Eventex Awards, offering a behind-the-scenes look (within NDA limits) at where event technology is headed. From lightning-fast badge pickup and GDPR-compliant facial recognition to hyper-personalized attendee journeys and the resurgence of event bots, this episode unpacks the innovations shaping conferences, registration, AI, and event apps. The conversation also explores the tension between niche solutions and global platforms, the creative uses of Generative AI, and the growing importance of deep integrations between proprietary tools and third-party event apps.

    Since recording, the winners of the Global Eventex Awards have been announced, so be sure to check out the winners!
    https://eventex.com/winners2025

    Discussions Include:

    • How AI is transforming attendee journeys, reporting, and real-time event analytics
    • The rise of hyper-personalized registration flows and niche event tech providers
    • Creative uses of generative AI for art installations and next-gen word clouds
    • The return of event chatbots and the push for deeper, more meaningful event app integrations

    Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

    “Speed, right? That was one of the things- it was all about how quickly can we get thousands of people registered, get them their badges and things like that.” – Brandt Krueger

    “Most of these high-end registration platforms have the ability to really customize the journeys that your attendees will take. We’re used to having a few different buckets for attendees… Well, now you can have 50 buckets.” – Brandt Krueger

    “Let’s be honest, no one in planning space wants to learn to be a data analyst. That was the thing that I looked at for so long, especially when we were doing Klik and like there’s so much data available to planners who just don’t want to look at data.” – Will Curran

    “I just couldn’t believe that finally, two years into this AI blooming that we’re seeing, we’re finally getting back to having good, decent event bots that can help us out with these things.” – Brandt Krueger

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    45 mins
  • Image-Generating AI Updates
    Apr 22 2025

    Episode Summary:

    This week on the Event Tech Podcast, Brandt Krueger and Will Curran unpack the latest leaps in AI-powered image generation, focusing on new capabilities within ChatGPT and Midjourney. From photorealistic hands and seamless text rendering to transparent backgrounds and continuity across images, the conversation explores how these advancements are transforming event production, branding, and creative workflows. The hosts also touch on the evolving landscape of video generation tools and share a few candid lessons learned from the trenches of AI experimentation, including an apology to Perplexity.

    Discussions Include:

    • The evolution of AI image generation: photorealism, hands and body parts finally look right
    • Continuity and consistency: generating series of images with persistent elements and styles
    • Text and logo integration: AI’s newfound ability to handle crisp, accurate signage and branding
    • Transparent backgrounds and practical applications for event production and design
    • Midjourney’s new draft mode, voice prompting, and the speed gap in creative iteration
    • Reflections on the future of video AI and lessons learned from using AI tools in real-world projects

    Quotable Quotes (Should you choose to share):

    "I have some of the worst short-term memory of all time and all I can do is blame the 90s." - Brandt Krueger

    "This ability to do continuity between images makes me feel like this is going to be great for brands who are like, I need to make the announcement image for my event...and now I need to say that I'm announcing that Seth Rogen is going to be the keynote speaker." - Will Curran

    "It's a very talented intern. Or I think somebody once described it as like your cousin-in-law's nephew who you've been using to do graphics design and maybe does a little too many drugs." - Brandt Krueger

    "I continue to be really excited by where these things are going. All that video is- is a thousand pictures. So we're going to get there really soon." - Brandt Krueger

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    52 mins
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