{"id":57183,"date":"2020-07-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2682563"},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:00:00","slug":"talking-virtual-events-and-disrupt-with-hopin-founder-johnny-boufarhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/30\/talking-virtual-events-and-disrupt-with-hopin-founder-johnny-boufarhat\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking virtual events and Disrupt with Hopin founder Johnny Boufarhat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Disrupt-2020-Illustration.png?w=730&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Disrupt 2020 Illustration\" width=\"657\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_knh3GRTwQcmJVTN5f8X5Hw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register now<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;to attend the event on&nbsp;<strong>8\/6 at 10 a.m. PDT<\/strong>. Registered attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions via Slido.<\/p>\n<p>Next in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/07\/16\/techcrunch-talks-virtual-events-and-event-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of talks<\/a>&nbsp;with virtual event masterminds, we&rsquo;ll be meeting with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/johnny-boufarhat#section-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnny Boufarhat<\/a>, founder of virtual events platform, Hopin, about the virtual venue we&rsquo;re developing together for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/events\/disrupt-sf-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disrupt<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hopin.to\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hopin<\/a>&nbsp;was founded in 2007 with the aim to help organizers recreate the in-person event experience virtually. So far, it&rsquo;s hosted events with partners including the U.N. and Dell. In June of this year, Hopin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/06\/25\/hopin-raises-40m-series-a-as-its-virtual-events-business-accelerates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that it had raised a $40 million Series A led by IVP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-inline-promo\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>In our discussion with Johnny, we will cover topics including: how COVID-19 has accelerated the demand for virtual events, his perspective on virtual venues, the Disrupt virtual venue, the attendee experience, the partner experience, how sponsors can leverage the event and what the future of events might look like. If you&rsquo;re interested in attending, becoming a sponsor or learning more about Disrupt, this is for you.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_knh3GRTwQcmJVTN5f8X5Hw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Register now!<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<h1>Next up:<\/h1>\n<h2>7\/30 at 10 a.m. PDT: Grip CEO, co-founder Tim Groot on Virtual Event networking<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to our talk with Johnny next week, we&rsquo;re hosting a session today at 10 a.m. PDT with Tim Groot, the founder of the AI- driven event networking solution, Grip, that we will use to power Disrupt (<a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_1U7SrgXOSDaLK3FoXm4W8w\">register here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>8\/13 at 10 a.m. PDT: Slido CEO, co-founder Peter Komorn&iacute;k<\/h2>\n<p>Join us for a conversation with the founder of Slido, the company we will use to power engagement at Disrupt. More on this soon!<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_knh3GRTwQcmJVTN5f8X5Hw\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_knh3GRTwQcmJVTN5f8X5Hw<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Joey Hinson<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Joey Hinson<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" alt=\"\">Register now&nbsp;to attend the event on&nbsp;8\/6 at 10 a.m. PDT. Registered attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions via Slido. Next in our&nbsp;series of talks&nbsp;with virtual event masterminds, we&rsquo;ll be meeting with&nbsp;Johnny Boufarhat, founder of virtual events platform, Hopin, about the virtual venue we&rsquo;re developing together for&nbsp;Disrupt.&nbsp; Hopin&nbsp;was founded in 2007 with the aim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/30\/talking-virtual-events-and-disrupt-with-hopin-founder-johnny-boufarhat\/\">Continue reading <span>Talking virtual events and Disrupt with Hopin founder Johnny Boufarhat<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/30\/talking-virtual-events-and-disrupt-with-hopin-founder-johnny-boufarhat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Talking virtual events and Disrupt with Hopin founder Johnny Boufarhat - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/30\/talking-virtual-events-and-disrupt-with-hopin-founder-johnny-boufarhat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Talking virtual events and Disrupt with Hopin founder Johnny Boufarhat - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Register now&nbsp;to attend the event on&nbsp;8\/6 at 10 a.m. PDT. 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