The state of safety trade shows & looking forward to Safety, Health & Wellbeing Live, with Tim Else

Today's Guest Tim Else is the Founder and Managing Director of What Else Events where he brings 20 years of trade show expertise to deliver B2B exhibitions and conferences in some of the UK's best regional venues. Currently, he has two upcoming Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live shows where there is access to educational content and the opportunity to meet market-leading suppliers and manufacturers of a range of safety equipment and services. Tim joins us today, to talk about the importance of in-person tradeshows, the issues with virtual events, and how tradeshows have changed due to the pandemic. We also discuss his upcoming Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live conference, the topics they're focusing on at the event, and the trend towards including holistic wellbeing in health and safety. Tim's LinkedIn is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyelse/ You'll learn ✅ The importance of trade shows in operational safety and health. ✅ How the pandemic affected tradeshows. ✅ The issues with virtual events. ✅ The themes the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live conference addresses. ✅ The trend towards including holistic wellbeing in health and safety. Resources Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live: https://www.safetyhealthwellbeing.live/ In this episode, we talk about: [02:57] Why trade shows are so important. [04:50] The difficulties trade shows had due to the pandemic. [07:30] How trade shows have changed coming out of the pandemic. [10:20] Why in-person events are more impactful than digital ones. [12:54] Why Tim has included Wellbeing in his Safety and Health event. [17:07] Why safety and health trade shows need to be delivered locally. [20:06] The advisory council Tim's put together to assist with the content of the trade show. [24:45] The different partnerships at the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live conference. [27:20] How safety needs differ depending on where in the country you are. [28:55] The topics they are focusing on at this year's Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live conference. [31:28] Networking events Tim is doing with IOSH members. [34:31] How to register for the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Live conference. We'd love to hear your views and comments about The Safety and Risk Success Podcast, here's how: ✅ Share The Safety and Risk Success Podcast on LinkedIn, Twitter or your social media platform of choice ✅ Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and we read each one. Subscribe to keep up-to-date with our latest episodes: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-safety-and-risk-success-podcast/id1521150061 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7IlSdTgQVfY0CZlnV7ejtf Connect with Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-harris-slip-safety/ Quotables 03:56 - "Nothing replaces the value of connection." 08:00 - "Whether that trade show brought 2,000, 3,000, 10,000 people is not the relevant point. What's relevant is did you meet the right people, did you engage in a way that moved your business forward, and were you able to develop your sales pipeline from it, and I think a lot of people have remembered that actually trade shows are a completely unique way of doing that." #safety #insurance #riskmanagement #podcast