The conference season is over, so it’s time for a regularly irregular report and a small evaluation of what I have visited so far this year in terms of e-commerce events. There was a lot of it, so I decided to split this report into two articles – and now the second part has arrived. In the second quarter, I didn’t slow down the pace, on the contrary, I put even more into it, so that I could now enjoy the well-deserved finish. But let’s start from the beginning.
Are you interested in what events will be held? You can find all e-commerce events in one place, on my website E-COMMERCE AKCE. There you can learn more about each of them and at the same time filter them according to what you are looking for. You can also set up a premium access to all events well in advance.
8 events per week in April was not an April Fool’s joke
On April 5th, I started with a work beer for the za5dvanáct project, which I’ve been running for a while together with Daf. After almost a two-week break from conferences, the long-awaited ShopRoku took place, which is the annual awards ceremony by Heureka – Tome, Matěj, Verča, thank you for the invitation! It was a great event full of successful people and e-commerce projects. We networked all evening until the early hours of the morning, this time at Gabriel Loci. Congratulations to all the winners and see you again next year!
On April 17th, CzechCrunch organized another E-commerce event on the topic of How to Improve Your Customer Journey. As always, we were partners of the event with Ecomail. You could listen to insights from Lukáš Havlásek (Notino), Tomáš Haškovec (Spokojenýpes.cz) or Petr Svoboda (Shopsys, Convertim). On April 19th, I returned to Endorfin for another eCommerce BEERS, organized by Daktela. I still stand by the fact that it’s not a nice space for events.
Expansion to Slovakia continues
On April 20th, we went to Slovakia, this time to Shopmasters, which we organized together with the classic Zásilkovna and Shoptet, as well as Expandeco and Heureka. This time, I was quite involved in the content, so the main presentation was given by Dalibor Cicman from GymBEAM and I arranged for Jakub Kantor, Jonáš Čumrik and Radovan Greža to lead the masterminds. The last two mentioned again had the longest mastermind, slightly over 3 hours. And I have to say that our ‘expansion’ to Slovakia is going well.
On Tuesday, April 25th, Testuj.to organized BrandUP, where Tomáš Braverman, of course Eva Čejková, but also Petra Dolejšová spoke. A great afternoon event with interesting content.
On Wednesday, I went to Minutový Networking, which this time took place in Kings, in a beautiful apartment with a great terrace and a view of the castle. I met familiar faces from the e-commerce scene again and another approximately 100 people who came to have fun and network! This week, for the third time, I visited the E-shop Klub by Jirka Roštecký after a while. He invited interesting guests, including Peter Hajduček, who revealed more details about the problems with Footshop and how they solved them, or for example how much they bought Queens for.
This week saw perhaps the most events, a total of 8. And as far as I know, all of them had a very decent attendance!
May was traditionally the time for events
At the beginning of May, I took a break from events and went just for two work beers. But events were held by Holky z Marketingu or Pavel Ungr SEOLoger naživo, which is a weekend, as the name suggests, about SEO with SEO people.
We also selected wines from Vinařství Svobodovi at the Meet & Deal event, which I organize in October! So you have something to look forward to!
On May 9th, I attended a speedmentoring session within the CzechCrunch Startup Academy for my new startup IMBase, which is the largest CZ & SK database of influencers. I have to say that although I had a mentor who was available and helped me throughout the whole run, this was the most beneficial part of the entire run and I would gladly do it again!
Two days later, we organized a Meetup for agencies and partners at Ecomail, to introduce them to the latest news, discuss what might be troubling them with the product, or how we can further customize it to their needs, and of course strengthen relationships…
On May 15th, I had another sales mastermind and I hadn’t rested for a long time, because on May 17th, Reshoper took place, which Shoptet has been owning and organizing for the second year. Ecomail had a two-story stand at the expo and an approximately ten-person team from support, marketing to management, including sales of course. Since we had the expo capacity covered, I went upstairs to the conference, where several acquaintances presented – Ondra Kleg with Martin Bernátek about Ovečkárna, Peter Hajduček about Footshop, but also Milan Polák or Petra Nulíčková. At the conference, there was no one who hadn’t seen the E-commerce Calendar at least once, because I really made sure it was everywhere… 😜
This was followed by almost 2 weeks of a break, which I ended at the Ecomail Stars Party, which we organize annually together with promoGEN, for clients and e-commerce friends. About 80 people gathered in our offices, there was a panel discussion on business, great drinks, catering and a photo booth – well, you can judge the photos yourself… Our marketing team raises the bar for this event every year. What will be next? I can’t wait!
Then I flew to Tunisia for a week to rest and clear my head, which didn’t really work out, but that’s life… I thought for a moment that mít dýl wouldn’t happen… But it will! It’s true that I didn’t choose the ideal time for a vacation, because on Wednesday the first announcement of the E-commerce Personality of the Year took place, which was decided by the Exec magazine together with an expert jury! I would normally not have missed this event, but it happened, so at least I send my congratulations online to the winners Tomáš Braverman, Václav Staněk and Zbyněk Kocián.
The June finish
After another 14 days without an event, I went to the Konferenční Centrum City, which also doesn’t seem to me like an ideal place for conferences, but so be it… The Send Summit took place here, which is actually a competitor to the E-mail Restart, or not? 😜 A content-intensive event with a few interesting people for networking ended with networking in the program, as is often the case – that’s why Mít&Deal will be!
That day there was also another eCommerce BEERS, this time outside of Prague in Ostrava. It’s one of those where I’m sorry I couldn’t be there, because it was said to be a great event put together by Shopsys with Alena, Marek and Patrik!
On Monday, June 19th, I went to one of the last events before the summer: a CzechCrunch special “Through the Eyes of the Successful”, where Erika Eliášová, Tomáš Havryluk, but also Petr Bena shared their experiences, which Peter Brejčák drew out of them. Unfortunately, I missed the NEkonference and the AI Restart. 😞 But I did attend the Red Face event, where unfortunately the audience realized how well the Clash of Stars was organized… Well, hopefully it won’t be like that again.
And finally we come to June 27th, which was the day I had been waiting for 4 months – the Completion of the #4 run of the StartUp Academy from CzechCrunch, which I wanted to win. Although I didn’t manage to do that, it still convinced me enough that IMBase will be a great startup that will shake up the influencer marketing scene in the CZ and SK e-commerce scene! Want to know more? Write to me!
At the beginning of July, I also visited KVIFF and I really don’t understand what you all have with it?!
Am I really at every event?
And that’s all for now! Now you won’t see me networking for 2 months, but in early September we’ll definitely see each other at Shopcamp and on October 5, 2023 we’ll meet at the Opera at Meet&Deal. Tickets are still available, but hurry up, there aren’t many.
Personally, I attended 31 events over about 160 days and a total of (at least according to my E-commerce Calendar) nearly 100 events took place. So please stop telling me that I’m at every one! Thank you. 😅
