Venture Project Two – Spring Quarter 2020
Team: All E3 Students in the Program
This project was a challenging one. Our team was asked to host and plan an event that would bring together successful entrepreneurs and those currently learning about entrepreneurship. That in itself wasn’t a huge challenge, instead, the challenge was doing all of this during a global pandemic! Hosting an online event seemed to be the only solution to the issue of the pandemic. This is when Creators Collide finally began! It would be an event set up like a festival. There would be many sessions you could attend, all of which had differing entrepreneurs (such as musicians, artists, and local business owners). The whole event stayed on two platforms – zoom and discord.
The first thing we did was separate into smaller groups in order to organize the work. I decided that I’d work best in the outreach team and my partner was Schantell (she was a great person to work with). Our focus for the project was to find local/global entrepreneurs to present at our online event. There were three other team members in the outreach group; Tori, Evarosa, and Alyssa. They were focused more on local artists and did a great job finding live music for the event.
Day of the event had a slight hiccup at the start because WWU changed something in our Zoom settings which blocked our users from entering the rooms. This was fixed within an hour and the rest of the two-day event went relatively smoothly. There were some more troubles when we switched to using discord and the music’s sound quality was having some issues. The second day of the event did not have nearly as many viewers which was upsetting to us all.
I learned so much from this project! Most of what I experienced was how to work with a big team on a challenging event. The most difficult part was making sure we were all on the same page and knew our responsibilities. If we weren’t all sure of our end goal then a lot of storming occurred. Storming via zoom is a very hard task. Luckily we were able to find a shared goal (with the help of our mentors and teachers) and our event was a success!