ABOUT PARK PEOPLE
Park People supports and mobilizes community park groups, community organizers, non-profits, park professionals and funders who activate the power of parks.
Through Canada-wide and city-specific programs and events, funding, resources, research and professional services, they help realize the power of parks to build strong communities, healthy environments, and resilient cities.
ABOUT THE EVENT
For the first time ever, The Park People Conference was brought to life as a virtual experience: three days full of insightful, inspiring, and powerful content with 90+ speakers across 30+ dynamic sessions.
Attendees were able to engage with park professionals, community park group leaders, non-profit organizations, and municipal staff to explore the many opportunities and obstacles in building an abundant future for Canadian city parks.
The event featured fully bilingual capabilities with simultaneous interpretation for selected sessions, interactive workshops, and ample networking opportunities for attendees to chat with speakers and each other.
WEBSITE: https://parkpeople.ca/conference/
About Loopio
Loopio’s mission is to help ambitious companies and people grow. Every company is filled with knowledgeable people who can help their organizations reach their full potential. But this expertise is difficult to tap into every time it’s needed in the sales cycle—whether that’s for an RFP, Security Questionnaire, DDQ, or a question on a sales call. The Loopio RFP response platform makes harnessing intelligence from every corner of an organization possible at scale. With Loopio, every request for information becomes an opportunity to grow—instead of a blocker to it.
About the Event
Event: Loopicon 2022
Date: September 14-15, 2022
Venue: Virtual
Website: https://loopicon.com
Loopicon is a ground-breaking, educational conference for ambitious proposal and sales professionals who want to accelerate their company’s growth and advance their careers. Every year, Loopicon brings the best and brightest in the response industry together to share innovative ideas, network with peers, and propel the proposal management profession forward.
Loopicon was filled to the brim with valuable content over two days, all brought together through a dynamic and modern virtual environment. Memorable keynote speakers included the incredible Riaz Meghji, who shared his insights on the importance of connection.
The event combined live and pre-recorded content, as well as fun social elements such as the industry’s biggest game of RFP trivia and a virtual magic show from captivating celebrity magician, Johnny Wu.
The LOMA team was tasked with overall project management, as well as overseeing the selection and execution of the virtual conference platform, speaker sourcing and end-to-end management, social activities, and post-event feedback and reconciliation. We worked collaboratively with the Loopio project team using their existing project management technology to ensure a smooth execution and successful event.
About Nudge
Nudge is a digital communications platform that aims to improve productivity for organizations with a deskless workforce. From retail to food service, Nudge provides a way for employees that don’t sit in front of a computer all day to receive important and timely communications right to their phones. Gone are the days of bulletin boards and 3-ring binders to keep employees in the know, as Nudge allows frontline and deskless workers to have real-time access to tools, knowledge, and support to do great work every day.
About the Event
Website: https://nudge.co/deskless/
DESKLESS is a new community where organizational leaders of deskless and frontline employees can come together and talk about the ideas, concerns, and trends shaping their industries. The inaugural event series, Spark Sessions, offered deskless executives a chance to network and gain expert insight from industry leaders on setting up their workforces for success.
Each 2-hour Spark Session was split between education and entertainment with the goal for each event being to complement thought leadership with a fun and interactive activity. The LOMA team helped select and build a virtual environment and source unique engagement opportunities to help connect audiences and reinforce messaging from Nudge’s network of industry experts.
Beginning with a tea and chocolate tasting from Monarch Tea Co., Spilling the tea with deskless trailblazers saw CVS Health CMO Norman De Greve and Tony Weisman, the Advisor and former CMO of Dunkin’ sit down with CEO of Nudge, Lindsey Goodchild to discuss the current challenges facing frontline workforces.
The second session aimed to evaluate The ingredients of a high-performing deskless workforce with a cooking demo from the Food Network’s own Tanya Holland, and a powerhouse panel featuring Sarah Jordan, CEO of Mastermind Toys, and Rachel Huckle, Chief Retail Officer of Staples Canada. The two joined Nudge’s Lindsey Goodchild to divulge their key considerations in curating a high-performing workforce.
The sessions wrapped up with the release of Nudge’s The Deskless Report, analyzing survey responses from deskless workers and leaders in 2021 to assess the current state of the deskless workforce, sentiments then echoed in a custom improv show by The Second City. Futurist Andrew Au shared his thoughts on the findings, as we consider being Unscripted, not unprepared: what 2022 looks like for the frontline.
Want to know more about how the LOMA team helped to create and elevate this event series? Read more about Nudge’s Spark Sessions on our blog – coming soon!
About Spare
Spare’s mission is to unlock the potential of mobility for everyone. Their vision for the future of transportation includes multi-modal mobility, public/private cooperation, profitable transportation enabled by technology innovation, and the widespread use of on-demand shared transportation.
About the Event
Spare Moves 2021, Spare’s inaugural summit, was a hugely successful virtual event that aimed to break from the norms of typical transportation conferences by providing innovative ideas, inspirational panel discussions, and real solutions to problems with actionable insights. Another key focus was creating ample opportunities for peer-to-peer engagement between transit providers, service planners, mobility entrepreneurs, and tech experts.
Featuring a mix of keynote presentations, panel discussions, focused networking, and a little bit of trivia fun, attendees were exposed to discussions spanning a variety of industry challenges and opportunities. Key subject matter included driver shortages, keeping costs low, attracting riders, and managing change.
The LOMA team was brought in to support overall project management, as well as program design, virtual event production, speaker enablement and training, networking, and post-event feedback. We worked collaboratively with the Spare project team using their existing technology solutions to execute a seamless, professional, and memorable event.
LOMAPALOOZA was born during the start of the Pandemic in 2020 with the goal of making the most of what became the new normal. It was about feeling good and doing good from home. This year, we chose to host a holiday version with fun interactive sessions that would get everyone in the festive spirit.
LOMAPALOOZA 2021
Bingo. Boards. Beats.
We at LOMA Agency were happy to host the 2nd annual LOMAPALOOZA on December 2.
The virtual experience kicked off with Drag Queen Bingo. Joining us with a red sparkly background, candy cane patterned dress, and Christmas music was Joy S. from The Screaming Queens. Joy really brought…the JOY throwing in punny jokes, performances and hosting a few exciting rounds of B.I.N.G.O!
No doctors were involved in this second experience where the lovely Sophia Cong from The Graze Anatomy hosted our Boards session. Here the audience had the opportunity to learn all about creating the perfect grazing charcuterie board and could follow along with a grocery list provided prior to the event. Sophia shared tips and tricks like how to create the perfect salami rose and answered many burning questions from the audience.
Last but not least, with a voice reminiscent of Billie Holiday and rap verses comparable to Lauryn Hill, the talented Butterscotch delighted us with her beautiful voice, on the spot rap beats using her loop station and piano. She performed her own songs and even wowed the group when she created a custom track about racoons aka trash pandas based on the audience chat.
LOMAPALOOZA was created with a for the people mindset. The last two years have been a challenge for everyone, and we at LOMA along with our supportive community were honored to be able to raise $1,943 to support the World Federation for Mental Health.
The Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) supports world-class Canadian health care by raising funds to advance nursing knowledge and research, and by recognizing professional merit in Canada’s nurses. We invest in nursing excellence for better patient care.
CNF 2021 MASKERAIDE GALA
For the second year in a row, The Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) took their fundraising gala virtual to celebrate nurses across Canada and raise more than $225,000 to advance nursing knowledge and research.
The 2021 Maskeraide focused on generating awareness around five key areas: Immunization, Nursing Shortages, Mental Health, Seniors Care, and Indigenous Health.
Hosted by ETALKs Traci Melchor, the event that took place on October 28th was able to embrace all Canadians from coast to coast to coast, featuring performers including Naoya Ebe from The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto’s singer-songwriter Domanique Grant, Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark, Yukon’s Bhangra dancer Gurdeep Pandher, and East Coast cover band Second Toe.
The program also included messages from Prime Minister Trudeau, William Shatner, Chris Hadfield, Lainey Lui & Jessica Allen from The Social and a special award presentation to Michael Bublé.
The evening started with the VIP Canapés with Crawford – an exclusive pre-show cooking experience with Chef Lynn Crawford and wine pairing with Head Winemaker Adam Pearce from Two Sisters Vineyards.
During the program we spotlighted #ThankANurse nominees who were part of a larger nomination campaign that saw over 400+ nurses nominated this year.
Attendees were also able to enjoy a virtual photobooth, video networking tables and had the opportunity to bid on exciting auction items to raise money for the nursing community.
About Loopio
Loopio’s mission is to help ambitious companies and people grow. Every company is filled with knowledgeable people who can help their organizations reach their full potential. But this expertise is difficult to tap into every time it’s needed in the sales cycle—whether that’s for an RFP, Security Questionnaire, DDQ, or a question on a sales call. The Loopio RFP response platform makes harnessing intelligence from every corner of an organization possible at scale. With Loopio, every request for information becomes an opportunity to grow—instead of a blocker to it.
About the Event
Event: Loopicon 2021
Date: September 28-29, 2021
Venue: Virtual
Website: https://loopicon.com
Loopicon is a ground-breaking, educational conference for ambitious proposal and sales professionals who want to accelerate their company’s growth and advance their careers. Every year, Loopicon brings the best and brightest in the response industry together to share innovative ideas, network with peers, and propel the proposal management profession forward.
Featuring more than 55 speakers and 25+ sessions over two days, Loopicon was filled to the brim with valuable content and interactive networking opportunities, all brought together through a dynamic and modern virtual environment. Memorable keynote speakers included the happiness expert himself, Neil Pasricha, and digital body language expert Erica Dhawan, whose subject matter could not be more relevant in our virtually connected world.
The event combined live and pre-recorded content, as well as fun social elements such as a live Petworking Lounge, an intimate workshop on how to brew the perfect cup of coffee, and a hilarious custom-written improv comedy show from the iconic The Second City.
The LOMA team was tasked with overall project management, as well as overseeing the selection and execution of the virtual conference platform, speaker sourcing and end-to-end management, social activities, and post-event feedback and reconciliation. We worked collaboratively with the Loopio project team using their existing project management technology to ensure a smooth execution and successful event.
The Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces® Awards gala is a much-anticipated annual event, typically attended in person by the companies who are named leaders in the areas of employee engagement. Scored in eight strategic areas, or elements, winning organizations show demonstrated commitment to improving the working lives of their teams across North America and beyond.
After over ten years of hosting the event in-person, Achievers hosted this year’s gala virtually to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the winners while still having the opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments.
It was critical to ensure that there was a celebratory, interactive, and fun atmosphere that made honorees feel truly highlighted. And while going virtual poses its own challenges, it also allowed a record number of attendees to participate, as organizations were able to extend the invitation to their broader teams.
To get the excitement going before the big day, the first 150 registrants received a custom branded celebration kit, full of delicious treats from various premium Toronto-based vendors, and a branded selfie light to ‘get their glam on’ in the gala’s virtual photo booth.
Hosted by the incredible Arisa Cox, host and executive producer of Big Brother Canada, the event program featured pre-recorded acceptance speeches from all the winners, who were asked different specific questions about their engagement initiatives to comprise a variety of segments throughout the show. Guests also enjoyed hilariously fast-paced interactive trivia games with Adam Growe, host of the hit TV game show Cash Cab Canada. They were able to play along with onscreen volunteers using their mobile phones for a chance to win prizes throughout the evening.
The end result was an evening of meaningful recognition, focused on the inspiring work of the winning organizations and, of course, having lots of fun in the process!
The Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) supports world-class Canadian health care by raising funds to advance nursing knowledge and research, and by recognizing professional merit in Canada’s nurses. By investing in nursing education, research and training today, we can be prepared to face the health care challenges of tomorrow.
2020 CNF NIGHTINGALE MASKERAIDE – A VIRTUAL CELEBRATION OF NURSES
The 2020 Nightingale MaskerAide marked the first time CNF took its annual fundraising gala virtual – creating a national stage to shine a spotlight on the nursing community across Canada. For this 10th anniversary gala year, CNF raised just over $100,000 in support of nurses with a portion of proceeds going towards the Canadian Nurses Foundation COVID-19 Fund. Over 600 guests nationwide came together virtually to thank and celebrate nurses for their tireless efforts on the front lines and providing aid during this crucial time.
The evening featured a special live performance by award-winning and chart-topping Canadian singer-songwriter Serena Ryder and performances by America’s Got Talent Season 15 Golden Buzzer Winner Roberta Battaglia, and TikTok star Notorious Cree. There were also special messages from dignitaries and celebrities across Canada including the Honorable Patty Hadju, Hayley Wickenheiser, Lisa Laflamme and Rick Mercer to name a few.
As part of the event’s successful #ThankANurse social media initiative, nearly 150 nurses from around the country were nominated by their peers for going above and beyond, 80 of whom attended the event. A few of these nurses were also invited to share their stories live during the program, a highlight of the night for many attendees.
The evening also featured a virtual photobooth experience, sponsor lounge and an opportunity for guests to bid on an array of auction items through a silent auction platform before, during and after the event.
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