It was a whirlwind and dynamic week at EVOLVE 2019 for the team at The Event Ecosystem beginning with an informative and eye opening keynote speech on the Third Industrial Age from founder Harris Meitanis on Monday, to a visit from A.C.T.A ambassador and ARIA award winning musician, Megan Washington (who was across the road penning her Opus for Opera Queensland) and on Tuesday night, a stunning win — The Event Ecosystem won the National Award for Innovation in Events for their groundbreaking platform, A.C.T.A.

This after taking down the NSW State Award for Innovation last month! Phew!

Three epic days for the events and entertainment industry culminated in an amazing gala dinner in the ballroom of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center, held to recognise the country’s best and fairest. With 1000 event professionals in attendance, awards were dished out in categories from Best Corporate Event of the Year to Best Audio Visual Achievement and Government Event of the Year.

The national MEA Award for Innovation is a welcome boost of industry recognition for The Event Ecosystem’s vision in adopting peer-to-peer technology within the Events and Entertainment industries. However, it’s the unique technology that A.C.T.A and G.E.T are built on that makes The Event Ecosystem’s platforms truly special.

They are the first booking platforms to adopt frontline blockchain technology, ensuring security and transparency for all parties and allowing clients and suppliers direct communication, contracting and payment facilities. This is coupled with a patented CMS designed specifically to deliver the artist/service in a professional capacity. The platforms totally eliminate the need for middle men and hold no funds in escrow, ultimately culminating in the world’s first P2P talent bookings platforms which work autonomously and FOC on behalf of the artists.

Whilst A.C.T.A services celebrities and media personalities, G.E.T is home to all categories of performance talent including cover bands, DJs, speakers, magicians, circus acts and more.

Since launching G.E.T on February 19 at AIME 2019, the platform has welcomed over 800 new talent members, from musicians and DJs, to magicians and clowns.

A.C.T.A has recently welcomed over 50 new celebrities, including Hamish and Andy, Adam Goodes, Craig Johnston, Tom Thumb, Jordan Raskopoulos, Fiona O’Loughlin, Fifi Box and Carrie Bickmore. These top Australian celebrities join existing household celebrity talent from music and comedy to sports and film, who have already shown support that include Paul McDermott, Megan Washington, Sophie Monk, Olympic champion Michael Klim and UFC Middleweight Champ Robert Whittaker — all embracing the innovation.

"There’s no greater accolade, than one bestowed upon you by your colleagues and by those who your work is designed to serve,” Meitanis stated on stage, accepting the award on behalf of the 20+ staff and Advisory Board. “The Event Ecosystem’s platforms were built specifically for an industry we’re extremely passionate about, and to receive this award, as well as the NSW State Award and continuous plaudits and adoption by our peers justifies to me personally that I wasn’t crazy after all - people are actually excited to embrace the future.”

On Monday, day 1 at EVOLVE 2019, Harris spoke to delegates about the Third Industrial Revolution, aka The Information Age which, for over 40 years now has called for the embrace of frictionless sharing of information — the bedrock on which the digital age rests.

“We have too long been subject to slow, tangled processes and some unscrupulous behaviour,” says Meitanis. “Freedom and control of information is the defining characteristic of this The Information Age and we have a duty to our beloved industries, to keep innovating and evolving processes so that all parties are able to work safer, easier and freely in order to create incredible and memorable  events.”

Throughout the conference, T.EE.’s booth was alive with event industry professionals chatting with T.E.E’s senior project managers Michael Westerway and Laura Chung as well  Marketing and Relationships Director, Joel Cangy.

When Megan Washington popped by to say G’day, talk quickly moved to her explaining the importance of the A.C.T.A and G.E.T platforms for both celebrity artists and talent.

“For an artist, the sharing of performance and logistical documentation in a quick and safe manner is crucial to achieving the very best performance,” Washington says. “Knowing that this information is being handled and stored safely by these platforms is new and refreshing, which is crucial to feeling safe as an artist.”

"The Event Ecosystem wouldn’t exist without the support of both clients and talent, who are eager for its success,” said Meitanis. “It was lovely for our A.C.T.A ambassador, Megan Washington, to take some time away from her Opera Queensland duties to meet with delegates and explain how the content management system really helps both clients and talent improving the way we all work in procuring, delivering and managing talent for events."
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***Date Published** - 3rd April 2019*

***Source** - https://www.eventconnect.com/pressreleases.aspx?pr=2008*

**Associated Celebrity Talent Application (A.C.T.A) and Global Event Talent (G.E.T) were the Beta platforms that have now been combined to comprise the newly revamped 'acta'.*

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Australian built Associated Celebrity Talent App (A.C.T.A.), which officially launched last November, has justified the buzz around it.

A.C.T.A. allows event professionals to book talent directly online– and save up to 90% in time and effort and recently added some high-profile names: Audiopaxx (Carmada, LDRU), Profile Talent (Danii Minogue, David Campbell, Ed Kavalee, Joel Creasey), and Niche Productions (Furnace and the Fundamentals).

This month A.C.T.A. won the National Award for Innovation in Events at the Meetings & Events (MEA) Awards at the ballroom of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center.

Accepting the award, founder and CEO Harris Meitanis told the 1,000 guests, “There’s no greater accolade, than one bestowed upon you by your colleagues and by those who your work is designed to serve.

“The Event Ecosystem’s platforms were built specifically for an industry we’re extremely passionate about, and to receive this award, as well as the NSW state award (in February) and continuous plaudits and adoption by our peers justifies to me personally that I wasn’t crazy after all – people are actually excited to embrace the future.”

A day earlier, Meitanis presented the keynote at EVOLVE 2019 on the Third Industrial Age.

“We have too long been subject to slow, tangled processes and some unscrupulous behaviour,” he said.

“Freedom and control of information is the defining characteristic of this The Information Age.

“We have a duty to our beloved industries, to keep innovating and evolving processes so that all parties are able to work safer, easier and freely in order to create incredible and memorable events.”

The Event Ecosystem team’s booth at the meet received a visit from brand ambassador and ARIA-winning singer-songwriter Megan Washington, who was across the road working on premiering her first opera, for Opera Queensland, based on Georgia Blain’s 2017 novel Between A Wolf And A Dog.

Washington met with delegates, and during an interview said, “I always enjoy events where the client has thought a lot about the song they want me to perform.

“Often it dovetails perfectly with their message, in a way which I would never have thought of myself.”

Since launch, the app has facilitated bookings from Adam Goodes, Reece Mastin, Glen McGrath, Touch Sensitive, Jules Lund, Tenzin and Sophie Monk.

In mid-February, The Event Ecosystem launched G.E.T – Global Event Talent – which sources non-celebrity talent.

G.E.T – Global Event Talent – which launched at AIME in February – is a platform for sourcing non-celebrity talent.

It’s picked up 800 new members, including clowns stilt-walkers, fire twirlers, DJs, cover bands and circus acts.

A.C.T.A and  G.E.T are the first booking platforms to adopt frontline blockchain technology, ensuring security and transparency for all parties with a patented CMS designed to deliver the artist/service in a professional capacity.

All financial transactions are between the act and the client, with the platforms not involved in holding any of the payment.

***Date Published** - 16th April 2019*

***Source** - https://themusicnetwork.com/aussie-celebrity-booking-app-a-c-t-a-wins-national-award-and-adds-audiopaxx-profile-talent-more/*

**Associated Celebrity Talent Application (A.C.T.A) and Global Event Talent (G.E.T) were the Beta platforms that have now been combined to comprise the newly revamped 'acta'.*


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Since our invitation-only launch in May, we’ve had a lot of amazing feedback from users. We’re listening, and today, we’re excited to share the latest updates in response to their suggestions. 

**Free Public Liability Insurance**

We know that insurance can be one of the biggest hurdles to a successful booking and event. So we've taken care of it. 

When talent are booked for $10,000.00 or less through acta, they are now automatically included as an interested party under acta’s Public Liability Insurance policy. 

Excitingly, this means that talent can save on annual PLI costs, simply by using acta to manage their bookings. Additionally, for talent that wish to use their own policy, we also now allow custom policies to be uploaded to their profile. 

In both cases, the Certificate of Currency is automatically uploaded to every booking once the contract has been exchanged which is excellent news for event organisers given how important this requirement is for talent attendance and the overall production of events.

**Broadcast Messages for Event Organisers**

Managing an event where you're booking multiple talent can be stressful. Everything has to be communicated 2,3,4,5 times right? Not anymore. 

With acta's new Broadcast Message feature, in addition to being able to message talent 1:1, event organisers can also send a single broadcast message that will be received by all the talent attached to an event Event Organisers can also choose to specifically broadcast messages to all talent that are either in enquiry or booked stage.

Given the amount of event organisers that are utilising acta to book their entire entertainment program, we anticipate this will greatly improve the productivity of event organisers on acta by making it quick and easy to instantly share communication with all relevant parties. A real-time industry needs real-time solutions. 

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Moving to new online platform can be difficult and daunting at first. It's another bloody system to learn how to use and can sometimes leave you worried that you'll mess something up. Not really something you can afford to be worrying about when you work in events. Now whilst we know that we'll eventually win everyone over, in the meantime we understand that emails are the dominant mode of communication. 

So, to make everyones life easy, we've introduced the ability for users to reply directly to the “unread message” email notification. Simply hit reply, type your message into the body of the email and once sent and we'll magically copy your message into the platform so that it doesn't get lost.  

All new “new chat message” emails will now include the body of the message right inside the email for extra convenience.  

Now like we said, we're improving the product every week and soon, we'll be releasing a lite version of our mobile app which will make it even easier to reply to messages and check event documents. For now though, when you're on-the-go using your mobile or just strapped for time, this will do the trick! 


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