Conferences were a great business — before the pandemic

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Paddy Cosgrave is the co-founder of one of the most popular tech conferences in the world, Web Summit. With its Toronto iteration “Collision” approaching quickly, this year, as a result of the global pandemic, the event must be held online. He sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to detail how his team is pulling that off. Later, Rafat Ali, CEO and Founder of Skift, gives some insight on how his business and travel publication is adapting to the times as well. Featuring: Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave), CEO & Co-Founder of Web Summit Rafat Ali (@rafat), CEO & Co-Founder of Skift Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:42.1	Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me coming to you nearly live on digital tape from Brooklyn.
1:45.9	As I said, for several months right now, I hope everyone is safe and well. I have to reiterate that this week because of the events of the last week. I talked a bit
1:52.9	about what's going on with the George Floyd protests and the way social media is covering
1:57.7	the unrest with Charlie W Warzel earlier this week.
2:01.1	That's a very good conversation.
2:02.6	I direct you to that conversation if you want to hear us talking about the way media is handling this particular time in American and American life, I guess.
2:10.6	And Charlie actually wrote a very good piece that's kind of a more polished version of our conversation, which you can find in the New York Times.
2:18.3	The conversations you're going to hear now are from two people who are running businesses directly affected by the pandemic,
2:24.9	which has taken a backseat for obvious reasons to our conversation, but is not going away.
2:30.0	Both of them have businesses that are really, really affected by the pandemic.
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