How to run a remote community event

Swiss Innovation Academy

Hi lovely human 👋

This week I'm sharing a lot of learnings and tools based on my experience running a conference. The idea is to help others do the same!

The overview

Here is a the overview of all the new Service Design content I've worked on this week:

1 new toolkit for people who want to create their own community webinars or remote conferences
1 blog article for Service Design students on how to make great diploma presentations
3 backstage blog article about the tools and setup we used for the hybrid Service Design Day 2024 conference, how we're planning the Service Design Week 2025 and how we're using Notion to brief the volunteers.

Greetings from Switzerland,

Daniele 🧔🏻‍♂️

p.s. As always, you'll find all below for when you have the time to read this newsletter.

New: Webinar builder toolkit

I've decided to open source a set of 5 templates and tools to run more easily your next community webinar or remote conference.

These tools are based on my experience running webinar and remote conferences with hundreds of participants.

Instead of keeping these tools for me I'm releasing them for free so that more remote communities can be created around the world.

Have fun adapting these tools to your community style and identity. And more importantely: thanks for being a community organizer!

The toolkit includes:

Speaker Bio Creator:

A bot that helps you transform information from a LinkedIn profile into 3 different short 3-5 sentences bios you can use to present your guest speaker.
Editable Webinar Trailer:

A 30 second video trailer that presents your guest speaker and webinar structure.
Editable Conference Trailer:

A 30 second video trailer that presents your multi day or multi speaker event.
Editable Countdown Video:

A countdown video that you can use at the start of your live stream
Guides: showing you my favorite setup in terms of hardware and software and recommended blog posts that get nerdy about the tools, planning and time management side of webinars.

Get the toolkit for free

Master Service Design Blog

As part of my job at Master Service Design of the HSLU I write articles on how to survive a master program with tips that can apply to the professional life too.

Tips: How to create an excellent final presentation without presentation skills

Backstage blog

I love to explain how I'm building educational content. I'm trying to be as transparent as possible so that it might motivate others to create such content too. These are the latest blog posts I've written:

Tools and learnings: The simple and minimal setup we used to run a hybrid conference.
Annoucement and reflection: My plan for the Swiss Service Design Week 2025
Notion: How I use Notion to organize the volunteer work for the Swiss Service Design Week 2025