How To Create Memorable Community Events | Rebecca Marshburn, Kaila Lim, Piper Wilson, SueJean Kang

This talk was recorded at CMX Summit 2022: Thrive

Out of all the events you've attended, which ones were the most memorable? As community leaders, one of our roles is to develop memorable opportunities to connect members more deeply with each other and your product. Join us to hear our views on memorable experiences and come away with new insights into planning your community events!

SPEAKERS:


Rebecca Marshburn
Head of Community
Common Room

Rebecca Marshburn is Head of Community at Common Room, co-host of the Serverless Chats podcast, and believer in poetry. Rebecca has worked in various community capacities since 2012—from running content for a local community nonprofit in New Orleans and studying the power of communal spaces to leading the AWS Serverless Heroes and Community Builders programs and launching and running Common Room’s Uncommon community, a healthy and fun space where more than 1000 community and DevRel builders share expertise and collective elevate the community function.


Kaila Lim
Community Experience Manager
The Org

Kaila only has 1 rule and it’s to never go straight home after work. In a city like New York, the opportunities to be a part of amazing communities are endless.

She’s a multi-passionate community builder and storyteller hosting dinners in the NYC tech scene and co-creating company wide events for The Org. She didn't start her career cultivating community for tech startups. It was a windy road of tenacity, gaining self awareness through hard lessons, and a lot of kindness from others. After years of catalyzing professional communities in NYC and Seoul as a “passion project” on the side, she quit her main job in software sales enablement in May 2021. It gave her the feeling of closing a great book and the anticipation of opening the next one.

Unemployed and full of energy, she volunteered with Seoul Startups, the largest international community of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, and developers in South Korea. The experience of hosting events amidst a pandemic and strict city rules is what solidified her conviction in gathering. People were craving to come back together in person. She used this opportunity to be creative in how people met up – morning hikes, hackathons, and intimate lunches. Coming together for a shared experience is the fabric of a thriving community.

Last year, she got hired at The Org to cultivate their internal community and grow their external community. Currently, she is putting on more intimate dinners and events in Soho while co-leading the annual Offsite in late September. When she’s not busy connecting people, she writes a newsletter, creates TikToks, and runs in Central Park. She’s @kailajlim across socials.


Piper Wilson
Consultant, Strategic Services
Higher Logic

Once upon a time, Piper thought she wanted to be a writer, but she ended up spending all her time in the writer communities instead of actually writing. That was when she realized she would rather work in the community space than write.

Piper has been working in the field for about fifteen years. She started in the trenches and worked her way up. She finds personal meaning & fulfillment in her work and loves to help others do the same.


MODERATOR:

SueJean Kang
Senior Events Manager
Bevy

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