Dine In Cinema Summit : Virtually Yours | 2021 Sessions & Recap Videos
Many thanks to the Virtually Yours | 2021 sponsors panelists, and attendees of this years summit. See you next year!
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Held on January 26, 2021
| Session Title | Link to Video | Synopsis | Host & Panelists | Sponsored By |
| Intro Video | 
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Kickoff video - summary of past 14 months! | Matt Mader, John Holstrom, Amy Mader |    |
| New Uses Deliver New Revenue | 
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Is your cinema over-screened? Now’s the time to start thinking about ideas to repurpose some of your spaces. Has the increasing lack of big Hollywood content got you thinking about additional revenue sources? What can you start to plan for today, to be ready for the ever-changing OOH cinema experience, for when post pandemic audiences return? | TK Architects and Fresh Strategies with:
Theresa English, Principal at TK Architects Chad Philhour, Principal at TK Architects Bill Tishler, CEO at Fresh Strategies John Plumpton, Strategic Partner at Fresh Strategies |
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| Next Generation Auditorium |
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Showcasing some creative ideas for the next generation auditorium that caters to the many opportunities cinema venues can offer customers in the new landscape of cinema! | Matt Mader, Founder & Partner of Venue Valet with:
Hat, Influx Mark Collins, Harman J. Sperling Reich, Celluloid Junkie |
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| Event Cinema Role During a Post-COVID Time | 
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We are entering a new era post-COVID and we aim to share how event cinema can be a better partner to you. Look for an open, engaging and informative discussion in relation to how event cinema not only helps generate revenue but also fills the content void during a very challenging time. | Bernadette McCabe, Spotlight’s EVP, Event Cinema & Exhibitor Relations with:
Lynne Schmidt - SVP, Operations & Strategic Partnerships, Fathom Events Tom Hassell – SVP, Head of Sales, Abramorama Joe Garel – VP, Film, Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas Kymberli Frueh – SVP, Programming & Content Acquisition, Trafalgar |
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| IT/Technology & How It Can Help Shape the Cinema Industry of Tomorrow | 
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2020 is past us - and 2021 is here. How has 2020 allowed technology companies and cinemas take a step back and evaluate what makes sense for their business and the industry? What should we be considering as important for 2021 and 2022 might not have been on the radar in 2019 - now's the time to be smart about the technology you employ, how you use it and how you evaluate successes and failures so you can be an industry leader in 2022. | Matt Mader, Founder & Partner of Venue Valet and John Holstrom, Partner of Venue Valet with:
John Burrows, Business Development Manager at Vista Doug Fay, CTO Cinemark Gregory Siewiera, CEO POSitive Cinema/LSI Software Mahesh Shankar, CTO of Influx Jason Green, President of Theater Toolkit Nathan Hunstable, CTO Cinergy Entertainment Jeff Hemingway, Storming Images Frank Tees, VP Tech Sales & Support, MIT Dusty Thomas, Director of Business Dev at GDC Technology Scott Pederson, VP Managed Services at Secured Retail |
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| Legal, Real Estate & Financial Topics | 
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2021 should provide opportunities that haven't been presented before: lease negotiations, asset leasing and protection, bankruptcy and/or reorganization planning, vendor agreements and impacts. All of these issues have been placed in the forefront of cinema owners requiring immediate attention for opportunities. | Matthew Baizer, COO of Flix Brewhouse with:
Jonathan Friedland, Attorney Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLC. Specializing in business restructuring Mark Hartman, Attorney Davis Hartman Wright PLLC. Attorney and cinema owner Kyle Hill, Attorney Martin, Frost & Hill. Attorney specializing in liquor laws Rodney Speaks, Former Owner The Moviehouse & Eatery |
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| Repurposing Cinema Space to Host Live Entertainment | 
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Some interesting information from an Austin-based company about the opportunity to book live events! | Matt Mader, Founder & Partner of Venue Valet with:
Bob Brecht & Glenda Black from TSE Entertainment |
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| How to Survive and Thrive in Tomorrow's Market | 
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Individualizing each of your theatres. With the global pandemic ending, so is the way we have done business in the past. Last year, adding a full service bar, a restaurant or simply an expanded food selection worked as a cookie cutter formula in all of your theatres. During the Pandemic you may have tried a few different “tricks” and “creative marketing” to bring some of your customers in the door. To regain your footing and thrive tomorrow it will take some reinventing and customizing for each of your locations to the market in which it is located. Get to know your customers with a basic demographic study of current and future audiences is critical. Determine if you need to convert one or two houses or your lobby or the store front next door into a children, teen, single adult or mature family entertainment center. And what makes perfect sense for one or two of your theatres, may not work in any of the others. Include local content to the mix of “individualizing” each theatre in your circuit of 2 or 102 theatres. | Jeff Kaplan, NEC with:
Matthew Baizer - COO Flix Brewhouse Rob Novak - VP Concessions and F&B, Marcus Theatres Siobhan Scalamogna - Director of Sales at PepsiCo Sandy Karp - VP of Construction & Development at iPic |
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| General Manager Chat - Getting Ramped Back Up After 2020 | 
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Get a first hand response to questions and the big issues being faced by General Managers in the dine-in cinema industry as they are the people in charge of making their venue a success on all fronts: hiring, scheduling, content, execution, financial and vendor relations. | John Holstrom, Partner of Venue Valet and Matt Mader, Founder & Partner of Venue Valet with:
Albert Waitt - Director of Operations at Smittys Cinema, ME Alison Meyer, GM of Fridley Theatre's Palms location Adam Levetow - GM Movie Tavern, Brookfield Square, WI (Marcus) Izzy Garcia from Star Cinema Grill in Houston, TX |
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| HAPPY HOUR! | 
Sorry, this video deemed inappropriate for young audiences! Join us on our regular Tuesday Happy Hour to see what really goes on. |
It started on March 31, 2020 as a replacement for our scheduled happy hour with customers and vendors at CinemaCon 2020 - and we haven't missed a Tuesday since! LIke we sometimes do, we'll have a few special guests to discuss: Live Entertainment Options and Factors to Consider. | Matt Mader, Amy Mader, John Holstrom AND Friends from Venue Valet |  |
