Meeting Title: Austin Event Planning Sync Date: 2026-03-27 Meeting participants: Hannah Wang, Lauri Eurén
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1 00:02:14.160 ⇒ 00:02:15.840 Lauri Eurén: Hi enough, sorry I’m a bit late.
2 00:02:16.920 ⇒ 00:02:18.140 Hannah Wang: No, you’re good.
3 00:02:18.140 ⇒ 00:02:18.650 Lauri Eurén: Yeah.
4 00:02:19.130 ⇒ 00:02:20.269 Hannah Wang: Hey, how are you?
5 00:02:21.060 ⇒ 00:02:22.150 Lauri Eurén: Fine, how are you?
6 00:02:23.010 ⇒ 00:02:24.910 Hannah Wang: Friday.
7 00:02:24.910 ⇒ 00:02:29.280 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, I’ve had a… I’ve had one of those weeks, just,
8 00:02:30.190 ⇒ 00:02:33.729 Lauri Eurén: Hoping that it’s… I’m glad it’s over.
9 00:02:33.730 ⇒ 00:02:35.359 Hannah Wang: Have, like, an event.
10 00:02:35.360 ⇒ 00:02:36.210 Lauri Eurén: Yes.
11 00:02:36.210 ⇒ 00:02:36.670 Hannah Wang: Okay.
12 00:02:36.670 ⇒ 00:02:38.589 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, so Robert was actually there.
13 00:02:38.590 ⇒ 00:02:39.110 Hannah Wang: That’s nice.
14 00:02:39.110 ⇒ 00:02:40.450 Lauri Eurén: Nice to see him there.
15 00:02:40.450 ⇒ 00:02:40.800 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
16 00:02:40.800 ⇒ 00:02:46.990 Lauri Eurén: But it’s always, you know, hosting and organizing and whatnot, so it’s… At least takes its toll.
17 00:02:46.990 ⇒ 00:02:52.760 Hannah Wang: Yeah, and I don’t know about you, but social battery-wise, I’m sure it’s tiring.
18 00:02:52.760 ⇒ 00:02:53.400 Lauri Eurén: range.
19 00:02:53.400 ⇒ 00:02:53.770 Hannah Wang: Interesting.
20 00:02:53.770 ⇒ 00:02:55.240 Lauri Eurén: Yeah.
21 00:02:55.420 ⇒ 00:02:57.080 Lauri Eurén: Recharge.
22 00:02:57.240 ⇒ 00:03:02.410 Lauri Eurén: Hey, I wanted to quick… have a quick chat about… because, kind of like, it’s,
23 00:03:02.740 ⇒ 00:03:06.569 Lauri Eurén: It’s only a couple of weeks, or a few weeks until that week when I’m in Austin.
24 00:03:06.570 ⇒ 00:03:07.020 Hannah Wang: Yeah?
25 00:03:07.020 ⇒ 00:03:10.000 Lauri Eurén: I just looked up my calendar.
26 00:03:10.190 ⇒ 00:03:17.130 Lauri Eurén: And… I’m kind of like… to be honest, I wanted to sync with you about this, because I’m…
27 00:03:17.360 ⇒ 00:03:23.739 Lauri Eurén: Looks like I’m quite booked with other events, like Wednesday to Friday, when I’m there.
28 00:03:24.170 ⇒ 00:03:30.180 Lauri Eurén: And I was one, like… I was wondering, like,
29 00:03:31.650 ⇒ 00:03:37.720 Lauri Eurén: Could we, like… could we spin up, like, a… A breakfast event, or…
30 00:03:38.050 ⇒ 00:03:44.260 Lauri Eurén: something different that’s a bit lighter. You know, after work is always, obviously, a bit, you know, that there’s a more…
31 00:03:44.600 ⇒ 00:03:49.880 Lauri Eurén: you know, it just takes a bit more time, and I have these evening events during the week, so…
32 00:03:50.370 ⇒ 00:04:05.450 Lauri Eurén: That’s one. And then I was also thinking, like, okay, like, is Saturday brunch out of the question? I think many people with families maybe then wouldn’t join, right? So it could be a bit of a hit or miss there.
33 00:04:06.030 ⇒ 00:04:09.410 Lauri Eurén: But… and then I was kind of, like, thinking that if we…
34 00:04:09.750 ⇒ 00:04:18.739 Lauri Eurén: Might also be, like, a waste of resources to then try to squeeze in something just for the sake of it, if it feels like that it’s too, kind of, fast and cramped.
35 00:04:18.740 ⇒ 00:04:19.100 Hannah Wang: That’s true.
36 00:04:20.019 ⇒ 00:04:20.769 Hannah Wang: Totally.
37 00:04:20.899 ⇒ 00:04:26.499 Hannah Wang: So, what… which Wednesday to Friday are you in town?
38 00:04:26.500 ⇒ 00:04:27.950 Lauri Eurén: So… Yeah.
39 00:04:28.530 ⇒ 00:04:35.360 Lauri Eurén: I’m there, like, 14th. I’m coming in the morning.
40 00:04:35.360 ⇒ 00:04:36.150 Hannah Wang: Okay.
41 00:04:36.150 ⇒ 00:04:40.400 Lauri Eurén: And I’m gonna be until the next Tuesday, but, like, 21st, but…
42 00:04:40.700 ⇒ 00:04:42.969 Lauri Eurén: I’m booked in these few events.
43 00:04:43.180 ⇒ 00:04:50.800 Lauri Eurén: That I’m not hosting, so basically it’s, you know, I’m just a guest, but still they’re kind of a sponsoring.
44 00:04:50.800 ⇒ 00:04:51.560 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
45 00:04:51.560 ⇒ 00:04:55.699 Lauri Eurén: But I could most likely kind of, you know, sneak out from them.
46 00:04:55.860 ⇒ 00:05:02.640 Lauri Eurén: For a while, to kind of, you know, just for a few hours to do a lunch or a brunch, I’m sure that would be fine.
47 00:05:02.950 ⇒ 00:05:03.490 Hannah Wang: Right.
48 00:05:03.980 ⇒ 00:05:09.780 Lauri Eurén: But after work event, I think I’m quite booked Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, so…
49 00:05:10.340 ⇒ 00:05:12.829 Lauri Eurén: Those are usually the best dates to host afterwards.
50 00:05:13.190 ⇒ 00:05:14.060 Lauri Eurén: Yes, you know.
51 00:05:14.250 ⇒ 00:05:14.970 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
52 00:05:15.330 ⇒ 00:05:21.640 Hannah Wang: I… I don’t think we’d be opposed to doing, like, a coffee,
53 00:05:22.230 ⇒ 00:05:34.279 Hannah Wang: event, because Robert recently, I think just yesterday, we hosted, like, a coffee, and brunch type of activity, but I think it was mainly just grabbing coffee, so I feel like…
54 00:05:34.280 ⇒ 00:05:35.340 Lauri Eurén: light like that.
55 00:05:35.340 ⇒ 00:05:35.700 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
56 00:05:35.700 ⇒ 00:05:38.649 Lauri Eurén: In the city, kind of a coffee meet-up.
57 00:05:38.650 ⇒ 00:05:40.120 Hannah Wang: Yeah, whoa.
58 00:05:40.290 ⇒ 00:05:41.680 Lauri Eurén: very low-key.
59 00:05:42.110 ⇒ 00:05:46.689 Lauri Eurén: easy to organize, two hours in and out sort of a situation.
60 00:05:46.690 ⇒ 00:05:50.259 Hannah Wang: Yeah, yeah, maybe something like 9 to 11.
61 00:05:50.260 ⇒ 00:05:51.130 Lauri Eurén: And, like, etc.
62 00:05:51.130 ⇒ 00:05:54.360 Hannah Wang: Austin. I don’t know where you’re staying at.
63 00:05:54.360 ⇒ 00:06:03.479 Lauri Eurén: I’m in Central… I’m there in the… in, kind of, central Austin, in downtown, so anything there works for me. Okay.
64 00:06:03.820 ⇒ 00:06:06.340 Lauri Eurén: I’m gonna… what I’m gonna do is…
65 00:06:06.450 ⇒ 00:06:15.009 Lauri Eurén: I’m gonna message the… the host of the events that I’m attending, kind of saying that, hey, you know, this opportunity came that I could host a bit of a, you know.
66 00:06:15.240 ⇒ 00:06:19.330 Lauri Eurén: Coffee, breakfast meeting, something like that.
67 00:06:19.530 ⇒ 00:06:22.850 Lauri Eurén: So which would be the best day, you know, for that? I’m thinking, like…
68 00:06:23.120 ⇒ 00:06:26.200 Lauri Eurén: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, some of those, right?
69 00:06:26.660 ⇒ 00:06:29.390 Lauri Eurén: So, I could get back to you on that.
70 00:06:30.100 ⇒ 00:06:43.520 Hannah Wang: Yeah, just message me, you can tag me in the Black channel that we have together, and then, obviously, yeah, we need… I don’t think Robert… I don’t know if Robert will be there, but Utam obviously lives there.
71 00:06:43.520 ⇒ 00:06:52.620 Lauri Eurén: I know Tom is there. So, Robert, I think Robert’s only coming for the… there’s a VixilCon event, but that’s only kind of after that week. I’m there for other events.
72 00:06:52.870 ⇒ 00:06:54.069 Lauri Eurén: The prior week.
73 00:06:54.280 ⇒ 00:07:03.950 Hannah Wang: Yeah, so just get back to me on the date, and then in terms of finding, like, a location and making, like, an invite, like, we can totally handle that. I’m sure Utang knows a ton of places.
74 00:07:03.950 ⇒ 00:07:04.610 Lauri Eurén: Yeah.
75 00:07:04.630 ⇒ 00:07:05.480 Hannah Wang: And then…
76 00:07:05.480 ⇒ 00:07:06.050 Lauri Eurén: Exactly.
77 00:07:06.050 ⇒ 00:07:14.069 Hannah Wang: I’ll just make the Luma invite, I’ll make the graphic and everything, and then we can co-host it and co-brand it, and then…
78 00:07:14.070 ⇒ 00:07:21.979 Lauri Eurén: then I can sponsor, you know, obviously then parts of it and so on, so… Sure. If you do… you do that work, then I can just chime in and, you know…
79 00:07:21.980 ⇒ 00:07:22.340 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
80 00:07:22.340 ⇒ 00:07:24.350 Lauri Eurén: If there’s any costs involved, I can do that.
81 00:07:24.730 ⇒ 00:07:32.430 Hannah Wang: Yeah, I think maybe a coffee would be a lighter lift. I think what we hosted last time was awesome, but it took a bit of…
82 00:07:32.790 ⇒ 00:07:36.860 Hannah Wang: planning. Obviously, we needed to come up with, like, an agenda and find, like, a.
83 00:07:36.860 ⇒ 00:07:47.759 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, exactly, so the coffee meetup is such a lighter kind of, you know, way to do it, and still a good excuse to have, you know, people over and chat and network, so…
84 00:07:47.760 ⇒ 00:07:59.219 Hannah Wang: Yeah. For sure. And I’m assuming you have people in your network and who live in Austin, you could maybe… Yeah. Right. Okay, yeah. I’m sure Utom has a ton of contacts, too. Yeah.
85 00:07:59.580 ⇒ 00:08:18.580 Lauri Eurén: Okay. But I’m just gonna first try to confirm, like, there’s still a possibility that I’m gonna be like, oh, it’s not gonna happen, so it’s like, I’m usually quite optimistic of my schedule and trying to squeeze everything in, but sometimes I’m just like, I gotta tell myself that, okay, you know, I need to focus on one thing. So I’ll confirm from the person hosting that, is there a good time?
86 00:08:18.580 ⇒ 00:08:23.680 Lauri Eurén: to do that, and I’ll get back to you, if it’s possible. If not, then next time.
87 00:08:23.680 ⇒ 00:08:29.469 Hannah Wang: Next time, yeah. Cool. Are you in town for… are you going to VixelCon, too? Yeah. Or is it just… Yeah. Okay, cool.
88 00:08:29.470 ⇒ 00:08:31.850 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, so I’m kind of… that’s why I’m staying. I have this sort of…
89 00:08:32.220 ⇒ 00:08:37.049 Lauri Eurén: There’s this agency, community called Bureau of Digital.
90 00:08:37.059 ⇒ 00:08:37.449 Hannah Wang: Okay.
91 00:08:37.450 ⇒ 00:08:39.889 Lauri Eurén: And they have events,
92 00:08:40.490 ⇒ 00:08:45.839 Lauri Eurén: On the prior week, and then I’m staying over the weekend, and staying for Pixel, and then leaving back to New York City, after that.
93 00:08:47.540 ⇒ 00:08:49.439 Hannah Wang: Booked and busy, I’m sure.
94 00:08:49.440 ⇒ 00:08:53.810 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, that’s a busy week, and you know, after that week, I’m gonna be…
95 00:08:54.110 ⇒ 00:08:58.030 Lauri Eurén: I’m gonna be so drained, you know, my battery’s kind of…
96 00:08:58.030 ⇒ 00:09:03.129 Hannah Wang: You need to recharge… we have… you have about 3 weeks, so…
97 00:09:03.130 ⇒ 00:09:07.350 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, I’m gonna try to eat tonight, just kind of… ugh, yeah.
98 00:09:07.730 ⇒ 00:09:11.119 Hannah Wang: Are you, like, an introvert, usually? Or do you think.
99 00:09:11.120 ⇒ 00:09:15.740 Lauri Eurén: I’m considering myself a trained extrovert.
100 00:09:16.090 ⇒ 00:09:19.600 Lauri Eurén: Sort of, you know, so I kind of… I do get energy out of that.
101 00:09:19.830 ⇒ 00:09:22.470 Lauri Eurén: But I… I’m not like that, sort of…
102 00:09:22.580 ⇒ 00:09:36.829 Lauri Eurén: endless energy type of person, right? So, I enjoy it, I enjoy the company of other people, but then, when I get home, I’m all like, and now these days, kind of, I’m just like, I just wanna, you know, watch Netflix.
103 00:09:36.830 ⇒ 00:09:38.420 Hannah Wang: Just do nothing.
104 00:09:38.650 ⇒ 00:09:40.730 Lauri Eurén: Yeah, exactly.
105 00:09:41.310 ⇒ 00:09:42.429 Hannah Wang: Yeah. Cool.
106 00:09:42.430 ⇒ 00:09:43.959 Lauri Eurén: But hey, I’ll get back to you.
107 00:09:43.960 ⇒ 00:09:52.739 Hannah Wang: Yeah. And then from there, we can get the ball rolling, and it should be pretty easy to spin up, and we can start promoting it on LinkedIn and stuff like that after,
108 00:09:53.100 ⇒ 00:09:56.120 Hannah Wang: So yeah, super, super easy.
109 00:09:56.620 ⇒ 00:09:57.290 Hannah Wang: Okay.
110 00:09:57.980 ⇒ 00:09:58.740 Lauri Eurén: Yeah. Cookie.
111 00:09:58.740 ⇒ 00:10:05.340 Hannah Wang: Well, I’ll let you recharge for, hopefully, the rest of today, and hope you have a nice weekend.
112 00:10:05.340 ⇒ 00:10:06.580 Lauri Eurén: You too, you too. Bye.
113 00:10:06.580 ⇒ 00:10:08.120 Hannah Wang: Alright, cheers, bye.