Julius Solaris

Events Consultant and Creator | Follow me for insights on events, marketing and technology.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

About

My free weekly newsletter read by 38k event professionals -> insights.Boldpush.com I am obsessed with media, content, and events. I sold two businesses, a tech company and a media business, worked in fast-paced environments, keynoted worldwide, planned iconic virtual events during the pandemic, and wrote reports downloaded 300k times. Longer story: I founded EventMB (exited to Skift in 2019) and Showthemes, exited in 2018, and worked for technology companies and tech events. I have been in senior marketing positions in hypergrowth tech companies. Recently, I founded Boldpush, a management consulting agency for the event industry. In 2023, 8 million LinkedIn users read my content and I became a Top Voice, an invite only program for top content creators on LinkedIn. The government of the United States granted me an EB1 visa as an alien of extraordinary ability for my contribution to the event industry and research on event technology. Many publications have nominated me as the most influential individual in the event industry for several years. 300,000 event professionals downloaded my books.

Experience

  • Founder at Boldpush
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Boldpush is a vertical agency helping corporate teams and associations with their event strategy. Go-to-market, content, registration and sponsorship strategy. Past clients include: SAS, Swoogo, Kaltura, InEvent, Smartsource, BW Events Tech, IMEX, Bizzabo, Tourisme Montreal, Visit Newport Beach.

  • VP of Marketing Strategy, Events at Hopin
    Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 · 6 mos

    I looked after Hopin's go-to-market strategy for the meetings and events industry. I learned a lot about tech, they learned a lot about events.

  • Head of Engagement at Swapcard
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 · 6 mos

    My first tech role after 15 years in media. We figured out a complex content machine in a few weeks. I loved the team and had a lot of fun.

  • Editor In Chief - EventMB, a Skift brand at EventMB
    Apr 2007 - Feb 2021 · 13 yrs 11 mos

    EventMB (now SkiftMeetings) was the point of reference for the event industry. Bootstrapped and sold in 2019 to Skift. We revolutionized the way to do content in the event industry, influenced trends, and had fun while doing it. Millions of readers and numbers never seen before in our industry.

  • CEO at Showthemes
    Sep 2014 - Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    I thought the market needed WordPress themes specifically made for events. Turns out I was right. 6,000 customers later I sold the business.