Next Level Humanity | Ron Shah | AI, Events & Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic

Our founder and CEO Nevşah Fidan Karamehmet welcomes Ron Shah in this episode of Next Level Humanity Podcast. Ron is the founder and CEO of Bizly, one of the world’s leading platforms for booking in-person events at venues across the globe.In this insightful conversation, Ron shares his entrepreneurial journey from launching Bizly in 2016 as a consumer app to successfully pivoting into the enterprise space. He dives deep into the incredible challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the complete shutdown of live events, and how the company navigated those turbulent times through resilience, innovation, and adaptability.Ron discusses Bizly’s transition into asynchronous meetings, hybrid functionalities, and their bold experiments with virtual formats. He also talks about burnout, the future of events in a post-pandemic world, and how AI is now at the core of their technology allowing them to scale intelligently with a lean team and deliver innovative, bundled solutions for events that eliminate the need for human intermediaries.Towards the end, Ron reveals Bizly’s next major step: expanding into the SMB market with a powerful AI-driven platform designed to simplify and revolutionize how businesses plan and book events.Tune in for a powerful story of persistence, reinvention, and the future of event technology.