
New Orleans Entrepreneur Week
New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) is a week-long conference produced by The Idea Village in New Orleans, Louisiana. This unique and completely free gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and domain experts happens annually and boasts over 14,000 attendees annually.
The Idea Village engaged with LookFar first in 2017 as their official tech partner with the frontend redesign and rebuild of the NOEW site. This partnership has sustained through the present and will into the foreseeable future, touching the website, hosting migration and maintenance, and optimized reporting.






Product Management Milestones:
Reduced annual hosting costs by over $20k/year by completing deep audit of current system and migrating from Rackspace to Cloudsites
Redesigned user-facing website to include interactive schedule, increasing event forecasting capabilities
Optimized schedule functionality for mobile-use to increase engagement of users while on-site
Created and gained buy-in for end-to-end user flows across multiple key persona's use cases
Increased website traffic by over 250% from previous year, comprised of general attendees, investors, speakers and startup founders
First year integrating with Solomon Group proprietary RFID hardware and software to streamline on-site registration quantify session check-ins and overall engagement
Product Details:
Custom PHP and frontend CMS
Robust reporting on users, individual event forecasting and on-site engagement
Hosted by LiquidWeb
Eventbrite integration
MailChimp integration
FormAssembly integration
Salesforce integration
Solomon Group integration
