In the next episode of Tech in 26.2 Podcast on Traxamo, I sit down with Shannan Gove, Cofounder of Rosterfy - an Australia based volunteer management platform used by 3 million+ volunteers and staff globally. If you have been to any events, you know volunteers play a critical role for the success of events especially mass participation sports events. Supporting events like FIFA World Cup, ParaOlympics, ICC T20 Cricket World Up, Super Bowl etc.. Rosterfy manages end to end volunteer journey supporting recruitment, onboarding, expense management, integrations with other platforms thus reducing cost and increasing volunteer retention for organizers. Here are some key focus areas of our conversation:
⛳ How looking for volunteering opportunities to land a job after graduation lead to founding Rosterfy
⛳ How Rosterfy supports volunteer management for nonprofits & charities, mass participating events, universities & colleges, cities & local governments, sporting federations etc
⛳ Solving for having enough volunteers and retaining them for the event organizers
⛳ Why only volunteers and not larger workforce?
⛳ Trends in volunteerism and AI
Podcast Outline
0:05 Episode summary
0:55 Introduction
2:35 How looking for volunteering opportunities to land a job after graduation lead to founding Rosterfy
6:16 How does Rosterfy support managing volunteers for Fifa World Cup, ICC T20 Cricket Worldcup, Super Bowl, Charities & Non-profits, Colleges & Universities
9:03 Improving volunteer retention
10:52 Solving for not having enough volunteers
15:53 Importance for integrating with other tools and processes
18:02 Why Rosterfy is only focusing on volunteers
20:54 “oh shit” moments
23:38 What’s next for Rosterfy
26:13 How Rosterfy is thinking and leveraging AI
28:36 Trends in volunteerism
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