\u201cKristin Cabot\u2019s life \u2018blew up\u2019 last July after a fleeting moment at a Coldplay concert became a global obsession,\u201d a promotional social media post read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a story; it\u2019s a technical use case in survival,\u201d it continued, promising attendees would learn \u201cthe exact PR architecture used to fight back against a 300-billion-view frenzy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cabot gained worldwide infamy after she was caught out in an affair with her boss, former Astronomer chief executive Andy Byron, at a Coldplay concert in Boston.<\/p>\n
She was famously seen covering her face and attempting to duck from view as live images of her and Byron, who were married to other people, were beamed on the arena\u2019s Jumbotron during a kiss cam segment.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, look at these two. You\u2019re all right. You\u2019re okay. Oh, what? Either they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was heard saying in the moment.<\/p>\n
They both resigned from their jobs within a month following the incident. <\/p>\n
Cabot filed for divorce from her husband, Andrew, whom she later revealed was also in attendance at the show.<\/p>\n
Kristin Cabot. Photo \/ LinkedIn<\/p>\n
\u201cCabot experienced first-hand the extremity of public shaming that women have long experienced when in the negative spotlight of the media, one their male counterparts often seem to avoid,\u201d a descriptor of her conference presentation read.<\/p>\n
The website advises interested attendees that they will be equipped with the \u201ctactics necessary to pivot at a moment\u2019s notice for unexpected occurrences that are now the norm, not the exception\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons (hard seltzers) and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss,\u201d Cabot said in a December New York Times interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s not nothing. I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That\u2019s the price I chose to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Social media response to the announcement was not favourable.<\/p>\n
One Instagram user asked, \u201cWtf is wrong with people rewarding this behaviour?\u201d, suggesting the session should be called \u201cHow to cheat on your spouse and then cry victim\u201d.<\/p>\n
Another asked, \u201cWho has the narrative and who gave it away in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n
A third commenter jokingly asked, \u201cWill there be a Kiss Cam?\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference will kick off on April 16 at Washington DC\u2019s Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKristin Cabot\u2019s life \u2018blew up\u2019 last July after a fleeting moment at a Coldplay concert became a global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[696,1975,1558,28609,26879,1550,14245,8555,4766,537,156,128793,19727,17254,685,10136,111,139,69,1030,9644,40393,17426,1354,1530],"class_list":["post-268749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-announced","tag-at","tag-been","tag-cabot","tag-cam","tag-centre","tag-coldplay","tag-communications","tag-conference","tag-crisis","tag-entertainment","tag-keynote","tag-kiss","tag-kristin","tag-last","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pr","tag-scandal","tag-scandals","tag-speaker","tag-woman","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}