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IBM’s 24-Monitor Touchscreens Light up InterConnect
The InterConnect 2015 stage experience worked not just in one venue, but in a second one across town as well as for a remote audience of more than 15,000. A 24-monitor touchscreen in both locations provided a powerful storytelling tool. Live bands, original imagery and an opening moment that seemingly jumped off the screen and...
IBM Drives B-to-B Strategy with Global Event Council
The Ex judges gasped when IBM’s massive global event program was entered into this category, but after a closer review of the submission … it made sense. Why? Because Big Blue doesn’t think of its string of global events as separate projects—it considers them all part of one event campaign used to build both the...
IBM Hosts a 19K-Person Town Hall Meeting in India
It was IBM’s largest live event ever: a town-hall meeting in India that brought together 19,000 people. In addition to bringing in an A-list speaker roster that included India’s President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and IBM ceo Sam Palmisano, the company linked four separate groups of attendees together for the daylong event—10,000 at the host facility...
IBM Deploys an Interactive Social Media Touchscreen
Social media has always been a powerful tool in the b-to-c realm, but less so for b-to-b marketers who have to find the appropriate balance between personal and professional information sharing and wrangling a wide variety of platforms into one event experience. IBM tackled the challenge last year with a unique proprietary software solution that...