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AWS Adds Consumer-Centric Touchpoints to re:Invent
Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference has grown 700 percent since its 2012 debut. And with 2017’s event attracting more than 42,000 attendees—a 40 percent increase from the year prior—the challenge was to sustain that growth and scale without compromising the attendee experience. So, AWS effectively took over the Las Vegas strip by expanding to seven...
Shipping Containers Help Tell Alibaba’s Brand Story
Chinese e-commerce goliath Alibaba’s first public event in the U.S., Gateway ’17, was designed to educate people on business opportunities in China, inspire small businesses and reignite trade between the two countries. With a five-year initiative to fuel growth and spending in the Chinese economy while creating new jobs in the U.S., Alibaba created an...
GE Expands its Customer Event with a ‘Social Studio’
GE’s annual Minds + Machines event explores the digital transformation of an industrial company, the state of the Industrial Internet, and the environment in which these industrial assets and technologies live and work. But this year, the company sought to go beyond offering content to its audience of GE customers, developers, partners, industry luminaries and...
Oracle Turns OpenWorld Into a Networking Extravaganza
Looking to go beyond the mere “format tweaks” that other brands have instituted at their b-to-b events, Oracle designed an ambitious strategy to completely reinvent and reimagine the modern b-to-b event, serving up its own OpenWorld 2016 to the industry as a guinea pig. The goal? Rethink, reimagine and redesign the 55,000-person event as a...