Author archive for Anna Huddleston
Eight Strategies for Reducing Food Waste in Trade Shows and Events
Some 2,600 unserved meals were donated by the Washington Hilton after the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner was cut short on April 25 by a gunman. During a rare and dramatic event, the staff were able to follow the established food-saving protocols and didn’t let the meals go to waste. The Washington Hilton is...
Skeletons and Tattoos: How Torq Brings World Building to Trade Shows
If you’re not putting on a show, you’re just paying for a spot on carpet, says Don Jeter, cmo of Torq. At RSAC 2026, the enterprise security company went all in with a 20-foot inflatable skeleton and a fully operational tattoo bus. Insight was sizzling at the Cyber Wok lunch and CISO Karaoke, meetings were...
10 Minutes With… Gaby Ferreres, Head of Industry Marketing at AWS
As the media sector experiences rapidly change, Amazon Web Services (AWS) came to the NAB Show 2026 with the mission to empower storytellers to create, distribute, and monetize content at unprecedented scale. To deliver that, the brand leaned into a multi-pronged activation approach that engaged attendees across multiple touchpoints, from high-energy fun challenges to hands-on,...
Field Report: Product Demos That Delivered at NAB 2026
The 2026 NAB Show, April 18–22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, brought together more than 58,000 media professionals shaping the future of how content is created and delivered in entertainment, sports, news, and other forms of storytelling. Almost half of the audience members were first-time attendees, with 22 percent coming from outside the U.S. ...