Anna Huddleston

The event industry is going green and whether you like it or not you will have to respond to the push toward more environmentally friendly events. But how does an entrenched industry with such a need for big expenditures of energy and resources reduce its footprint? C’mon you build temporary buildings feed thousands at a time drive giant trucks cross-country. You can do it. We’ll show you how.

Email invitations are standard operating procedure for corporate events these days. But even seasoned pros will admit that keeping electronic messages out of the electronic trash is becoming a greater challenge.
Nine tips:

American Express a sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival since the
event's inception in 2002 has added a few new wrinkles to its
sponsorship: a new online film competition for budding filmmakers and
new activities at the festival's family-themed street fair.

 

The 15 Second Clips Competition invited participants to submit video
shorts at Amex's mylifemycard.com site; the competition challenges
entrants to answer the questions featured in the "My Life. My Card." TV

Influentials probably don’t exist at least not in the way you think they do. That’s the hypothesis of Columbia University sociology professor Duncan Watts and University of Vermont assistant mathematics professor Peter Dodds.

It’s easy to spot a typical attendee of the International Bicycle Expo. In knee-length shorts and a ragged t-shirt he wears Band-Aids as medals of honor and takes a comparative analysis of a new brake system more seriously than his stock options. Last September more than 1 200 brands engaged this die-hard crowd with the newest and latest in bicycle engineering sports nutrition gear and accessories at the annual Interbike Expo in Las Vegas. Sports celebrities were on hand to fuel the excitement. Demos including a two-day outdoor event kept the wheels spinning.