Anna Huddleston

Anna Huddleston is a business events writer based in Las Vegas.
  • Exhibit Design and Sampling Ideas from the Natural Products Expo West Show

    If your soda doesn’t pack protein and your gummies, creatine, you need to up your snacking game. Protein-fortified everything, products with fewer ingredients, and women’s health products dominated the aisles at the Natural Products Expo 2026, which brought about 60,000 attendees from health and nutrition communities to the Anaheim Convention Center, March 3-6. Consumers are in […]

  • How Wood from a Trade Show is Helping LA-area Communities Rebuild

    After a recent trade show, the Los Angeles Convention Center was strapped with more than 8,000 pounds of wood, about 60 percent more than an average LACC event, destined for the landfills. But that wasn’t about to happen. Thanks to a partnership with the ANE Foundation, a local crisis care organization serving vulnerable populations, the […]

  • Field Report: The 10 Best Exhibits from CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026

    Held every three years, CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026 brought together more than 140,000 construction professionals from 128 countries to the Las Vegas Convention Center and Festival Grounds. The trade show, which ran March 3-7, featured the latest in construction equipment, emerging technologies and solutions for the job sites of the future.  EM couldn’t resist donning our hard […]

  • 10 Minutes With… Todd Fairbairn, Head of Marketing and Brand at Emotiv Mobility

    “The future is not just what gets imagined. It is what can be built, powered, and scaled,” was the message of Emotiv Mobility, a logistics and manufacturing services provider specializing in sustainable transportation and supply chain integration, at CES 2026. The brand made its official debut at the global event with a 4,000-square-foot exhibit—its first […]

  • Throwback: Six Trade Show Exhibit Trends from 2016

    Have you dug up your 2016 photos yet? Trade shows were booming, the next generation to be catered to was millennials, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was still around, VR headsets were all the rage, and Pokémon Go was expected to take augmented reality mainstream.  Some things, however, were still relatively the same as they are […]