Author archive for Rachel Boucher
CES 2026: Personalization, Suites, AI in Design and Skin-deep Engagement
Artificial intelligence lives in everything now, from PCs to robots to cars to emotional support pandas. It’s also allowing experience builders to create the storytelling content and scenery of their dreams. Many booths across the now expansive CES 2026 show floor feature visible credits or disclaimers that the space features AI-generated content and that “characters...
CES 2026: Big Changes, Robot Grooves, and More from the Show Floor
Across CES 2026, taking place this week in Las Vegas, January 6-9, stages and studios are proliferating and live-wiring content and conversations across the show floor. Mainstays (Samsung, we’re lookin’ at you) have joined a community of showstopper brands creating immersive and exclusive spaces outside the major convention centers. And theme-park-style thrills of the past...
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Event Spas
Gen Z helped put wellness on the map, both as a lifestyle space and a business imperative. In events, wellness has been steadily evolving from a conversation, to an activity, to a full-on sponsorable engagement for brands—this year, among non-endemic companies, especially. Earlier this year, retail and e-commerce professionals were treated to recharge experiences at...
The 2025 Women in Events Special Report
Bozoma Saint John, one of the most influential chief marketers in recent history, might have lent her vast expertise to the contestants on NBC’s series “On Brand with Jimmy Fallon,” but her presence in prime time is yet another reminder of the disruption the marketing industry sorely needs as women continue to chip away at...