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It was, by just about any measure, the biggest event of the year. The ceremony that kicked off the Summer Olympics in Athens unfolded in front of 72,000 attendees and four billion TV viewers. Pulling it off took 20 months of planning, 850 full-time workers, and 8,500 volunteers. (And then, 16 days later, there was […]

Boeing had visitors flocking to its booth at the World Airline Entertainment Association show in Seattle, thanks to walking PDAs and an iPod giveaway. Trying to spread the word about Connexion, its on-board high-speed Internet service, Boeing decided to tap the cachet of Apple’s iPod. Attendees who visited with Boeing reps were eligible to win […]

Cisco pulled out all the stops in hyping its exhibit at Supercomm in Chicago, making sure it would generate attention—and booth traffic—among potential clients at the telecom trade show. Three months before the event, the brand sent prospective attendees invitations to its booth and info about Cisco’s pre-show Web site, which listed a schedule of […]

It would have been easy for electronic design automation company Cadence to simply regurgitate its same ol’ trade show booth at the annual Design Automation Conference. Instead, the company rebuilt its experience from scratch, producing a 100-foot-by-100-foot exhibit that was anything but static. Big, bold, and colorful, the futuristic display centered around a series of […]

Michelin brought its own piece of the racetrack to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s Las Vegas trade show. The goal: Support its positioning among automotive experts as the go-to brand of tires. The exhibit’s exterior featured a large, banked section of racetrack, topped with five high-performance vehicles, including a sexy Porsche Carrera GT. Inside, an […]