B-to-B Events
From Chatbots to Agents and Beyond: How AI is Transforming Trade Shows in 2025
The use of AI is evolving at neck-breaking speed across every aspect of our lives, rapidly changing how we plan, work and even think. In trade shows, this evolution is also happening fast, with AI powering everything, from access to knowledge to agents that can be built with no coding skills. Here’s what we’re seeing...
Introducing the 2026 Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board
To ensure that the Experiential Marketing Summit is evolving to meet the needs of modern event marketers, we’ve selected a new class of leading brand marketers to serve as Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members for the next two years. We are proud to include this esteemed group in our EMS “Brain Trust” and can’t...
Three Production Design Ideas from a Live Podcast Show
With the rise of high-impact general sessions, like keynotes at Sphere that offer sleek but immersive presentations powered by LEDs, event marketers are raising the bar on how to produce engaging main-stage experiences. One medium we’ve been combing for best practices? Live podcast productions, where in-depth and in-person conversations are “must-see” by nature. The No....
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Themed Learning
Gone are the days of one-way conversations. In the post-COVID, value-for-time world that event marketers are building experiences in, themed learning is improving engagement and retention. And the bolder, more playful the theme, the better. Let’s take a look at themed learning in action. Cinema Morgan Stanley at Work caught our attention with an...