Conferences

August 2, 2021

How Major Fall Conferences are Betting on the Return of In-person Attendance

This fall, major user conferences, trade shows, music festivals and other gatherings are banking on attendees being ready to return to in-person events. For some, it’s a return to business as usual, with the events looking and feeling as they did in fall 2019. Others—like Salesforce—see it as an opportunity to reset and come back...

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August 3, 2020

Inside Atlassian’s Touchpoint-rich 2020 Remote Summit

Roughly a month before the 2020 Atlassian Summit, organizers made the difficult choice to shut the in-person conference down. Shortly afterward, the brand decided to transition the event to digital, adjusting its goals along the way to cater to the current climate. The move was announced on March 4, and from April 1-2 (the event’s...

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June 29, 2020

How Facebook and IBM Took Conferences Digital in Different Ways

In the two weeks that it became clear COVID-19 would be choking out events in North America, with travel restrictions and quarantine orders setting off in domino effect, event teams behind their season’s b-to-b events had a big decision to make: to postpone or to pivot. For those companies that pivoted, it was a race...

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April 20, 2020

To Stay or To Go: Brands Weigh the Pros and Cons of Moving a Flagship Conference

Here’s a million-dollar question: Is it time to move the location of your flagship conference? It’s a topic on a lot of event marketers’ minds following Oracle’s decision to relocate its OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas this September, ending the show’s 20-year run in San Francisco. According to the brand, the move is a result...

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December 23, 2019

Inside GitHub Universe’s Secrets to Making Attendees Feel Included

Attendees at GitHub Universe, held Nov. 13-14 at the Palace Fine Arts in San Francisco, could see themselves and celebrate their individuality at every turn of the event. And that was by design. The annual tech show for programmers who use the brand’s hub for code sharing, publishing and networking leaned on the concepts of...

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