Conferences

  • Survey Says: How One Event Turned AI-powered Feedback into Action

    What if you could talk about your event experience with an AI agent on your cab ride to the airport? For its 2026 Spring Summit, Builder Innovator pivoted from its traditional survey strategy to using AI-powered surveys and conversational AI agents, powered by Marcus AI. For a hosted-buyer construction event, zeroing in on the right […]

  • Inbound to Unbound: HubSpot Rebrands its Flagship Event

    After 15 years operating as Inbound, the annual show has been rebranded as Unbound, a shift HubSpot implemented to keep pace with a rapidly changing business landscape, and its own evolution from marketing platform to “agentic customer platform.”

  • Hospitality: Should You Take Your Attendees to a Theme Park?

    You’ve gathered your company’s top sellers and clients in one location… what are you going to do next?

  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Eye Contact

    This year, storytelling has propelled from buzzword to standard practice. As event marketers lean into it for their messaging to deepen relationships with audiences and “drop” products into real lives, human faces are serving as design themes across show floors. Let’s take a look at how eye contact is the new eye candy. But first, […]

  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Delivery Design

    Experiential marketers are the bosses of the attendee journey, but this summer, we’re seeing a burst of creative attention around delivery mechanisms. Think: Content that is handpicked (literally), whirly entrances for contestants, and behind-the-curtain serves. Contactless delivery is a present-day phenomenon, and experiential marketers are kicking it up a notch—leaning into an impersonal delivery with […]