Conferences
Six B-to-B Event Insights from Year Two of eBay Open
With its Fill Your Cart with Color campaign as a backdrop, eBay hosted for a second year its largest seller event, eBay Open, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, July 25-28. The event grew nearly 50 percent year-over-year at 1,400 seller-community attendees, and evolved from 2016 thanks to a stream of feedback—mirroring the backbone of...
Cisco Turns Unsung IT Heroes into Caped Crusaders at the Largest-Ever Cisco Live
In a world where IT professionals are often the unsung heroes of an organization, Cisco flipped the script, transforming thousands of tech experts into superheroes—if only for five days. The brand’s flagship event, Cisco Live (this year, June 25-29 in Las Vegas) was the brand’s largest to date, offering 28,000 IT pros the education, training...
Six Tips for Reimagining B-to-B Events From the Offbeat C2 Montréal Conference
Acrobats and clowns perform between sessions. Brainstorming discussions are held in chairs suspended 30 feet in the air. A vintage Airstream trailer serves as a networking venue. Welcome to C2 Montréal, a three-day conference that aims to merge commerce and creativity by putting attendee connections at the center of the action. Held this year May...
Nokia Unveils a Virtual Reality Experience at Cannes Festival of Creativity
Nokia Technologies hit the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity with what its cmo Rob Lebras-Brown calls a “perfect marketing storm”—a virtual reality experience that showcased its new suite of digital health products and the viability of VR itself as a marketing platform.