Conferences

The invite-only Summit ideas festival brings together a global community of creators, from entrepreneurs to artists to academics, for three days of talks, performances, wellness sessions, art installations and immersive experiences. At its 2018 flagship event in downtown Los Angeles Nov. 2-5, the team amped up the culinary experience for attendees with a dedicated programming […]

Esports is on pace to outpace the NFL, according to a 2018 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Goldman Sachs predicts it will at least reach a comparable size to the NFL by 2022. But despite its growing scope, popularity and its legions of passionate fans, for many brands, esports is still a mystery. This October, Event Marketer […]

At this year’s GitHub Universe, an annual technology event for developers who build software on GitHub’s platform, the goal was to create an experience as innovative, creative and inclusive as possible to reflect the brand’s values. To achieve that, GitHub chose a non-traditional venue, leveraged a customized sponsorship program to enhance attendee engagement and fostered […]

Tech conferences are a dime a dozen, but the leaders of the pack are leveraging creative venues and tactile experiences for attendees that often aren’t so “techy” at all. For brand-new events, it’s all in the details. Square, the mobile credit card payment brand, on Sept. 20 hosted its second Partners Squared Summit at a […]

eBay has hosted seller events since 2002, but three years ago it launched eBay Open, an annual event open to all sellers who use the marketplace platform—from solo operations to large businesses to eBay newbies. This year’s sell-out event, which took place July 24-26 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, offered the more than 2,000 […]