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  • Inside HSBC’s Modern Lounge and Event Space at Davos

    Shifting away from high-tech showcases it has created the past few years at Davos, HSBC at the World Economic Forum, Jan. 23-26, took over a boutique shoe shop on a main street in the Swiss city, creating a lounge retreat for the 2,500 attendees of the annual congress. The goal: to engage ceos and leaders […]

  • Why the Conference Keynote is Shrinking

    Remember keynote speeches with 11,000 people streaming into an auditorium to hear a company ceo expound for two hours on its latest products and growth strategy?

  • AT&T Explores the Intersection of Tech and Entertainment at its Two-Day SHAPE Event

    What do you get when the worlds of technology, media and entertainment collide? In the case of AT&T, you get SHAPE, a two-day immersive event that this summer transformed Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles into a high-tech campus for content creators, developers, tech professionals and enthusiasts. Attendees sat in on presentations by visionaries in […]

  • Essential Tips, Trends and Takeaways From the Event Safety Summit

    You don’t have to be an event professional to recognize that there has never been a more critical time to implement and adhere to a set of event safety and security protocols as there is today. In light of incidents like the recent Las Vegas attack, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we take […]

  • 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 […]