Conferences

We continue our coverage of SXSW 2017 with a look at another handful of killer activation ideas that got our wheels spinning. We’ve continued to see high-tech, hands-on interactives, bold branding and a whole lot of drink tickets and open bars to keep attendees lingering. Don’t miss our full report in the April edition of Event […]

It’s mid-March in Austin, and that can only mean one thing: the South By Southwest festivals and conferences are back (this year March 10-19), bringing insights on the interactive, film and music industries to the Lone Star State. EM is on the ground scouting out unique activations, taking notes on brand takeovers and eating our weight […]

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent might just be one of the fastest-growing tech conferences in the world, increasing from 6,000 attendees at the inaugural event in 2012 to 32,000 at the 2016 show (held Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 in Las Vegas). With a finely tuned work-play balance, the event offers everything from boot camps and […]

Each year, graphic artists, web designers, photographers and filmmakers descend on Adobe MAX, the creativity conference produced by tech giant Adobe.

What began in 1997 as one of the first corporate tech events, Oracle OpenWorld shares credit with a handful of other brands for the rise of b-to-b experiential marketing, the standardization of the annual conference format—and, most of all, the emergence of the proprietary mega-event. Now comes a new chapter as the tech giant’s event […]