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  • Inside the Unconference: Lessons From Three Offbeat B-to-B Events

    If you’ve ever attended a session taught by a cowboy poet around a campfire, spent hours affixing stickers to a crowdsourced art installation or pitched a session with a Post-it note, then you’ve probably been to an unconference. While not a new category of b-to-b events, it’s a growing one fueled, in part, by a […]

  • Seven Ways Tech Conferences are Modernizing the B-to-B Experience

    When it comes to business meetings and events, it just doesn’t get any bigger than the technology conference. As some of the longest-running shows in the event industry, these super events occupy the largest footprints, attract the most number of attendees, have the deepest budgets and deliver the largest ROI. As technology changes, however, with […]

  • Three Ways VR Revved Up NetApp Attendees

    Virtual reality isn’t just for consumer activations. More and more companies are incorporating VR into their b-to-b conferences and events as a way to engage attendees and deepen their connection to content. NetApp, a data management company specializing in cloud and flash technology, used VR to create a fresh experience around Formula 1 racing for […]

  • Eight Insights on How to Succeed in the B-to-B Event Marketing Space

    In our April issue, we will feature our picks for the 2016 B-to-B Dream Team—the event marketers we’d hire if we were building our own brand. From organizing global conferences to handling trade show strategy and overseeing internal meetings, this year’s Dream Team does it all and does it so well, they’re setting the standard […]

  • Three Ways Oracle Maximizes the Reach of OpenWorld

    Oracle OpenWorld is more than just a mammoth technology conference that takes place over five days each October in San Francisco. According to Steve D’Alencon, senior director, global advertising at Oracle, it is a “waypoint” on a 365 day a year continuum of interactions with Oracle’s customers, prospects and partners. Furthermore, only a small percentage […]