Conferences

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 […]

Attendee engagement is a must at any B-to-B conference, especially for the millennial generation, those people born between 1980 and 2000 who are showing up in increasing numbers and giving business gatherings a different perspective. When this crowd attends keynotes and breakout sessions, they’ve typically got one eye on the speaker and the other on […]

The thought of somebody like me attending Oracle OpenWorld this past October at first seemed like a stretch. Oracle? Isn’t that some sort of prophesy? And “java,” the programming language, to me typically evokes the smell of strong, sweet black coffee. After all, I’m a business writer, not a developer. I use words, not code. […]

We tapped Cisco, SAP and Microsoft in our December issue to uncover how event marketers are modifying keynote speeches as time and space run tight. But keynotes at meetings are evolving outside the tech industry, too. The keynote presentation at the Pepsi Bottlers Association meeting by Simon Lowden, cmo of PepsiCo, and the 2015 ABC […]

Inside the methodology and the motivation with head of events Scott Schenker The subject line on the email only contained two words: One Microsoft. But the impact of the message would inspire one of the most prolific event organizations in the industry to completely rethink the way it does events. The note arrived in the […]