Conferences

The big squeeze: booming economy + increased experiential spending It’s a problem most industries would love to have—so much business that there aren’t enough places to put it in. For b-to-b event marketers, that means convention centers in major cities are already booked up five, 10, as much as 15 years in advance. Key dates are […]

Experts weigh in: How to navigate a tight venue market and secure a space for your events 1. Brace for sticker shock, especially the hotel rates. “Not only is the event industry strong, but transient business demand is very high in most major cities, too,” says Michael Hughes, managing director-research and consulting at the Event […]

The Experiential Marketing Summit kicked off this year with a few out-of-the-box activities designed to show off our beautiful host city of San Francisco—and give event marketers that all-too-rare opportunity to hang out with one another and not be working on an event. At 6:30 a.m. on Monday, May 11, more than 17 intrepid attendees […]

Beatport, a 10-year-old online music service brand known as the “home of electronic music,” reintroduced itself at a festival where music and technology collide—South by Southwest. With a focus on forging b-to-b connections, the brand, whose parent company SFX Entertainment is a leading producer of live events and media content, took over a property in […]

While many event activations are designed to energize and excite, Delta’s interactive installation at the TED 2015 Conference, which took place March 16 to 20 in Vancouver, Canada, had the opposite intent—to slow people down as a way to enhance their productivity. The installation, inspired by TED speaker Pico Iyer and his book “The Art […]