Conferences

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 […]

Hackathons are largely a tech community phenomenon where brands put their latest products in the hands of coders and developers and then ask them to collaborate and compete to create the next killer app. But brands of all kinds are starting to find that it’s not only exciting to put your company’s biggest users on […]

[box type=”coloured” pb_margin_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] In 2013, Microsoft boldly tore down its annual Worldwide Partner Conference to its studs, and reimagined the entire show. The resulting four-day event for more than 14,000 attendees was, by all accounts and metrics, a total success. So what did the company do when it came time to take […]