How Sustainability, Health Foods are Inspiring 2022 Event F&B
What’s cooking at the best events this year? The National Restaurant Association has released its “What’s Hot: 2022 Culinary Forecast,” which reveals that the F&B industry is choosing to reset in 2022. What was in 2021 an “off-premise” and “meal-kit” focus is this year centered around sustainability and health and immunity-boosting foods. The association partnered...
Intel Had Always Planned for a Digital-first CES: Inside its Pandemic-era Strategy
Despite many brands pulling out of their planned physical experiences at CES’s grand return to in-person amid the omicron surge, Intel’s hybrid strategy for the show served as a lifeline that allowed the brand to stay the course on-site and implement a “digital-first live experience, with minimal on-site staff” that was in keeping with its...
A Downsized CES Didn’t Deter These Brands from Engaging Attendees in Person
Two weeks before the highly-anticipated in-person return of CES. Jan. 5-7, a wave of major players began backing out of their in-person presence at the show, citing concerns around the Omicron variant. Amazon, Meta, T-Mobile, Twitter and Google were some of the first to pull out, with T-Mobile stating that, “While we are confident that...
How Nine Brands Painted the Town Red at Art Basel Miami Beach
On the tails of successful shows in Switzerland and China in 2021, international art fair property Art Basel wrapped the year with a bang at its Miami Beach edition, Dec. 2-4, marking the triumphant return of the star-studded, ostentatious event, which was canceled in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. Some 60,000 people swept...