Objective of Event: Motivate the sales force or sales channel

Toyota’s national dealer events are known for their high production value, but one recent meeting, in Las Vegas, may have raised the bar. The set design, video presentations, speeches and entertainment all helped celebrate recent successes and convey the sense of a promising future. An ever-changing set, designed by Emmy Award winner Steve Bass, was […]

At its Global Leadership Conference, Starbucks focuses on strengthening connections with the 10,000-plus store managers and regional managers who serve customers daily. For a recent four-day conference in Houston, the brand’s goals were to create unforgettable experiences that reinforced the company’s message of leadership across the business and inspire the team to take the next […]

I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, is one of the best events marketers have never heard of. To accommodate the thousands who want to go to each year but can’t—recent I/Os have sold out all 6,000 seats in less than 30 minutes—the event has become much more digital. The conference now reaches millions of developers, virtually, […]

With its yearly Global Sales Experience—or GSX, as it’s better known—Cisco has evolved what was once a one-and-done annual event into a case study for maximizing the reach and impact of live+digital experiences. One recent GSX welcomed 20,000 attendees: 5 percent were in broadcast locations, 75 percent were in conference room viewing locations and 20 […]

At its invitation-only sales leader summit, Avaya aimed to create an immersive space that provided all attendees with a clear line of sight to its visual display of large-format video and graphics. The result was a multi-faceted visual canvas with a custom curved widescreen projection field, along with two outboard projection screens with 21-foot LED […]