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B-to-B Events

  • Exhibit Design and Sampling Ideas from the Natural Products Expo West Show

    If your soda doesn’t pack protein and your gummies, creatine, you need to up your snacking game. Protein-fortified everything, products with fewer ingredients, and women’s health products dominated the aisles at the Natural Products Expo 2026, which brought about 60,000 attendees from health and nutrition communities to the Anaheim Convention Center, March 3-6. Consumers are in […]

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  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Tea Time

    If you’ve been engrossed in the “Bridgerton” world like we have, then you’ll know tea time is for more than just enjoying a hot beverage and scones. Thanks to Netflix fans’ rising interest in Regency-era practices and aesthetics, and the universal need for a moment of relaxation, brands are infusing the afternoon tea tradition with […]

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  • Field Report: The 10 Best Exhibits from CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026

    Held every three years, CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026 brought together more than 140,000 construction professionals from 128 countries to the Las Vegas Convention Center and Festival Grounds. The trade show, which ran March 3-7, featured the latest in construction equipment, emerging technologies and solutions for the job sites of the future.  EM couldn’t resist donning our hard […]

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  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Hosts with the Most

    In a content-driven era of experiential marketing, where minutes, if not seconds, count on social media, every word spoken and shared is an engagement opportunity. It’s why brands this year are enlisting star moderators to power up conversations across event main stages, traveling studios, and activations.   An Activation Hype Person Last July, Celsius enlisted […]

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  • The Work-Life Balance Reset, with Melissa Vilders of SAP

    Letting go and trusting the process can be hard for event profs, particularly those who identify as Type A, but Melissa Vilders says they’re essential habits to managing the chaos and stress that events can produce. Over the course of her 15-plus-year career in event marketing, Vilders, director-events strategy and experience for SAP Global Events, […]

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  • Field Report: 15 Best Exhibits from Design & Construction Week’s Last Hurrah in Orlando

    The largest annual gathering of residential construction and design industry professionals, Design & Construction Week (DCW), took over both the North/South and West exhibit buildings at the Orange County Convention Center, Feb. 17-19. It marked one of the biggest trade shows we’ve covered in Orlando, but the roving chapter for this show is coming to […]

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  • What Each Generation Really Wants from B-to-B Events—And What the Data Says

    With b-to-b audiences now comprising four generations of attendees (or five, depending on who you ask), conference organizers have their work cut out.

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  • Steal-worthy C-Suite Event Ideas from the Super Bowl LX Innovation Summit

    Sporting tentpoles like the Super Bowl are at their core a platform for consumer engagement. But the Bay Area Host Committee (BAHC) and the NFL saw an opportunity to engage key stakeholders

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  • 10 Minutes With… Todd Fairbairn, Head of Marketing and Brand at Emotiv Mobility

    “The future is not just what gets imagined. It is what can be built, powered, and scaled,” was the message of Emotiv Mobility, a logistics and manufacturing services provider specializing in sustainable transportation and supply chain integration, at CES 2026. The brand made its official debut at the global event with a 4,000-square-foot exhibit—its first […]

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  • Throwback: Six Trade Show Exhibit Trends from 2016

    Have you dug up your 2016 photos yet? Trade shows were booming, the next generation to be catered to was millennials, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was still around, VR headsets were all the rage, and Pokémon Go was expected to take augmented reality mainstream.  Some things, however, were still relatively the same as they are […]

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