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Experiential in Color Mentorship Q&A: Anna Nicholson and Melencia Lattimore

For Anna Nicholson, it’s a full-circle moment to be participating in the Experiential in Color Mentorship Program. In 2021, she was recognized in Experiential in Color’s first class of rising-star honorees. Four years later, Nicholson is now an event manager at Yahoo and is giving back to the industry, mentoring Melencia Lattimore, meeting coordinator at A-Plus Meetings & Incentives.

Lattimore never had a mentor before, but the opportunity to join the mentorship program felt right, as she was preparing to graduate with her master’s from the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. She was looking for support from an experienced mentor to make industry connections and reaffirm that events was the career path she wanted to follow, and Nicholson was the perfect match.

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Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Event Spas

Gen Z helped put wellness on the map, both as a lifestyle space and a business imperative. In events, wellness has been steadily evolving from a conversation, to an activity, to a full-on sponsorable engagement for brands—this year, among non-endemic companies, especially. Earlier this year, retail and e-commerce professionals were treated to recharge experiences at […]

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Video: Watchlist 2025 Honorees Talk Event Trends, Budgets and Best Practices

We’re celebrating the Watchlist, a collective of brand-side event marketers who are taking experiential to new heights this year. Watch our previously live LinkedIn chat (Nov. 13) with two of our honorees—Jessica Blake, senior director of strategic events at Salesforce, and Justin Tabas, senior experiential marketing manager at Bosch, where we talk strategy, budgets, trends, […]

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Field Report: 11 Memorable Activations from the AWS re:Invent 2025 Show Floor

If you’ve never taken a slide instead of an escalator, you haven’t been to AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ flagship global cloud-computing conference, which took place Dec. 1-5 in Las Vegas. The 14th annual gathering (T3 Expo served as general contractor) brought together thousands of cloud computing experts, builders, partners, and tech enthusiasts to learn […]

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Full Coverage: The 2025 Experience Design Awards

The editors of Event Marketer have unveiled the winners of the 2025 Experience Design Awards, an annual recognition of outstanding event design, innovative builds, interactive tech, and environmental creativity across a wide variety of consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats.

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Experiential in Color 2025: Inside the Program’s New Mentorship Initiative

Since the inception of our Experiential in Color recognition program in 2021, created to shine a spotlight on and help support a pipeline of verse talent and leadership in events, mentorship has consistently risen top as a key driver of new and meaningful opportunities for rising stars in the industry.

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IAAPA Expo 2025: Eight Exhibit Trends from the Business of Fun’s Show Floor

When the global attractions industry gathers under one roof at IAAPA Expo, it’s a bit of sensory overload. Flashing lights and sounds are emerging from arcade games, attendees are screaming on roller coasters and drop towers, popcorn is popping, animatronics are speaking to passersby, and kids are bouncing on inflatables. But that’s what makes this […]

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The 2025 Women in Events Special Report

Bozoma Saint John, one of the most influential chief marketers in recent history, might have lent her vast expertise to the contestants on NBC’s series “On Brand with Jimmy Fallon,” but her presence in prime time is yet another reminder of the disruption the marketing industry sorely needs as women continue to chip away at the glass ceiling.

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The 2025 Women in Events Roundtable

This year’s invitees convene to talk 2026 forecasting, multigenerational superpowers and strategic career moves…

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Women in Events 2025: Meet Meredith Diehn

Our 2025 Women in Events Special Report tackles 2026 forecasting, multigenerational superpowers and strategic career moves. Meet the honorees, and explore this year’s roundtable discussion. The one thing you look for at any event you attend. I always look for posters of the map and lineup or schedule so I can take a picture of them […]

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