B-to-B Events
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B-to-B Events
Podcast: 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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Watch: January 2026 Experiential News Commentary
From a Netflix Zoltar to an FX beauty lab to a Dogfish Head time bank, we weigh in on this month’s experiential news.
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Field Report: Six Trade Show Booth Ideas from World of Concrete 2026
How much beer was consumed during the recent World of Concrete? That we don’t know, but hopefully it was a measurable KPI. The world’s largest concrete construction and masonry trade show brought together about 48,000 professionals to the Las Vegas Convention Cente, Jan. 20-22, as well as about 1,300 exhibiting companies, including 280 first-time brands, […]
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Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Push Buttons
Despite the rise of touch screens and other sophisticated gaze and gesture technologies, experiential brands this year are choosing analog-style mechanisms for their activations. Think: Push buttons and turn dials that feel purposeful, participatory and nostalgic. But let’s push pause for a moment, and look back at one place where the trend bubbled up. Reddit’s […]
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2026 Perspectives: Brand Marketers Share What’s New, Next and ‘No Thanks’ in B-to-B Events
The class of veteran brand marketers serving as our Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members are some of the industry’s most respected practitioners, and their collective expertise runs the gamut. So with the new year chugging ahead at full steam and events on a continued upward trajectory, we asked the board to share which tactics […]
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