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How Wiz Traded Panic for Play at Cybersecurity Trade Shows

The doom of cyberattacks is real at security and tech trade shows, where dark colors and actors dressed as hackers dominate the show floor. It’s high stakes, high stress all the time. Wiz, a cloud-security company, flipped the script on panic with a booth drenched in pinks and purples and activations that kept chief security […]

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Four Insights on SXSW’s Evolving Brand Activation Landscape for 2026

SXSW has long served as an annual barometer for the experiential marketing industry with its roster of brand activations throughout the city of Austin helping to inform spending forecasts and tactical trends. The soon-to-be, 40-year-old tentpole was an early example of festivalized conference experiences, and has served as a breeding and proving ground for earned […]

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Watch The Brief, Live! August 2025 Edition: Experiential News & Ideas

Event Marketer’s Rachel Boucher, head of content; Kait Shea, senior editor and manager-digital; and Juanita Chavarro Arias, managing editor, recap and provide commentary on some of the top experiential marketing stories, ideas and trends of the month. Think: the coquette aesthetic, hatching eggs and kidney pledges. New episodes drop monthly. Subscribe to The Brief LinkedIn […]

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Five Lessons from CollegeVine’s AI-powered Vineyard Summit in Chicago

In the world of higher education, AI is typically applied to learning and development initiatives, but overlooked when it comes to the day-to-day operations that keep universities running. So CollegeVine, a company that uses a network of students, data and AI agents to alter how institutions recruit and retain pupils, aimed to flip the script […]

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10 Minutes With… Debra E. Smith, Conferences and Events Manager at Elanco Animal Health

For VMX 2025, the premier veterinary conference, Elanco wanted to reinforce its position as a global innovator in animal health with a multi-exhibit experience that showcased new products and connected with veterinary professionals in personalized, memorable ways. Designed for education and engagement, the 50×60-foot corporate exhibit featured product-focused zones with hands-on engagements and custom workstations, […]

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From Chatbots to Agents and Beyond: How AI is Transforming Trade Shows in 2025

The use of AI is evolving at neck-breaking speed across every aspect of our lives, rapidly changing how we plan, work and even think. In trade shows, this evolution is also happening fast, with AI powering everything, from access to knowledge to agents that can be built with no coding skills. Here’s what we’re seeing […]

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Three Production Design Ideas from a Live Podcast Show

With the rise of high-impact general sessions, like keynotes at Sphere that offer sleek but immersive presentations powered by LEDs, event marketers are raising the bar on how to produce engaging main stage experiences. One medium we’ve been combing for best practices? Live podcast productions, where in-depth and in-person conversations are “must-see” by nature. The […]

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Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Themed Learning

Gone are the days of one-way conversations. In the post-COVID, value-for-time world that event marketers are building experiences in, themed learning is improving engagement and retention. And the bolder, more playful the theme, the better. Let’s take a look at themed learning in action. Cinema Morgan Stanley at Work caught our attention with an […]

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Rachel Langley

Good job opportunities build careers, but great mentors shape them. Before she managed multi-million-dollar event budgets for Fortune 500 companies, Rachel Langley took her first career leap at the British-American Chamber of Commerce.

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Three Things We Loved About Morgan Stanley’s Cinema-inspired Activation at Thrive

Workplace benefits are critical to attracting and retaining top talent in just about any industry, but the topic isn’t typically enthralling. So at Morgan Stanley at Work’s Thrive 2025 conference, which educates human resources professionals on the brand’s employee benefits solutions, the company added a little Hollywood magic to its presence on the show floor. […]

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