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B-to-B Events
The Best Bites: How Demos Cooked Up Brand Engagement at KBIS 2025
“We’re breaking the bank here with 30 dozen eggs,” joked Nick Ritchie, executive chef for the LG Signature Kitchen Suite (SKS) as he mixed a batch of Grammy’s Brownies in all their chocolatey gooeyness to showcase the brand’s new transitional wall oven series. LG revealed new branding for SKS at the 2025 National Kitchen & […]
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Five Ways Exhibitors at Toy Fair Stood out in a Sea of Playfulness
The first visual we laid eyes on at Toy Fair 2025 in New York City, held at the Javits Center, March 1-4, was a larger-than-life Rubik’s cube suspended in the air and surrounded by disco lights and bumping music. There was something about a handheld toy that has transcended generations, blown up in epic proportions, […]
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How Adyen Leaned on its Partner Ecosystem to Entice Retailers at NRF 2025
If you’re going to demonstrate the power of “unified commerce,” you’ve got to have a unified event strategy to match. Such was the case for financial technology platform Adyen, which, with the help of its merchant partners, leveraged a widespread presence at NRF 2025 to give customers and prospects hands-on experience with its omnichannel payment […]
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Swag-tivities
Event marketers are more conscious than ever about excessive waste, and that has led to all-new thinking, and engagement strategies, around a quintessential event and trade show activity: the giveaway. In fact, it’s a conversation that event marketers have been locked in for the better part of a decade—remember Hershey’s Take5 Swag Exchange campaign at […]
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Meet the 2025 B-to-B Dream Team
It began with a mission: “If Event Marketer started its own brand, here’s who we’d hire.” And in the nine years since we reimagined our Dream Team recognition program to focus solely on b-to-b event marketers, we’ve established quite the corporation. This year, we add 12 more professionals to our roster, and we’re introducing you […]
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Sweet Relief: Eight Ways to Build a Zen-inspired Brand Experience
The world could use a collective deep breath right about now, and brands are responding with Zen-inspired experiences designed to put consumers at ease. As marketers take cues from the sect of Buddhism, which focuses on meditation, mindfulness and maintaining a state of calm, they’re creating sanctuaries where attendees have an opportunity to get present […]
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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle
When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get Shit Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it.
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Nine Ways to Make First-time Conference Attendees Feel at Home
Executives from Cisco, Salesforce, Dell, Webflow and Workiva share their top tips for rolling out the welcome wagon.
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Five Insights on Designing Impactful Keynote Programs from Panasonic at CES 2025
In a dark ballroom at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, a spark of light streams across the screens. The host, actor Anthony Mackie, approaches center stage and holds up an item: “Panasonic’s story began over a century ago with this—the double socket. This is the spark that ignited decades of innovation and passion, comfort […]
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As Trade Shows Embrace Influencers, Exhibitors are Leveling up Engagement
It wasn’t too long ago that social media influencers weren’t even considered media at trade shows and had a hard time getting press passes. Now its crucial to connect influencers and exhibitors, and the National Hardware Show, taking place March 18-19 in Las Vegas, is doing exactly that with its new NHS Influencer Summit. Building […]
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