B-to-B Events
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B-to-B Events
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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Introducing the 2026 Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board
To ensure that the Experiential Marketing Summit is evolving to meet the needs of modern event marketers, we’ve selected a new class of leading brand marketers to serve as Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members for the next two years. We are proud to include this esteemed group in our EMS “Brain Trust” and can’t […]
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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 No. […]
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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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10 Minutes With… Jon Wolff, Senior Global Events Manager at Lenovo
On the agenda: trade show strategy for 2025, engagement tactics, budget (and tariffs impacts) and “intentional design.”
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Six Travel Hacks from Trade Show and Event Pros
When Visit Indy wanted to make a lasting impression on event planners attending industry gatherings, the organization came up with a Comfort Kit, a branded envelope containing thoughtful items that can significantly improve travel and on-site experience. From Tylenol to hair ties and rehydration powder, it was all the small things that make a big […]
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Experiential Trend of the Week: Relaxed Connection
From industry offices designed to be more “social,” to tentpoles like Cannes Lions that are changing the game on networking, environments for business connection today are casual, comfortable and creative. And event marketers are digging designs and tactics that deliver on it all. Indeed, the sparkling French Riviera with its chic, laid-back vibe continues to […]
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Quest Shares Pro Tips on Leveraging a Host City as an Event Theme
When it comes to choosing a host city, some event marketers are taking a cue from the real estate industry’s No. 1 priority: location, location, location. Consider Quest Software, which this year presented NXT, its annual internal sales kickoff, in Boston at the historic Park Plaza Hotel. The locale wasn’t just selected out of convenience […]
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