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CES 2026: Personalization, Suites, AI in Design and Skin-deep Engagement
Artificial intelligence lives in everything now, from PCs to robots to cars to emotional support pandas. It’s also allowing experience builders to create the storytelling content and scenery of their dreams. Many booths across the now expansive CES 2026 show floor feature visible credits or disclaimers that the space features AI-generated content and that “characters […]
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CES 2026: Big Changes, Robot Grooves and More from the Show Floor
Across CES 2026, taking place this week in Las Vegas, January 6-9, stages and studios are proliferating and live-wiring content and conversations across the show floor. Mainstays (Samsung, we’re lookin’ at you) have joined a community of showstopper brands creating immersive and exclusive spaces outside the major convention centers. And theme-park-style thrills of the past […]
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Best of B-to-B: Five Event Tactics That Generated Love and Leads in 2025
Between budget restraints, tariffs, shifting trade policies and AI everything, it’s been one hell of a trip around the sun for b-to-b event marketers. But this industry always rises to the occasion, and the meetings, conferences and exhibits delivered in 2025 were no exception. With 2026 just around the corner, we rounded up some of […]
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Big, Bold, and Data-Driven: Trade Show Trends Fueling 2026
Trade shows and exhibits are heading into 2026 with a new level of ambition—bolder storytelling, smarter tech, and deeper attendee insight. From kinetic LED architecture and themed entrances that double as sponsorship goldmines, to actually personalized experiences, to sustainability strategies with real teeth, the year ahead promises a show floor that’s more immersive, more intentional, […]
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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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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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IAAPA Expo 2025: Sights, Sounds and Scents from the Attractions Industry’s Annual Show
The week before Thanksgiving marks IAAPA Expo’s annual return to the Orange County Convention Center and takeover of Orlando’s I-Drive tourist district, gathering the global attractions industry for a week of conference sessions, show floor exploration, networking and celebrations. From Nov. 17-21, more than 40,000 professionals took part in 170-plus education events and walked a […]
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Field Report: How Brands Fused Passion and Business at the 2025 SEMA Show
A drift demo shredding tires to a cheering crowd? Hundreds of meticulously decked-out rides and a wild after-party festival? You’re at the 2025 SEMA Show, the automotive aftermarket global business event, which took place Nov. 4-7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. With more than 153,000 attendees from 140 countries and regions, including 2,300 exhibiting […]
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Heroes and Legends: Six Bold Engagement Ideas from HLTH USA 2025
No Entry. Flesh Eating Mutant Guppies with Perms said a sign on the door next to Registration at HLTH USA 2025 that took place at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, Oct. 19-22. What you wanted was the door where Petunia, the unicorn mascot, was sprinkling magic dust. Now in its eighth year, HLTH […]
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In the Works: Convention Centers Are Expanding to Meet the Next Era of Events
From Louisville to Los Angeles, a wave of convention center expansions is reshaping the North American trade show and convention landscape, adding continuous space, modern amenities, outdoor terraces, and pedestrian-friendly districts to accommodate more flexible, more experiential events. Los Angeles: A $2.6 Billion Expansion to Compete at the Top Tier Construction officially began Oct. […]
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