Conferences
Inside Atlassian’s Touchpoint-rich 2020 Remote Summit
Roughly a month before the 2020 Atlassian Summit, organizers made the difficult choice to shut the in-person conference down. Shortly afterward, the brand decided to transition the event to digital, adjusting its goals along the way to cater to the current climate. The move was announced on March 4, and from April 1-2 (the event’s...
How Facebook and IBM Took Conferences Digital in Different Ways
In the two weeks that it became clear COVID-19 would be choking out events in North America, with travel restrictions and quarantine orders setting off in domino effect, event teams behind their season’s b-to-b events had a big decision to make: to postpone or to pivot. For those companies that pivoted, it was a race...
To Stay or To Go: Brands Weigh the Pros and Cons of Moving a Flagship Conference
Here’s a million-dollar question: Is it time to move the location of your flagship conference? It’s a topic on a lot of event marketers’ minds following Oracle’s decision to relocate its OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas this September, ending the show’s 20-year run in San Francisco. According to the brand, the move is a result...
Inside GitHub Universe’s Secrets to Making Attendees Feel Included
Attendees at GitHub Universe, held Nov. 13-14 at the Palace Fine Arts in San Francisco, could see themselves and celebrate their individuality at every turn of the event. And that was by design. The annual tech show for programmers who use the brand’s hub for code sharing, publishing and networking leaned on the concepts of...