B-to-B Events

Repurposing trade show exhibit elements year to year by popular definition means salvaging existing building materials and rebranding them to reflect a new theme. At the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers trade show in Las Vegas in July, cigar brand Foundry took repurposing to a whole new level—by blowing up its prior year’s exhibit. […]

Bill Gates. Walt Disney. Steve Jobs. They all created world-famous innovations in a garage. So with a nod to its humble backyard beginnings as the jumping off point, Microsoft used The Garage as inspiration for an activation at The Times Center during Advertising Week, Sept. 29-Oct. 3. The theme highlighted what’s inspiring the brand’s own […]

Ah, Uber. The Silicon Valley-born startup offering a GPS technology, app-driven taxi service has been all over the map this year, and popping up as a key add-on to many event programs and strategies. Take NBC Sports, which in August partnered with Uber on a program to promote the season opener for Barclays Premier League—building […]

American Express Open, the arm of American Express that focuses on financial services for small business owners, on Nov. 3 in New York City held the fourth in a series of CEO BootCamps aimed at educating and inspiring female entrepreneurs. The CEO BootCamps, along with Small Business Saturday, are part of a strategy on behalf […]

Dreamforce 2014 could have been a nightmare for many conference organizers. The annual confab, sponsored by salesforce.com, the world’s largest provider of CRM software, this year drew more than 150,000 registered attendees, another seven million online viewers, 400-plus customer and partner exhibitors and offered 1,450 live sessions. Keynoters included former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham […]