Technology
Wells Fargo’s Social Media Hub Draws Golf Fans
The social media hub at the Wells Fargo Championship, a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour held in early May in Charlotte, NC, this year generated 40,000 social engagements by fans and 310 million impressions throughout the week. It has been hailed by golf’s powers that be as a best practice for amplifying the...
Why the ‘Event Technologist’ Role is Gaining Momentum
In the advertising world, technologists are co-leading creative teams and offering expertise as developers and “digital storytellers.” In events, technologists’ roles are running deeper. While they used to remain behind the scenes managing the network or the app, today they have a front-row seat, collecting and interpreting analytics, live wiring experiential touchpoints and inventing experiences, too....
How the Future Show Keeps Under Armour Sharp
Few know about it. But those that do say it’s an experience unlike anything in the industry. Welcome to Under Armour’s annual Future Show, a two-day competition held each October at the company’s global headquarters in Baltimore in which inventors large and small pitch their ideas as the latest, greatest athletic must-have. It’s been called...
EventTech 411: Registration and Guest Tracking Solutions
From the creators of EventTech, the industry’s largest learning lab on event technology and live events, we bring you EventTech 411, our monthly roundup of new and cutting-edge event technologies. In this installation, we look at attendance and ticketing solutions for event organizers. Whether you’re trying to retrieve lost registrants, re-engage past attendees or efficiently...