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HP’s ‘Nominations’ Lead to Conference Attendance Lift
The goals were clear: Hewlett-Packard was looking to refocus the premier conference for its Europe, Middle East and Africa regional customers, and, perhaps more daunting, reduce the event’s cost by 25 percent. The solution was HP Technology@Work, a new, three-day conference in Berlin designed to cultivate and improve relationships with IT decision makers. To build...
IBM Hosts a 19K-Person Town Hall Meeting in India
It was IBM’s largest live event ever: a town-hall meeting in India that brought together 19,000 people. In addition to bringing in an A-list speaker roster that included India’s President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and IBM ceo Sam Palmisano, the company linked four separate groups of attendees together for the daylong event—10,000 at the host facility...
Nintendo Takes Over Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre
It has been a big couple of years for the major players in video games. On the heels of Microsoft’s Xbox megalaunch a year before, Sony rolled out its highly anticipated PlayStation 3 in 2006. Which meant that when E3 came around, Nintendo needed to separate itself from those rivals for the introduction of its...
Sony Targets Gamers with the Playstation Experience
Sony took its PlayStation and PSP gaming systems out on the road and into the hands of gaming enthusiasts with the PlayStation Experience, a 45-week national tour targeting large-scale lifestyle events such as auto races and music festivals. The 72-foot customized tractor trailer was decked out with 26 gaming stations, custom-built stainless steel gaming kiosks,...