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Event Marketer Launches a BIPOC Mentorship Program to Elevate Careers

Event Marketer

ABOUT EVENT MARKETER Event Marketer was founded in 2002 to serve the information needs of strategic brand-side marketers across the spectrum of experiential marketing. Today it is the world’s largest information resource on face-to-face marketing, serving an audience of more than 100,000 Fortune 1000 marketers.

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Hosted-Buyer Events for Meeting Planners Are Hot

MeetingsNet

And while IMEX Frankfurt, the industry event launched by Ray Bloom in 2002, has been eclipsed in size by the IMEX America show that Bloom and his daughter Carina Bauer started in 2011, the European event held each May still draws more than 12,000 attendees and hosts 63,000 buyer-supplier meetings.

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New Venues in Las Vegas for Summer 2025 Meetings and Events

BizBash

location, which launched in 2002. Designed in collaboration with Rockwell Group, the space features a Mediterranean-inspired aesthetic with mosaic tiles, a dramatic fireplace, and a backlit bar evoking the Greek evil eye. Zaytinya also offers a cocktail program that emphasizes bold regional flavors.

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Taylex Group Celebrates 18 Year Anniversary

Exhibitor Magazine

From our humble beginnings in 2002 as a. Taylex Group is celebrating 18 years at the heart of the live events, exhibitions, and brand experience world.

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Hospitality Pioneer and Philanthropist Harris Rosen Passes Away

Smart Meetings

In 2002, he donated a 20-acre site at the foot of Rosen Shingle Creek alongside $10 million to the University of Central Florida to develop the Rosen College of Hospitality Management , which has gone on to rank as number two among hospitality colleges worldwide.

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A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Marin Bright

Smart Meetings

Marin Bright often told the story of how she launched the meetings and events industry’s first lifestyle magazine in 2002, a few months after the devastating attacks on 9/11 and the downturn in the travel industry.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. Emotions have driven human beings for millions of years, our institutions are thousands of years old, and we can’t keep up with our advances in technology. And so it goes with meetings. It’s why businesses sponsor meetings.