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Nine Ways to Make First-time Conference Attendees Feel at Home

Event Marketer

And that makes it critical for conference organizers to ensure that their first-time attendees are set up for successparticularly as a tidal wave of newcomers continues to flood the b-to-b event landscape. Post-event interactions should be targeted, too, the experts say.

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

Event Marketer

Valerie Strehle, Senior Director-Global Events, Workiva When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get S**t Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it. The team, created in January 2023, consolidated resources from marketing, sales, and EMEA to form the first-ever global events team at Workiva.

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Small Conference, Big Thinking: How Quest Software Breathed New Life into its Sales Kickoff

Event Marketer

Nine ways the internal event got a festival-inspired upgrade It was out with the old and in with the new at Quest Software’s 2024 internal sales conference in Anaheim, CA, as the brand overhauled the annual event with a festival-inspired theme designed to support its forward-looking company vision.

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Award-winning Davis Events Agency bolsters senior team to spearhead international growth strategy   

Prestige Events Magazine

Gavin Brennan Gavin joins Davis Events Agency from Keywords Studios – a Global gaming tech company now valued at over $2bn and one of the biggest gaming tech companies in the world, and was previously in a senior role in Websummit, leading one of the world’s biggest tech conferences and expos.

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EMS 2025 Opens up with Workshops, Meow Wolf and the 23rd Annual Ex Awards

Event Marketer

On night one, the Hall of Ideas was the place to be for special events, too. Presented by Project, the event once again lived up to its moniker as the Golden Globes of experiential. There was also a mixology class and, back by popular demand, our Vintage T-Shirt Contest returnedand didnt disappoint.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

As Megan Henshall , strategic lead for Google’s global events team and co-founder of The Neu Project, explained, helping this majority-minority community participate fully is not a compliance problem; it is a business opportunity. Accommodation, to be honest, starts before the RFP with internal stakeholders,” DeWitt explained.

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Holograms Beam into Events

Smart Meetings

At UFC’s Sphere event in September, Noche UFC, the UFC’s highest grossing fight and commemoration of Mexican Independence Day, Proto Hologram presented the first holograms of MMA fighters and UFC CEO Dana White, who’s hologram could be heard speaking Spanish, a language the real White doesn’t know.

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