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Field Report: Things We’ve Never Seen at Trade Shows Until Shoptalk 2025

Event Marketer

Shoptalk 2025, a global event for retail and ecommerce, owned by Hyve Group, took over the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, March 25-25, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees and more than 225 senior-level speakers from top retailers, including Macys, Inc., Mattel, Canada Goose and P&G. And its huge!

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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. Providing first-time attendees with both a comfortable and valuable experience, however, requires a measured approach.

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Exhibition White City Gears Up for an Exciting New Chapter

Prestige Events Magazine

As a versatile, hybrid venue, Exhibition combines corporate functionality with brand experiences and a dynamic cultural programme hosting 1,165 for conferences and 780 for dinners. Set within a Grade II-listed former Victorian engine house, the venue beautifully merges industrial heritage with contemporary design.

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TerraCycle® launches EventCycle in the UK, providing a nationwide solution for all event organisers – from corporate to private – to reduce their event waste and make them more sustainable

Prestige Events Magazine

It is estimated that millions of events take place annually, including large-scale festivals, sporting competitions, conferences, concerts, local fairs, and more. Every conference, marathon, concert, tradeshow, or wedding produces hard-to-recycle waste that ends up in landfills.

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Event Marketer Launches a BIPOC Mentorship Program to Elevate Careers

Event Marketer

Event Marketer will underwrite the cost of two full conference passes to EMS for mentees selected by the steering committee and will offer a mentorship program discount to EMS for all participants. Get to know more about them here.

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Flagship Convention Spaces Bet On Retail

EventMB

The center complex will feature office buildings, boutique retail outlets, and two 5-star international hotels with 953 rooms. The venue will also feature 25 restaurants, cafes and retail outlets. It will feature a convention center with capacity for over 3,000 delegates along with hotels, public spaces and retail.

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2025: a year when technology will be pivotal and demand growth polarises.

Prestige Events Magazine

2025 will be a year when technology will play a central role in every area of conferences and meetings from operations to marketing. Richard adds more hotels outside London are likely to focus on increasing the conference and training share of their business mix.

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