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

Event Marketer

Event Marketer’s 2025 B-to-B Dream has been unveiled. 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. Welcome to the Dream Team.

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SEPHORiA 2024: How Sephora Transformed a Flagship Event into a Global Property

Event Marketer

Sephora’s flagship event was always meant to travel to different U.S. markets, and this year, SEPHORiA made its way to Atlanta for the first time. host city that aligns values with Sephora,” says Kate Biancamano-Brown, senior director-event and experiential marketing at Sephora. We choose a [U.S.]

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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

Your attendee travelers are eager to hit the road, but thanks in part to economic challenges like inflation, companies are cutting back on T&E. Those able to travel freely are combining remote work with longer leisure trips. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking.

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Race for talent to shape events industry in 2025, reveals IBTM World Trends Report

Prestige Events Magazine

Whether this be older people looking for a new career or people travelling around the world for a new opportunity, the industry is looking at every area of society to find innovative and creative talent. It is this skill for adaptability that is driving growth in the global events market.

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End Game: How Event Marketers are Keeping Attendees from Leaving Early

Event Marketer

Over the years, event marketers have relied on traditional tactics to sustain event engagement, like wrapping the event with a concert by a Grammy Award-winning artist or offering major incentives like free travel. Event marketers often operate under the assumption that attendees need more to see value.

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

Event Marketer

In our registration flow, we included our definition and what we consider early in career isany customer, partner or prospect who has less than seven years in their industry, in their business or in their role, says Britney McDaniel, global event content manager at Cisco. So it’s not [new] in our industry, but in their industry.

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Post-COVID Storytelling: How Marketers are Activating Their Brand’s Stories in the Year Ahead

Event Marketer

The most memorable events immerse attendees into a story, make them part of the story and send attendees home feeling like they have a better understanding of the story the brand is trying to tell. It’s that connective tissue that holds your event together. Mark Henneberger , Vice President of Events Solutions at Walmart.

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