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7 Design Considerations for Your Conference Hub

Velvet Chainsaw

High-tech user conferences like Dreamforce and Microsoft Ignite have been designing innovative hub spaces to engage and nurture their top customers for years. Another popular addition is to incorporate demo kiosks where tech providers can share their solutions and grow connections.

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The Top 5 Free Event Apps for 2024

Event Age by Swapcard

After closely evaluating the event app landscape, we’ve handpicked five free event apps that can fit the bill for your conferences, networking events, or exhibitions with. But with so many options available in the market, how do you decide? Our core criteria? Feature-rich event apps that don’t blow your budget!

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How Vox Media Revamped its Ultramodern Code Conference in SoCal

Event Marketer

” –Tara Reilly, VP-Experiential and Partnerships, Vox Media A trio of tech journalists served as event co-hosts this year, replacing veteran Kara Swisher, who stepped down from the role. Taking the reins this year were three new tech journalists, who replaced veteran Code Conference host Kara Swisher.

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Your Trade Show Attendees: What Do They Really, Really Want?

Velvet Chainsaw

Event organizers take heed: It appears that your tech exhibitors continue to be important to your show floor mix. Solving an existing problem is a priority, but attendees are likely more inclined to move that needle in a conference/networking peer experience. And to actually close a sale on site?

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I Think We Cracked the Code on Digital Networking!

Velvet Chainsaw

Then we would transition into whole-group warm-up activities like reading the Golden Rule Haiku together, brainstorming or introducing the topic, and doing a quick tech overview; the warm-up took 10-15 minutes. We opened with the unofficial start that lasted 6 to 7 minutes.

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Guest blog: 3 reasons why we support the Gov’s £250,000 Wi-Fi competition for events

Event Industry News

A poor user experience can reflect badly on your brand and encourage people to use their mobile network to share their disappointments across social media. Europe’s largest tech event left delegates frustrated that the connection was extremely slow and at some points was unable to connect. Conferences. Event Tech.

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Tips to Increase Attendee Interaction?—?GamerConnect 2018 Learnings

Hubilo Blog

In the era of immense unique technologies, gamer enthusiasts were not behind using this tech. To showcase the new gaming tech platform, an event was organised recently by the name of GamerConnect. Gamers come together to experience the high-level gaming tech and also contribute to the same. What’s GamerConnect?

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