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Organizers hope a new feature on the official conference app, SXSW GO, can bring the mega South by Southwest festival down to size by customizing experiences for the 80,000-plus participants.
Imagine a Great Wall of China made of colorful parasols and thrilling entertainers--guests saw it all at the 2015 Daffodil Ball from Alison Silcoff Events and partners including the off-premise catering arm of Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth and...
This spooky soiree keyed on a funeral-wake-resurrection theme to raise funds for Montreal's edgy Musee d'art contemporain. The off-premise catering team from Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth treated 650 guests to a menu featuring...
To raise awareness and funds to build the Education Center at The Wall, a proposed facility on Washington's National Mall honoring the sacrifices of veterans of the Vietnam War and other conflicts, Chromis Event Strategies and team ...
To get the housekeeping chores out of the way, the producers of this year's Academy Awards plan to run a list of "thankee" names that scroll across the screen, freeing up winners to give more heartfelt speeches. But will the new plan...
Reporters from throughout the world got a sneak peek at the 2016 Oscars Governors Ball yesterday thanks to the longtime production team of Academy governor Jeffrey Kurland, Sequoia Productions and Wolfgang Puck Catering...
No boring ballroom for this hospital fundraiser. Future Affairs Productions takes a working airplane hangar and transforms it into a stylish safari on the Serengeti for 550 guests--and wins a Special Events Gala Award at The Special Event 2016 in...
In the newly configured and just-released SITE Index, a full 98 percent of respondents said their incentive travel programs are effective. How do they know? Eight out of 10 said, essentially, “I am a believer in incentive travel.”
