With help from Jack Morton Worldwide, IBM India staged the largest live communication event in its history last week--a “town hall” experience for 19,000 IBM employees in India, including 10,000 in Bangalore and 9,000 linked by satellite at sites...
Westins in Australia, Fiji snuff out smoking Starting July 31, the Westin hotels in Sydney, Melbourne and Fiji will abolish all indoor smoking. Outdoor smoking areas will be designated for guests who smoke .....
Whether they call it football, futbol, sakka or soccer, more than a million fans from throughout the world are gathering in Germany for the FIFA (Federation International Football Association) World Cup matches, which begin Friday. High-stakes...
With a population of 1.3 billion, the fastest growing economy in the world and its role as the host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, the People's Republic of China has stepped into the spotlight of special events. Here, two American event producers...
Are you a technical production company that makes event magic? The July issue of Special Events Magazine will include a feature giving event planners tips on working effectively with technical production companies, and we need to hear from you:
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FROM a one-man automotive consulting business launched in Detroit in 1981, AMCI — Automotive Marketing Consultants Inc. — has grown into a $60 million-a-year event production powerhouse in the marketing of automotive brands. Based in Los Angeles...
WHEN it comes to the design of event environments, nothing packs the transformative punch of props. For events today, that transformation tends to take place when prop pieces are used to create evocative seating spaces...
WITH all of the glamour and excitement of the Academy Awards, plus the advantage of benefiting HIV and AIDS service organizations, San Francisco's Academy of Friends' annual Academy Awards Night is an excellent place to watch the Oscar ceremony o...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
MANY have described our “new” Ne...
