Conference & Tradeshow 2009

Event Solutions Editor and Education Director Rachel Globus is a frequent speaker on social media and marketing for events. On June 23, she’ll speak on how event pros can leverage social media to strengthen their marketing and grow their businesses for The Social Media Workshop, a one-day seminar taking place in the Los Angeles area.

Event Solutions magazine is proud to announce the recipients of the 2009 Spotlight Awards. These event professionals and companies were selected as finalists by a panel of their peers. Voting online by the event community determined which of the finalists would receive the coveted Spotlight Award statue. The recipients were announced on Wednesday, February 25 at the Glow and Plumes awards event in DreamVision Studios, Las Vegas.

Laura Schwartz, former White House director of events for the Clinton administration and national media personality, keynoted a high-energy Grand Opening Session on Monday. To a standing-room-only crowd, Schwartz shared her seven power tips for leveraging networking to achieve business goals:

The Conference & Tradeshow is still a week away. But if you’re itching to see what new ideas the exhibitors have to offer,
here’s a taste.

So many sessions, so little time! Our speakers are nationally and internationally known event leaders. We could tell you why you should go to their sessions, but instead, we challenged Conference ‘09 presenters to give us one good reason why you should come to their seminar. Here’s what they told us.