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A 4th of July Special: Could The Hors d’Oeuvre Tray Be the Most Powerful Platform at Your Event?

With new AI design tools sometimes the smallest thing in the room makes the biggest impression.

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David Adler
Jul 04, 2025
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It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t blink. It doesn’t ask for your badge. And yet, in the lexicon of event influence, it may now be the most emotionally potent object in the room. Not the keynote stage. Not the branded arch. Not even the perfectly lit step-and-repeat. It’s the tray.

Specifically, the hors d’oeuvre tray. A vessel of curation. A floating editoria…

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