Running an Experiential Agency: The Hustle Never Stops. It Just Gets Bigger.
Forty CEOs sat around a conveyor belt in a villa above the French Riviera this summer, and the food came to them. BMF had built a custom dining table with a track running down its spine, hidden the kitchen behind the backdrop, and staged the whole thing so each course arrived as theater, a small piece of engineered wonder delivered to some of the most p…
She Lost the Big Award. So She Built Her Own.
Editor’s Note: I have operated BizBash in Canada for more than a decade, long enough to call people like Stacy Wyatt colleagues rather than sources. I am personally appalled by how Canada is being treated right now. My sympathies are with the Canadians who have built this industry in good faith while their neighbors make that harder than it should be.
The Secret Weapon Show Organizers Hire to Make Their Exhibitors Win
Robyn Davis would like to correct a common assumption about what she does, and the correction turns out to be the most interesting thing about her. She does not work with exhibitors directly anymore. What she does is narrower and, in its way, more ambitious: she builds exhibitor-success programming — speaking, training, consulting — that show organizers…
Why we write these long.
When someone is about to hire, pitch or meet you, a title and a quote is all they find. We write these profiles long so the fuller portrait is there to be found, by a planner, a client or an AI tool. We are betting that the fuller portrait is the one that gets found.
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The Crisis Game Plans on GatheringArchitecture.com cover 34 situations, from an attendee collapsing in the middle of a keynote to a fake copy of your event site taking ticket money. Each one lays out what happens, the first moves with their real costs, and what to prepare before the day. The point is to settle in advance who decides and who does what in…
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Introducing Small Bite Architecture
https://smallbitearchitecture.lovable.app/people
Small Bite Architecture: food and drink that tell your story.
If you had company tonight, what would you serve? Small Bite Architecture starts with that question. Every bite fits in one inch, so it has to say who someone is in one bite, two chews. For each leader we profile, we design the small bites and sips we would serve if we threw a party in their honor, and give them a page of their own. The same idea now scales up to events, from COLLECTIBLE New York to the LA Auto Show and WXO London. Watch the two-minute explainer above, then meet the people.
The people with edible profiles
Brian Feit, Stacy Wyatt, Robyn Davis, Greg Hitchen, Wayne Fernandez, Jaclyn Bernstein, Robin Leeds, Ben Erwin, Ken Holsinger, Lea Karam, Don Welsh, Joyce Leveston, Martha Donato, Amy Calvert, Andrew Garcia, Colja Dams, Michelle Mason, Matt Johnson, Julius Solaris, Howard Givner, Mark Brewster, Jacob Cohen Donnelly, Ryan Simonetti, Nicola Kastner, Andrew Roby, Tim Groot, Iain Morrison, Bryan Rafanelli, Terrence O’Dwyer, Victoria Isley, Sasha Frieze, Paul Miller, Jennifer Collins, James Lancaster, David Landgraf, Liz Irving, Richard Attias, Sam Lippman, Doug Emslie, Adrian Segar, Janet Dell, Michelle Metter, Erick Weiss, Philip Dufour, Nicole Peck, Michelle Russell, Derek Pacqué, Lee Brian Schrager, David Allison, Monique Ruff-Bell, Adam Parry, Tahira Endean, Carl Winston, Michael Barnett, Walter Charnizon, Cindy Y. Lo, Marco Giberti, Femi Oke, Hervé Sedky, Dahlia El Gazzar, Greg Topalian, Laurie Kirby, Heather Holst-Knudsen, Miguel Neves, Liz Lathan, J.B. Miller, Holly Peterson