Articles Tagged with Tradeshows

April 28, 2010

Trade Show Revival?

5493502 Are trade shows rising from the dead? Last week at CEC and this week at IRA attendance was up dramatically from last year. CEC went from 5,200 attendees to over 6,500. IRA was somewhere north of 12,000 depending who you believe.

Activity on the show floors was strong and sessions were oversubscribed.

Vendors I spoke with said their lead flow exceeded their goals and that they were having productive and valuable conversations. One company even had to FeEx in catalogs after they ran out at end of the first day. Attendees were not tire kickers but buyers looking for solutions.

June 30, 2008

Let’s Get NECC’ed

By Lee Wilson

Old Texas Map ISTE’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC) 2008 is in full swing in San Antonio.

The Education Technology maven’s tribal gathering is bigger than ever. A sign over the entrance reads “The Worlds Largest Education Technology Exhibit.” That’s a Texas sized ambition.

Here are a few impressions from day one. I’ll write a more detailed analysis after the show closes.