Welcome to the 2024 Exhibitor Group Call for Speakers and Session Ideas
You are invited, as an industry professional, to submit one or more session proposals for EXHIBITORLIVE 2025 San Antonio, TX to be held Sunday, March 16 – Thursday, March 20, 2025. All final session and speaker info from EXHIBITORLIVE 2025 can be found here.
- Complete submissions were accepted through Friday, July 26, 2024 (extended from Friday, July 12, 2024). Notifications were sent by Friday, September 27, 2024.
Our events attract corporate event marketing and trade show professionals who seek to enhance their knowledge, skills, and professional networks in order to succeed in their roles and further their professional growth. Find additional info on who attends here.
We invite industry professionals to share insights on the latest trends, new products/technologies as well as practical solutions to common challenges, including:
- Rising costs
- Budget constraints, ensuring future budgets and gaining approval for budget increases
- Time constraints
- Measuring success (ROI/ROO/ROX)
- Staffing shortages
- Onboarding, training and sharing best practices with new hires and those new to the trade show/event marketing industry
- Integrating technology/innovation in exhibit/event
- Effective marketing to attract attendees to exhibit/event (B2B and/or B2C)
- Media buying
- Keeping up with industry trends
- Gaining executive buy-in
- Exhibit design
- Employee/booth staff training
- Sustainability
- Economic uncertainty
- Keeping up with target audience expectations
- Crafting business strategies around event marketing efforts
- Strategies to deal with regulations impacting healthcare industry and industries working with the government
- Using AI for personal productivity
- Leveraging AI in the event industry
- Small booth strategies
We prioritize proposals that are directly applicable to attendees' work, focusing on real-world applications and innovations that can significantly impact their day-to-day operations and strategic planning. In addition, we value proposals that engage session participants through small group exercises, hands-on activities, and other interactive elements.
Proposals will be evaluated based on:
- Relevance to the audience
- Originality and organization of content
- Timeliness and significance of the topic
- Presenter’s knowledge and experience in the subject area
- Exclusivity and freshness of the content
Session Proposal Requirements
- Proposal title
- Proposal category (for examples of each category, refer to the CTSM core required session listing)
- Presentation/session format (options)
- Detailed description of the presentation/session
- Learning objectives
- Information on the primary speaker and any additional speakers or panelists
For more information on the questions in this Call for Speakers and Session Ideas platform, click here.
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Reach out to Monica Myhill, CMP, CRP, CPTD, Chief Learning Strategist and CTSM Director, Exhibitor Group, with any questions.