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Maximizing In-Person Events for Real Business Growth Relationships drive business—period. I recently shared how cultivating connections shaped my career and the response was overwhelming. One key takeaway? The same principles apply to driving revenue. Strong relationships don’t just happen; they’re built. And when it comes to forging meaningful connections,?nothing beats in-person events. According to a?2024 study,?52% of business leaders agree event marketing drives ROI more than any other marketing channel. But let’s be real: Not all events are worth your time or budget. With endless options and limited resources, how do you choose the right ones? How do you ensure they deliver measurable results—not just a pile of business cards? Having spent years as an in-house event expert building event strategies across industries, I’ve tested what works and what doesn’t. Now, being on the other side, as my team scales a?tier-1 event series?over the next few years, we’re applying those lessons to help clients build strategies that deliver long-term results and achieve?real, trackable business outcomes. ???I put together a quick guide on how to pick the right events, maximize engagement and measure success.?Check it out and let me know your thoughts in the comments. B3 Alliance, Inc. Hipercode Kaushik Bhatta - KB Uzair Ahmed

Hackers > Hunger! First time I've seen people coding instead of lining up for food (last pic). That's a great sign, right? Join at 4PM for project demos. Happy hour for all at 5:30. ASAP: https://lnkd.in/eJPbGFK3 #hackathon #innovation #community #ai #nyc #tech #developercommunity --- Incredible work Dave Nielsen & Igor Alekseev + Rita Henderson Kendra Sober Mai-Linh Le Amazing MC-ing by John Willis, and great talks by Patrick Debois Joseph Enochs Lance Martin Mike Xu by the wonderful MongoDB, hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS) @ partners Gradient LangChain Superblocks Fireworks AI + B3 Alliance, Inc. Hipercode

We are one year old! ??? ? Last December, 57 global organizations came together to build, enable, and advocate for open source innovation in #AI. Today, we’re 140+ members strong and are just getting started! Over the last year, we’ve hit the following milestones:? ? ? 93 active projects? ? 1,200 collaborators? ? 12 working groups? ? 5 published AI Alliance Guides to AI?? ? 30 events attended by 20,000 people? ? To commemorate our one-year anniversary, we are committing to scale up the breadth of our reach and impact by 10x going into 2025. As part of this, we’re announcing two new major initiatives – our Trust and Safety Evaluation Initiative and our Open Trusted Data Initiative – to help bolster our work promoting open source ecosystems and ensure that the future #AI landscape is rooted in safety, ethics, and a shared vision for the greater good. 2024 has been a strong first year for the AI Alliance, and we want to thank everyone who made it possible! ? ?? Join us in celebrating our first year and read more about what’s to come:?https://lnkd.in/eBpN_3n8

If you're in San Jose or nearby in the Valley - come by the live demo event we're hosting tonight by Hipercode and the team B3 Alliance, Inc. sponsored by Intel Corporation @ 5:30-9 PM PST! We have incredible partners including Raymond Lo ???? of Intel AI that will be showcasing OpenVINO and AI PCs + Vasudev Lal from Intel Labs, all joining when they can escape the booth + thank you to Adrian Boguszewski that worked on a fun demo of an AI drink creator (both N/A and not). We're proud to have The AI Alliance represented by Sujee Maniyam of Node51 LLC demoing and answering questions about open source data-prep-kit by IBM. A crucial step in data orchestration for the enterprise, requiring more and more compute in a key step for AI deployment. Dave Anderson of EdgeRunner AI will showcase Athena. Athena offers a revolutionary AI solution bringing an AI copilot experience to any Intel client device, helping companies deploy in new and more effective ways. Levon Budagyan, CEO of Waveye will be running a live demo of “The eyes that see in every condition” showcasing their Waveye A1 Radar, and camera that companies can deploy in a variety of verticals for automation and more. Join us as it should be an insightful time + got a taco truck ??. Admission's free, drinks and food included. If you do not like tacos, please do not follow or connect. Join up or at least register to stay in touch. We have many more events coming up through '25 and hope to see you. Link attached + location in the comments.

Had a blast at The AI Alliance event in SF last night @ GitHub! Big thanks to Dave Nielsen and Chris Churilo of Zilliz for organizing a great event. * Amit Sangani of Meta talked about the open-sourcing of Llama and its scale. Meta's utilization of 16K+ massive GPU clusters to push open source models to developers is remarkable, especially considering most incumbents rely on paid cloud services. Kudos, and it shows in Llama's 10x growth numbers + growing partner network. * AITOMATIC showcased the rise of AI agents highlighting the potential for enterprise adoption. Chris Nguyen and Shruti Raghavan discussed the applications across industries, from semi-conductor development, to skills pickup for enterprise continuity. * Zhuo Li gave a talk about how the team at Hyrdox Ai is developing safer AI Model architectures. * Jed Pitera showcased models made by IBM for incredible cases like molecular engineering and new chemicals. + Nice touch with the Github repo spinner giveaways. If you're in the Bay Area, check out the IBM + The AI Alliance booths at AI Conference Tuesday/today and join our event in San Jose on Wed/tomorrow at the AI Summit backed by Intel AI, and check out a demo of IBM's Data Prep tool by Sujee Maniyam! Data cleanup and wrangling for enterprise (large, unstructured) can often require as much - or even more compute - than training itself. The Data Prep demo we'll be hosting tomorrow will demonstrate a myriad of benefits at this crucial step. Links in the comments. #AI #AIAlliance #Meta #LLaMa #AITOMATIC #IBM #IntelAI

We had an amazing time at CVPR with 770+ for networking and demos with Intel AI, Voxel51, OpenCV, Comet, and Women In Tech Regatta. Additionally, 120+ registered for the AI Summit, and experienced the future of Intel AI PC's and OpenVINO. But the fun's not over.. Join us next week in #Toronto for another exciting #AISummit featuring Intel's remarkable Gaudi platform on August 22nd. + Save the date for our upcoming AI Edge and Hardware event in San Jose, CA this September. Ps. To secure your spot, please fill out all details, including your most active Github repo and your goals for the event. We're at capacity for Toronto and being highly selective. Sign up ASAP through the links in the comments. #AI #Toronto #AIPC #AINews #SanJose #SiliconValley #Gaudi + Intel Business, Intel Software Thank you to the team at B3 Alliance, Inc. and Hipercode.

Not many spots left until the wait list kicks in - join for tonight’s event in Seattle to network + check out awesome demos: https://lnkd.in/gZnPHY-5 Have fun / drink / eat (the sliders are great) + especially because Kevin Hartman’s buying get extra and invite your friends ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ.

Attention #Developers: Join B3 Alliance, Inc. & Hipercode for the inaugural AI Summit in Seattle sponsored by Intel Corporation alongside #CVPR2024 on June 17th from 1 PM - 5 PM. Learn more and register here:?https://lnkd.in/gG7MNPB8 Voxel51, OpenCV and Women In Tech Regatta are joining as partners and we have some really exciting things planned, plus you'll have an opportunity to win an AI PC Dev Kit from Intel. Looking forward to meeting you there!? Kaushik Bhatta - KB Kevin Hartman Josh Walters Melody Biringer Uzair Ahmed Jimmy Guerrero Jacob Marks Phil Nelson Vishal Pallerla ?? Paula Ramos Raymond Lo ???? Michael Li

Events aren't dead but they might be broken. Lots of great discussion about event strategy/ROI coming out of both Forrester B2B Summit as well as RSA for the cybersecurity sector. Some great posts earlier today from Jenn Deering Davis and Carilu Dietrich helped me coalesce some thinking here. It feels like we've ramped events back up using the same pre-pandemic playbook and that's not going to fly. Here are a few ideas to make them more meaningful and impactful for everybody (attendees, sponsors and producers). ?? It's an experience, not just an event People will prioritize spending time and money in places where they feel energized, feel seen, feel productive. That means fewer lectures and more interactions. This applies to everything: keynotes to breakouts to parties. For example, instead of the same boozefest at the same old venue, 6sense this week rented out Allens Boots, brought in a lobster roll food truck and treated their customers and prospects to a real experience. They spent money on boots vs booze. People are still talking about it. ?? Prioritize attendee engagement The most buzzworthy events from 2024 so far are those with the least formal agendas. Round tables vs rows in the big room. Prioritization and programming that got people engaging with each other early and often. There are so many ways to do this well. At the Pavilion CMO Summit last month for example, several main stage sessions were followed by 20 minute "table talk" sessions where groups of 8-10 attendees turned insights into practical ideas/next steps they could take home to implement and got to know 8-10 other people vs just staring forward all day. ?? Who attends matters I don't really care how many people attended, how many showed up at your demo theater presentation, how people were at your break-out session. Were they the right people? Were they people with the same roles/experience/problems so that their interactivity was more relevant and valuable? I'll take quality over quantity all day long. ?? Cars vs airplanes We're clearly still willing to do long-distance travel for events, but the bar is very much higher. We know how valuable video conferencing is. Some of the best attended, most efficient events I've seen this year are local not national. With more people working from home, we crave in-person human-to-human connections with like-minded peers. Given the pound of flesh it costs to activate some of the usual national shows, could that $$ be better spent on a roadshow? On taking an incredible experience TO your customers? ?? WE own making this better Yes it's sometimes fun and cathartic to complain about events. I love a good rant. But events aren't going to change in a way we like and want unless we do something about it ourselves. Be specific in your feedback to the conferences you attend and/or sponsor. Take a closer look at how you activate those events as sponsors and how you're prioritizing experiences, engagement and interactivity.??