Few industries are experiencing greater long-term damage from the coronavirus pandemic than the live events industry.

Every significant trade show, exhibition, and conference event scheduled for the rest of 2020 has been cancelled.

THE DESIGN PARTNERSHIP:
FIT Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design &
Medtronic Trade Show Booth, Partnership with Group Delphi

During the 2020 Spring semester, the students of the Graduate Program in Exhibition and Experience Design at FIT, collaborated with the Group Delphi and their client Medtronic on a student project as a part of their Intro to Exhibition Design course.

Highmark Helps Schools Reopen Safely
August 18, 2020. Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In keeping with its commitment to innovation and safety, as evidenced by the recent introduction of its mobile health/safety stations and its longstanding practice of designing exhibit systems architecture that is third-party certified for structural integrity, Highmark has launched a line of safety shields and partitions to provide students, faculty, and administrators additional health protection as they return to school.

As the future of our world and industry remain uncertain amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Experiential Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) is rallying professionals across the globe. Established in 1954, EDPA has provided leadership and advocacy through good times and bad, giving its members an unbroken sense of strength and connectedness.

Reopening the exhibitions industry is not a passive activity. I am so proud of the way our members have stepped up to be proactive in many different areas, which will help to make reopening happen sooner rather than later. I think we were all excited and happy to see that CES plans to be a live show in January 2021.

The EDPA and its member companies realize that our future depends on equality and diversity. As an association, we support calling out and eradicating systemic racism in this country and around the world.

VANDALIA, OH, May 13, 2020 – Exhibit Concepts, Inc. has announced it will hold a free, virtual event on Thursday, May 28, 2020 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST for trade show industry professionals.

ITASCA, IL (MAY 05, 2020): The workers in the exhibit and experiential industry, whether on the trade show floor, in offices, in warehouses or on site to conduct an installation or execute an event – will need to be protected as we re-open our world.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Moss Inc. has expanded its global manufacturing capabilities to include high-speed automated production for Personal Protective Equipment. Moss’s new fleet of proprietary manufacturing technology can produce a total global output of 1.2 Million face masks per day.

How 100 Live Events Companies Banded Together to Become Pandemic Responders

Paco Collazo, former SISTEXPO Sales Director, presents his new event production and stand building company, Happy Projects. Collazo has more than 15 years of experience in the tradeshow and events industry. He has collaborated globally with international brands like Czarnowski, Kingsmen Intl, Impact XM, Elevation 3D and 160/90 (formerly known as IMG Live).

The U.S. Travel Association has begun a grassroots engagement initiative to give a voice to those in our industry who have been directly impacted by this outbreak. You can tell Congress how the coronavirus is directly affecting you by sharing data or anecdotes about declines in your business

DALLAS, 18 March 2020 – Today, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) released preliminary projections of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the U.S. business-to-business (B2B) exhibition industry in the coming months

As the number of reported cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise, employers are increasingly confronted with the possibility of an outbreak in the workplace.

Showdown Displays, the leading North American manufacturer and supplier of visual communications, event and display merchandise, has announced that it has officially been named a Certified Aluvision Partner (CAP).