We’re thrilled to announce that our partnership with Event Marketer is expanding! The Opus team is looking forward to bringing more exciting content and impactful speakers to the stage at the EMS Executive Forum in May, as well as hosting a Strategy Lab. Read on for more details about this continued partnership.

Event Marketer and Opus Agency Expand Multiyear Partnership

First-of-its-kind partnership enters year two with expanded live education, broadened industry collaboration and exclusive research to inform and elevate the event industry’s use of strategy.

NORWALK, CT, FEBRUARY 26, 2019 – Event Marketer and leading experiential marketing agency Opus today outlined plans to bring additional content, collaboration and insights to the event industry in the second year of a previously announced multiyear partnership with Event Marketer.

“Get ready for more information, more insights and more intelligence on event strategy,” says Event Marketer founder Kerry Smith. “As strategy becomes a more critical and purposeful part of experiential marketing, we’re thrilled to work with Opus to deliver more perspective on the topic and additional opportunities for collaboration for Fortune 1000 marketers.”

In support of the continually expanding partnership, this year Opus and Event Marketer plan to collaborate on:

EMS EXECUTIVE FORUM. Designed to accelerate the way brands approach, develop and execute event strategies, the half-day executive seminar on event strategy will return May 14 at Event Marketer’s Experiential Marketing Summit in Las Vegas. Open exclusively to client-side marketers, the Executive Forum features event leadership from brands including IBM, Nestle, YouTube, SAP and more. Learn more and sign up here. The agenda focuses on:

• How innovative companies are using events to transform marketing
• Finding ways to define and capture disparate audiences with tailored brand experiences
• Learning to cut through the noise and ensure brand relevance in a crowded marketplace
• Unlocking proven strategies to utilize storytelling, thought leadership and attendee journey
• Facilitated networking and peer-to-peer learning

“Our first EMS Executive Forum sold out—we welcomed more than 125 brand marketers to dive into the evolving role of event strategy,” says Kim Kopetz, Executive VP of Strategy and Marketing for Opus. “We’ve really only scratched the surface with this dynamic topic. We’re excited to continue the conversation and accomplish even more in the second year of this partnership.”

EMS STRATEGY LAB. To further the conversation on strategy after the Executive Forum wraps, Opus and EM will create an EMS Strategy Lab that Executive Forum attendees can use for peer-to-peer dialogs, whiteboard sessions, networking chats and roundtable discussions. EMS Strategy Lab will be open May 14-16 during EMS, programmed with content as well as some fun networking surprises.

INDUSTRY RESEARCH ON ROLE OF STRATEGY. After launching the inaugural benchmarking study on the role of strategy in event marketing, Event Marketer and Opus are already developing a year-end follow-up research initiative that will monitor the growth, usage and adoption of event strategy across Fortune 1000 companies in 2020. The report will again cover perspectives on a variety of topics essential to strategy

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ABOUT EVENT MARKETER

Event Marketer was founded in 2002 to serve the information needs of strategic brand-side event marketers across the spectrum of experiential marketing. Today it is the world’s largest information resource on experiential marketing, serving more than 100,000 Fortune 1000 marketers. The EM portfolio spans a flagship magazine, exclusive corporate training, the annual Experiential Marketing Summit executive conference, the Ex Awards, the annual Women in Events Week national event franchise, Experiential Marketing Training Camp, the Experience Design & Technology Awards and more. Learn more at www.eventmarketer.com.

ABOUT OPUS AGENCY

Opus Agency is a strategic experiential marketing adviser to some of the world’s most influential brands. We partner with our clients to create remarkable events around the world, tying unforgettable experiences to unmistakable business results. Every idea we implement is guided by our passion to drive our customers’ business success. In the dynamic world of event marketing, Opus specializes in building fully integrated, highly effective teams to support our clients in the execution of their most critical events and experiential campaigns. We have spent 25 years hiring and retaining some of the industry’s most effective, creative leaders to support this model. Opus Agency has more than 400 employees and is a portfolio company of private equity firm, Growth Catalyst Partners. To learn more, visit www.opusagency.com.