Robotics Trends Signs Partnership Agreement With Questex Media
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 8/15/2005
Robotics Trends has enlisted Questex Media Group to design a sensors exhibit and conference for its RoboNexus show. And Robotics Trends will be doing the same kind of favor for the Consumer Electronics Assn. by organizing a robotics conference program and exhibit area for Intl. CES.
The 2-year-old Robotics Trends, led by CEO Eliot Weinman and President Dan Kara, last year signed a partnership agreement to have IDG World Expo help produce its events. Weinman and Kara are the founders of Intermedia Group, a collection of Web sites and events that they sold in 2001 to Alan Meckler's Internet.com, a forerunner of Jupitermedia. During the 1990s, Weinman also founded and sold Software Productivity Group, a producer of publications, conferences and research.
Robotics Trends' inaugural RoboNexus, a hybrid trade and consumer show, drew more than 10,000 attendees to the Santa Clara (Calif.) Convention Center last October. "It was two days of expo. Every kind of robot was there," Weinman said.
This year's Oct. 6–9 event at the larger San Jose (Calif.) Convention Center is slated to draw 15,000 attendees and feature a 50,000 net square foot showfloor with up to 70 exhibitors. Questex, producer of Sensors magazine, SensorsGov and the Sensors Expo & Conference, will produce the RoboNexus Sensors Cluster.
"The whole idea of sensors is critical. They're really the enabling technology for mobile robotics," Weinman said.
He added that Questex could also be enlisted to provide sensors expertise at Robotics Trends' trade-only RoboBusiness Conference & Expo. This year's May 10–11 event drew 40 exhibitors and 800 attendees to the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Cambridge, Mass.
Questex this year collocated its Sensors Expo with SUPERCOMM, the Tradeshow Week 200 show jointly produced by the Telecommunications Industry Assn. and U.S. Telecom Assn. Next year, the event will be collocated with TIA's new event, GLOBALCOMM. The next SensorsGov is set for Dec. 6–8 at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Va.
At Intl. CES, meanwhile, the robotics exhibit area produced by Robotics Trends will be among 13 TechZones dedicated to emerging technologies. The zones will comprise a part of the show known as Innovations Plus, housed at the Sands Expo & Convention Center.
