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conventional U.S. Market experience
this July with a newly imagined show aesthetic linking product sourcing and selling, digital engagement and high-profile
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thought leader interaction. AmericasMart LIVE premieres July 11, 2017 with Nate Berkus, Erik Qualman and Sarah Jessica Parker leading a cast of globally celebrated thought leaders in a new multimedia Market experience.
AmericasMart LIVE will be the source for up-to-the-minute access to new-and- next ideas in a time of unprecedented retail disruption. “For all those choosing to do business with us here this summer, the July Market experience will be both evolutionary and revolutionary,” says Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr. vice chairman, president and chief operating officer.
“You will find a show environment both familiar and unexpectedly new in a media- and information-rich setting that integrates traditional product pursuit with immediate access to highly relevant new-and-next ideas, insights and business knowledge from internationally celebrated voices of huge influence.”
Design tastemakers Berkus and Parker leading a cast of globally celebrated thought leaders in a new multimedia Market experience. Together with digital media visionary Qualman, they will help make AmericasMart LIVE the source for up-to-the-minute access to new-and-next ideas in a time of unprecedented
retail disruption.
The can’t-miss speakers are the highlight of comprehensive AmericasMart LIVE
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programming that informs and educates retailers and designers about the trends and innovations they need to grow their businesses. The excitement isn’t just on stage. Experts from across the design universe—Brian Patrick Flynn, Jenny Heinzen York and Patti Carpenter—will present live show reports and interviews with tastemakers that will air between demos, thought leader presentations,
and spotlight videos featuring product, retailers, showrooms and trends broadcast throughout the AmericasMart campus and on its digital and social networks.
Changing the paradigm of the Market experience
Atlanta will transform the
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