IBEX

Events include Soundings Trade Only’s 40th Anniversary Gala.

The seminar will be held Sept. 30 and is expected to sell out.

Seventy international companies from 23 countries will exhibit at the show.

The all-day event has content designed for industry marketers.

A new “tech and tool lab” and other unusual seminars will be among this year’s offerings.

The event will feature a keynote about global business conditions, as well as the Innovation Award ceremony and other presentations.

Entries can be submitted until August 30.

In addition to three exhibit halls, IBEX will have special events, country pavilions and specialty pavilions.

The all-day “super session” will focus on best practices in workforce solutions.

Infinity Woven Products’ “poker run” at IBEX used gamification and the Porsche Experience to persuade clients to see new products.

Making boating easier is the common theme among IBEX’s frontrunners.

Trade Only Today talks with Ron Huibers of Volvo Penta of the Americas, Huw Bower of the Brunswick Boat Group, Don Hopkins and Bill Szekesy of QMI Group, and Brad Burton of Albin Pump Marine LLC.

The show grew 10 percent in square footage and had exhibitors from 55 countries.

Organizers of the International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference said the number of visitors was up 20 percent over last year.

Show manager Anne Dunbar, Matt Gruhn of the MRAA, John Adey of the ABYC and others talk about the show and issues impacting the industry.

Here’s what West Marine, Regulator, ICOMIA, Brunswick Boat Group and Scout had to say.

Here are a few of the interviews with some of the industry’s heavy hitters.

This morning’s industry breakfast and awards ceremony kicked off the three-day event.

NMMA president Thom Dammrich delivered the state-of-the-industry address at the International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference this morning.

The International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition and Conference will feature more than than 700 exhibitors from 21 countries.

Speakers will focus on social media, Google, websites and video