Tradeshows and conferences
PARK CITY, Utah (BRAIN) — PeopleForBikes will be a presenting sponsor of next summer's Big Gear Show. The organization will provide business education resources at the show. The show also will make use of PeopleForBikes RideSpot app to help bike brands share tailored route maps with demo participants.
With the announcement of Eurobike's 2021 show dates, the 2021 calendar is starting to take shape, although there are still a few question marks. Here's the calendar of major trade events (and a few key consumer events):
PARK CITY, Utah (BRAIN) — The Big Gear Show, a bike and outdoor trade show scheduled to debut this year, will take place Aug. 3-5, 2021, and be endorsed by the National Bicycle Dealers Association.
CHICAGO (BRAIN) — CABDA has postponed its inaugural Industry Summit, planned for early November at Disney World in Florida, to 2021. CABDA will hold a virtual trade event in mid-February, and hopes to resume in-person trade events next fall.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Organizers of the Eurobike trade show which had planned a down-sized event for Thanksgiving week this year, announced early Friday that the event will be canceled due to a coronavirus outbreak in the region.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Eurobike announced Wednesday that trade show visitors per day will be limited to 10,000 and spread across five exhibition halls and two additional halls.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Organizers of the ASEANBIKE 2020 show have announced they have postponed the inaugural event until sometime next year. Messe Friedrichshafen, the owner of the Eurobike show, had partnered with .C.C.
SALT LAKE CITY (BRAIN) — Organizers of The Big Gear Show, a new outdoor and bike trade show planned for July, have decided to cancel the inaugural event and reschedule for Aug. 2-3, 2021.
SAN FRANCISCO (BRAIN) — With the Sea Otter Classic shifted from April to October, brands are coming up with new product launch plans. Among the more ambitious approaches: a live-streaming global media conference planned by ECHOS Communications.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BRAIN) — The Peak Content Summit, a content marketing and strategy conference, is scheduled to start Wednesday despite the rash of industry show postponements because of the growing COVID-19 threat.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BRAIN) — Quality Bicycle Products notified registrants Friday that a Service Summit tech education event has been canceled because of COVID-19 concerns.
CHICAGO (BRAIN) — CABDA show director Jim Kersten said next week's CABDA East trade show in New Jersey is going ahead as planned, even after at least 11 exhibitors have told him they plan to pull out. The show originally had 156 registered exhibitors.