Horacio Rodriguez Rilo

Founder @ Boop 🤝 | Revolutionizing Marketing & Sales at Conferences & Events | Transforming Handshakes into Lasting Connections with SMS Business Cards & Forms

Your team had 47 conversations at the last conference. How many turned into meetings?

Most sales leaders I talk to say 5-10%. The rest go cold before anyone follows up.

Boop fixes that. We help your team book meetings while the conversation is still happening, before the prospect walks away. Works via SMS (no app, no WiFi). 

Qualifies buyers in 60 seconds. Routes hot leads straight to calendars. 90% completion vs. 12% for traditional badge scanners.

If you're exhibiting in the next 60 days, DM me "booth" and I'll show you the 2-minute demo.

Founder

Join Boop in Revolutionizing Networking for Sales, Business Development, and Marketing at Events & Conferences:

Instant Connect 📲🤝: Effortless and immediate networking.
Strategic Insights 📊🔍: Data-driven approaches for impactful relationships.
Meaningful Engagements 🤝💡: Deepen connections with relevant information.
Unlock Potential 🌐🎯: Identify and leverage crucial opportunities.
Sustainable Connections 🌿⚙️: Green, digital networking solutions.

Hosting the official AI Builders Meetup at SXSW with Matthew Smiley.

Come trade stories with founders, engineers, and product leaders building real AI products.

Compare notes on what's working, what's not, what's overhyped, tools you're using, scaling challenges.

If you’re training models, shipping products, or scaling teams, you belong here.

Mar 16 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm CT | JW Marriott – Room 303

Horacio Rilo

Last week at CES, I watched Stevie Wonder walk away from an exoskeleton booth because the rep didn't recognize him.

A mobility tech company let Stevie Wonder, potential user, potential ambassador, once-in-a-lifetime marketing moment, walk away unengaged.

That booth probably cost $100K. They spent $0 training the person working it.

Three days on the floor taught me most exhibitors are optimizing for the wrong thing:

❌ Booth aesthetics over conversation quality
❌ AI companies handing out paper business cards
❌ "AI" massage chairs that feel like every other massage chair
❌ Flashy demos that don't work in noisy environments
❌ Building-sized QR codes on the Strip that link nowhere useful
❌ Badge scanners instead of real-time qualification

The only booths that worked? Eureka Park startups where founders were on the floor, not booth temps reading scripts.

You're not paying $100K for impressions. You're paying for conversations.
If you can't convert the conversation into a routed next step before they walk away, you're just an expensive business card dispenser.

P.S. Wrote up more CES takeaways on my blog, link in comments.

Talked to a VP of Sales last week who said something that stuck with me:

"By the time I get the lead list from marketing, the event might as well have been a month ago."

His timeline:

- Event ends Friday
- Marketing exports leads Monday
- Data gets cleaned Tuesday
- CRM upload Wednesday
- SDRs start outreach Thursday

6 days. On leads from conversations that happened almost a week earlier.
He wasn't blaming marketing. He was just describing reality.

The handoff isn't broken because anyone's dropping the ball. It's broken because the process was never designed for speed.

CEO @ Accelevents | Event Marketing, Management, and Growth

Events are hard enough. At Accelevents, we're on a mission to help event organizers get some sleep the night before their event.

Jonathan Kazarian

Event Strategy vs. Event Plan

An EVENT PLAN is:
1. Your event timeline and schedule
2. Venue logistics and vendor coordination
3. Session topics and speaker lineup
4. Event formats (workshops, panels, networking sessions, etc.)
5. The checklist that keeps you on time and on budget.

Nail the plan and you execute.
Your event strategy will never work if you can’t execute.

An EVENT STRATEGY is:
1. Purpose - why the event program matters to the business and the audience.
2. Audience journey - who you invite, where they sit in the funnel, how you’ll move them forward.
3. Behavior change - the trust, loyalty, or pipeline progression you expect after the show.
4. Core formats - the few repeatable experiences your brand builds a reputation on for (flagship, field, virtual).
5. Measurement - attendee lift, downstream revenue, partner amplification. Probably can’t do this without Marketing Ops.
6. Tool fit - You need a partner, not duct tape. Your event tech should be an enabler.
7. Team cadence - sales, product, brand, and ops aligned from brief to debrief.

Your event program is ultimately a form of PR.
It will share you perception in the market.
And that’s how it should be approached.

When we onboard new customers.
They always fall in 1 of 2 camps.

Either:
Show me how to build out my next event.
OR
Teach me how to roll this out across my company.

The “event strategy” led teams always focus on the latter.
They know they can run the event.
What they care about is how they can scale the program.

**Note** you need management to buy into the strategy.
You need a C-suite that understands the compounding impact of a strategic event program.

When events are reduced to lead quotas, quality erodes.
Trust erodes.
Brand equity erodes.
Strategy prevents that slide.

Do you feel like you’re given room to execute an event strategy?
Or are you being tasked with ‘random acts’ of event planning?

CEO @ Accelevents - Event Management Software| Event Marketing | MarTech

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