


Bolt Marketing Group is a Portland-based event and experiential marketing agency. Don't wait for your consumers to come to you. Instead, choose high-impact event marketing as your approach to increase brand awareness and improve brand engagements. At Bolt, they design, produce, and manage effective experiential marketing strategies that leave consumers with memorable brand impressions. Bolt's client list includes a few of the nation's most successful athletic apparel & footwear companies, such as Nike, Eastbay, and Crocs, but it has also grown in recent years to include the likes of Cambia Health Solutions, NW Natural Gas and Subaru of America. They also provide many mid-sized businesses with event marketing and promotional staffing solutions, which helps grow their customer base.
Brand Connections specializes in creating elevated experiences designed to support complex product categories at retail such as beauty, health & wellness, pharma, baby, fashion and wedding registry. Working with both retailers and CPG brands, they build continuity based marketing programs, deploying highly trained, specialty staff via in-person and virtually-led programs to gain shopper trust and drive brand/category credibility, ultimately motivating consumers and shoppers to take action. Brand Connections provides omni-channel solutions where traditional in-store tactics aren’t sufficient to meet shoppers’ education and engagement needs. Brand Connections is a proud member of the Advantage Marketing Partners family.
IBM iX is a next-generation experience design and digital consultancy. They bring together a unique combination of strategy, consulting, creative and design, analytics and systems integration capabilities to create and deliver personalized experiences at every touch point to drive growth and transform the way individuals engage with brands. IBM iX use disruptive thinking, visioning workshops, and cross-industry expertise to help their clients to imagine the realm of the possible and redefine their company's role in the world. They design a blueprint of the people, processes, and technologies that are necessary to effectively make a business a user-centered organization.