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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Erika Brunke, 512-310-8330
August 18, 2009

CEMA Announces BusyEvent as Technology Shoot Out Winner at CEMA Summit 2009

CEMA, the Corporate Event Marketing Association, is pleased to announce the winner of our 3rd Technology Shoot Out, BusyEvent, a St. Louis based company.

BusyEvent’s demo featured BeLinker, a Social networking, expo lead management, session tracking and audience response system all wrapped up into a tiny wearable device.  To watch their winning demo, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVhfRTzb38

“What I love about the Technology Shoot Out is that in a fast paced format, attendees can see cutting edge event technology that will impact their future events,” says Erika Brunke, Executive Director of CEMA.

This year, four companies participated in the Technology Shoot Out, an audience favorite at CEMA Summit. Each company received 10 minutes to demo their technology and attendees voted for the best technology.

CEMA Summit 2009 hosted 175 senior level Event Marketing professionals from the technology sector for three days of education and networking.

David Schenberg, Principal at BusyEvent states, “As a technology company that works with event production companies as well as directly with the organizations, CEMA is jammed full of the highest quality people who not only understand what we do, but can clearly see the value it can bring to them. Simply put, CEMA facilitates the highest quality connections.”

Additional information on CEMA is available by visiting http://www.cemaonline.com

BusyEvent is cutting the cost of event management in half AND creating events that get better results.

They do this by helping event producers run a better, cheaper, faster and greener events. BusyEvent reduces and even eliminates traditional hard costs, reduces waste and decreases the uncertainty of a return on investment for events.

Through an integrated system of software, live event hardware, mobile and web-connected technology, BusyEvent maximizes the face-to-face experience. Every participant receives a measurable increase in value by experiencing quality introductions to people, products and ideas.