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Sample of Event Types
Fast-Track Symposia have brought out some of the most interesting and influential research speakers over 15 years. Below is a select sampling of events that will give you an idea of the range of events with which we are involved.
Fast-Track Symposia Events
Pharmaceutical -
Large Internal Symposia
Bristol-Myers Squibb's 35th BMSIARC hosts over 350 BMS scientists. This event is focused on BMS internal poster presentations and networking, and includes a full set of Exhibit Halls with over 40 suitable suppliers.
Bristol-Myers Squibb's Annual R&D Scientific Symposium hosts 2,000 BMS scientists, including over 25% of the BMS worldwide research staff. This event is focused on BMS internal poster presentations and networking, and includes a full set of Exhibit Halls with over 120 suitable suppliers.
 Merck's
Technology Symposia in 2007 & 2008 included the annual Merck Technology
Symposium as well as the Merck Global Forum and the Merck Insights
from Data Evaluation & Analysis (IDEA). The Symposia provide
a forum for over 650 Merck scientists -
nearly
10% of
Merck's
worldwide research staff. This week of Drug Discovery and Data Analysis events accomodated
over 90 Merck-approved exhibitors, enabling Merck’s scientific
staff to compare products and services which can increase their
productivity, enhance analysis and efficiency, and speed research and development.
Pharmaceutical -
External Smaller
 The Regional Biotech Council of Central Bucks (RBCCB)
presented it's 5th Annual RBC BIOTECH Conference in 2005, co-hosted by
PA State Senator Conti, at PineCrest Country Club in Pennsylvania. With the theme "The Future of Pennsylvania Biotech",
speakers and panel experts addressed the audience of more than 100 biotech entrepreneurs,
researchers, and RBC members.
Telecommunications -
Large Internal Symposia
 AT&T Web Week 2000 brought over 800 AT&T global employees together for a
week-long event. Industry and AT&T presentations covered creative
business solutions that addressed many areas of the eBusiness
arena. The event offered over 100 internal and external exhibitors,
Internet-focused courses, a host of presentations, vendor product
tutorials, and copious networking. Web usability guru and Google design architect Jakob Nielson
and IBM's Vice President of Internet Technology, John Patrick,
as well as many AT&T executives gave keynote speeches. Technical
and business-focused employees could choose content at every level.
 Lucent WebTech
2000 was designed to help technical decision-makers fuel Lucent
and Avaya's growth by capitalizing on today's technical and operational
opportunities. About 700 Lucent and Avaya employees from worldwide
locations attended WebTech 2000 to share ideas and insights on
how they could best leverage technology to make the transformation
into leading global communications and information companies a
reality. In addition, the attendees also had the opportunity to
visit over 90 vendors, both internal and external, to learn about
their products and services. The event brought Tim Berners-Lee, the "Father of the Web" and one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th Century, out for a nightly discussion on the "Semantic Web".
Fast-Track Seminars -
Worldwide
 With "User
Experience Rules the Web" as its topic, this multi-city worldwide tour
led by Web Design Guru Jakob Nielsen attracted thousands of usability experts. The NN/g
Group and PlanetConnect visited Japan, Australia, Sweden, Germany,
England and six U.S. cities to showcase the NN/g keynotes and multiple
tutorials.
The information-packed two day event attracted
not only user experience professionals,
but also Web designers, usability specialists,
information architects, content writers
and editors, intranet managers,
e-marketers, e-commerce managers,
Internet executives and people who care
about connecting to customers online.
Telecommunications -
Internal Small
The CIO organization of Lucent Technologies held this Global Knowledge
Sharing conference in 2000 to facilitate the process of capturing
and reusing one of Lucent's most valuable assets, its collective
data and intellect. Exhibitors had the opportunity to participate
in this annual meeting focused on people, processes and technologies.
This event attracted Lucent employees from a wide variety of global
positions. Technology planners, designers, developers, implementers
and users worked with end user organization and process builders
to ensure that Lucent's knowledge sharing is truly world-class.
Telecommunications -
Large Internal Symposia
 WebWeek 2001 - Telecom brought over 400 people to an event covering the technical and business aspects of storage, networks,
portals and e-learning with 60 talks over three days. Fifty vendors
showcased their wares and provided in-depth tutorials on their
products and services. Sponsors included Eastern Technology Council
and the New Jersey Technology Council. The theme of the event
was "Discover All That's Possible".
Telecommunications -
Large External Symposia
 New Jersey Webstock 99 focused on New Jersey businesses of all sizes with over 1,000 local attendees
and 100 vendors. Sponsors included New Jersey Technology
Council and Business News New Jersey.
Telecommunications -
External Small
 eCommerce '98 addressed the enabling of e-commerce in
the corporation. The 2-day public event
drew over 150 people from 60 companies, both regional and
national. Presentations were from executive leaders of AT&T. Thirty
vendors showcased their technologies.
Fast-Track Seminars -
United States
 The Power of Enterprise Portals
three-city seminar series held in New Jersey captured the attention
of hundreds of corporate attendees seeking solutions in portal
design, development, and implementation. Produced by PlumTree,
Cognos, Sun and Vignette.
Community Event Support Samples
Many of our events outside of the Fast-Track Symposia series are ways for us to stay actively involved in our community and support the arts and local non-profits.
PlanetConnect
managed the first “Taste of Red Bank”, which took place
August 19th outside at the Two River Theater.
All proceeds of this event benefited the MONMOUTH COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
which will help to promote bringing additional arts and music events to the Red Bank area.
Over 300 attendees sampled and savored the exquisite cuisine from 15 of Red Bank's finest restaurants,
and enjoyed a special performance by the new, 16-piece Red Bank Jazz Orchestra, assembled by the Jazz Arts Project.
 PlanetConnect managed the 20th Annual FREE CD101.9
Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, which
took place June 2-4 in Marine Park by the gentle and beautiful
Navesink River. The event offered three full days and nights of jazz, blues,
food, crafts and plenty of family fun. The festival draws over 150,000 attendees and is one of the largest free music festivals in the Northeast. PlanetConnect tripled revenue levels for the festival over four years and provided in-house Association management for the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation, the non-profit grass roots organization which produces the festival. In addition, PlanetConnect brought over $100,000 per year in grants to the thriving organization, putting both the Foundation and Festival on solid ground for many years to come.
 Working with the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation, the Monmouth Arts Council, Red Bank Rivercenter, Monmouth County Tourism and others, PlanetConnect help manage and revive a Red Bank tradition. First Night is an alchohol-free, entertainment that offers an eclectic buffet of performers, from a variety of music styles (including Opera, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Rock, Pop, Country, Chorale, Barbershop, Bagpipes), childrens activities (Storytelling, Facepainting, Clowns, Magicians, Arts and Crafts) and a mixture of other art styles (Poetry, Storytelling, Theatre) all for a very affordable and enjoyable year's end evening with over 175 performers in 20 venues throughout town.
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