ThinkGov Venues
ThinkGov was planned to go back to this venue in 2020, but pivoted to virtual.
What is the Renaissance Hotel?
A disease that has spread throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world.
What is a global pandemic?
Voted "Best Excuse for Bailing" on July 1, 2020.
Who is Andrew DeSoiza?
During the planning and execution phase on ThinkGov 2020, Andrew and his wife were obtaining a much more prestige’s honor and title of “parents”, and single handedly defeated the rest of the competition to become the recipient of the “Best Excuse for Bailing” award following the successful completion of ThinkGov 2020.
This person brought dynamic energy and commentary to Think Gov in 2020 and was most definitely the host with the most.
Who is Mark Joyella?
In 2011, IBM had their own “contestant” participate against Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in Jeopardy.
Who is Watson?
At the ____________ in Washington DC, ThinkGov attendees were given large brown paper bags for their “grab-n-go" style lunch.
What is the Grand Hyatt?
In an effort to remain compliant with IBM’s amenities guidelines, we offered a grab-n-go style lunch. The hotel decided to offer the large brown paper bags as an added touch.
This cold, sometimes icy, substance threatened to halt ThinkGov in March 2019.
What is a winter storm?
The weather forecast was calling for a winterty mix and ice storm days before the event in March 2019. The universe aligned and the weather turn out to be a beautiful early spring day with plenty of sunshine!
In this year, Think Gov hosted 31 client speakers throughout the event, in keynote sessions, breakouts and fireside chats.
What is 2020?
These large white THINK letters, which were showcased for two consecutive years 2018-2019 at Think Gov, have a final resting place here.
What is the IBM office at Hamilton Square?
These iconic letters now honor the halls of the IBM office in Hamilton Square where they live their days out posing for photo ops and trophy stands.
This company invented the first smart phone.
Who is IBM?
IBM innovated and developed the first smartphone in the world. The device was named ‘IBM Simon Personal Communicator’. It was launched back on 23rd November 1992. It was designed by IBM and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric. The device sold about 50 thousand units. It had a touchscreen, calculator app, email capability, and some other built-in apps. It had 2 MB RAM and 2 MB internal storage.
This venue in Washington DC offers high ceilings with plenty of sound travel, as well as occasional bus loads of squealing children.
What is the Ronald Reagan Center?
The Reagan Center is a beautiful venue with wonderful nature light and open atrium, that allowed for a great visual experience to include signage, photo/video ops above the crowd, and center stage placement of THINK branding. There were challenges related to noise travel from the atrium to the main stage, as well as open hallways with loads of field trip students giggling and squealing as they passed by.
Failure to pass funding legislation to finance the government for its next fiscal year.
What is a government shutdown?
The US Federal marketing team kicked things up a notch with incredible branding that spanned from floor to ceiling, immersing attendees in a visually stunning event experience when they adopted the corporate THINK branding in the year _________.
What is 2018?
Walls came tumbling down during the Think Gov event in 2019 when _______ came crashing to the floor.
What is the Blockchain activation?
The Blockchain activation was a wall display that showcased the Blockchain journey and capabilities. During the main stage session, pieces started falling off, so it was quickly dismantled.
The IBM chess computer that defeated the famous chess world champion Garry Kasparov on February 10th, 1996 was called ___________.
What is “Deep Blue”?
A venue that has no boundaries but has obstacles in the corners.
What is ON24?
We successful executed an exceptional event using the ON24 platform and learned a tremendous amount, as we all explored how to navigate the challenging obstacles around the corners.
This weather event tried to stop ThinkGov before it was ThinkGov.
What is hurricane El Derecho?
The ______ event preceded ThinkGov as the IBM proprietary federal government event.
What is the Government Analytic Forum?
These ThinkGov activations have enticed attendees with sweet treats and golf balls.
What is the Watson Chocolate and Watson Golf swing analyzer activations?
In 1969, approximately 4000 IBM technicians were responsible for developing the software, programs, building the computers and streamlining the entire mission for this historic event.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?