Following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Inspired Home Show returned in-person to Chicago’s McCormick Place on March 5-7, 2022. Formerly known as the International Home and...
CES 2022: A Review of the First Hybrid Show
The world’s largest tech show, CES, returned ‘home’ to Las Vegas following a fully virtual showcase last year. Despite some setbacks related to the pandemic, such as popular brands canceling...
CES 2022: How to Prepare for a Digital Trade Show
Trade shows, virtual or in-person, allow for brands, industry professionals, and media to connect and debut their latest technology advancements. Last year, COVID-19 forced many trade shows, like the Consumer...
TEDxAsburyPark: Describe the Most Passionate Person You Know
We are proud to share that our co-founder and managing partner David Hernandez has been selected as a TEDxAsburyPark speaker for this year’s topic about “Passion.” TEDxAburyPark will take place...
CES 2016 Recap & Trends: The Future Is Now
And just like that CES 2016 is a thing of the past! </ br> During the exciting week, we saw some crazy things, like LG’s 95” 8K television, and some...
The Northside Festival: The Right Coast’s SXSW
The Northside Festival is New York City’s largest and most accessible discovery festival. From June 12-19, bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and nearly 80k people converged upon Brooklyn for eight days...
The Startup Interview, Part 3: The Future of Content Marketing
To close out our startup analysis, we sat down with lotus823’s managing partners, David and Allison Hernandez, to discuss where the company is going. Sometimes, that’s impossible to tell, particularly...
7 Emerging Connected Home Products & Companies
The connected home is becoming less of a fantasy only seen in The Jetsons and sci-fi movies. During CES 2014, CNET hosted a Connected Home panel speaking about the emergence...
The Startup Interview, Part 2: People and Culture
A startup is more than a company. In our first interview with David Hernandez, managing partner at lotus823, we established that a vision is key to a startup and that...
The Interview with Allison and David Hernandez: Seeds of a Startup
To continue our analysis of startups, we decided to look within, considering lotus823 is a startup itself. We share the same trials, free spirit, and passion as the startups we...