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RainFocus Launches Sales Module for Event-Driven Selling

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The new module gives enterprise revenue leaders spend control, AE accountability, and cleaner data inputs for pipeline attribution

LINDON, Utah, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RainFocus™, provider of the next-generation event marketing platform, today announced the Sales Module, a purpose-built module that gives enterprise sales and events teams a governed, systemic way to run rep-driven event engagement. The module eliminates coordination challenges within event programs, including scattered attendee pass requests, limited quota visibility, and an inability to track whether sales reps are converting invitations into engagement. Organizations can now move beyond manual, siloed processes to create a unified strategy that drives pipeline and accelerates deals. 

How It Works
The Sales Module integrates seamlessly with CRMs like Salesforce, creating a bi-directional data flow that enhances pre-event planning, engagement during the event, and post-event follow-up. Sales representatives can nominate contacts from their existing book of business, build personalized event agendas for any attendee (including prospects and VIP accounts), track real-time engagement activity, and invite contacts to exclusive ancillary events. Event activity data, including registration and session attendance, flows back into CRM campaigns, giving revenue teams a clean, standardized signal for the attribution model they already run and providing a reliable trigger for post-event outreach.

What This Means for Sales Teams, Events Teams, and Leadership

A governed nomination and approval workflow so that account executives (AEs) can build curated experiences for VIP accounts.Quota and pass governance that allows leadership to, assign, and monitor pass quotas and attendance goals by team or region, for full spend control.Visibility into AE activity such as invitation volume, meeting-scheduling behavior, and which invitation strategies convert to event engagement, making event activity measurable at the rep level. 

Key Capabilities and Benefits

Governed Audience Acquisition: Systemizes contact nominations and approval processes, eliminating scattered pass requests. Business leaders can limit free and discounted passes, enforce quotas by region or business unit, and ensure controlled distribution. Events teams can then easily segment registration funds back to internal team funding.CRM-Integrated Nomination and Approval: Sales reps nominate attendees directly from their CRM book of business, track the nomination’s approval status, and send invitations to approved recipients.Rep-Facilitated VIP Engagement: Reps can transform contacts into engaged buyers by facilitating invitations to ancillary events, scheduling meetings, and recommending relevant content.Improved Attribution Inputs: By standardizing nomination, registration, and campaign-association data, Sales Module improves the quality of event data flowing into the CRM. It strengthens inputs available to the organization’s current attribution model without replacing it.Event Funding Engine: Sales Module enables direct tracking and attribution of event-generated revenue (e.g., ticket sales, internal department contributions) back to specific cost centers, creating a self-sustaining model for event investment.

Use Cases

CROs and Revenue Leaders: Gain visibility into pipeline criteria, track seat quotas, monitor sales activity relative to revenue goals, and connect event participation to pipeline through the current attribution model.Sales Reps: Manage nominations, invitations, meeting scheduling, and attendee recommendations directly inside their CRM workflow, optimizing event engagement strategy by understanding which contacts are attending and what sessions they join.Event Marketers and Leaders: Drive more event attendance, provide sales teams with actionable data, demonstrate tangible event ROI to stakeholders, and justify the total opportunity value registered for the event.Business Leaders: Set audience acquisition strategy, maintain awareness of pipeline accountability, and ensure visibility into AE activity relative to attendance and pipeline goals.

Executive Quotes

“Events are no longer a cost center with soft outcomes; they are a measurable, governed sales channel that drives pipeline and accelerates deal cycles,” said JR Sherman, CEO of RainFocus. “By bringing sales teams together with customer buying groups in a live environment, events provide the highest-fidelity touchpoints in the enterprise buying journey. RainFocus’ Sales Module gives sales teams real-time access to engagement behavior and buying signals, empowering them to identify and execute the right next best action for every customer.””For too long, events have been treated as a cost center rather than a growth engine,” said Marius Milcher, VP of platform strategy and AI at RainFocus. “We’re changing that narrative with the Sales Module. Governance, visibility, and accountability are now directly in the hands of sales and marketing leadership. This will fundamentally shift how enterprises think about event investment going forward.”

Learn More

Sales Module OverviewGenerate More Revenue From Your EventsHow to Level Up Sales Enablement Before, During, and After Your Events

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the Sales Module?
The Sales Module is a purpose-built module in the RainFocus platform that gives enterprise sales and events teams a governed, systematic way to run rep-driven event engagement. It integrates directly with CRMs like Salesforce, enabling AEs to nominate contacts, build personalized agendas for VIP accounts, and track engagement without leaving their existing workflow, while also giving leadership quota governance and activity visibility to ensure events are used strategically.

What specific problem does the Sales Module solve for CROs?
The Sales Module solves the governance and visibility gaps that make event investment difficult to control and justify. It gives sales leadership unified visibility into AE activity, tools to set and monitor pass quotas and spend by team or region, and data-driven insights to optimize how their teams engage at events. The result is events that are governed, measurable, and tied to a cleaner data foundation for any attribution model the organization already runs.

How does the Sales Module contribute to the attribution of closed-won deals from event participation?
The Sales Module provides a clean, governed data trail: registration, campaign association, nomination and approval history, sales-led activations at the event, executive meetings, networking activities, and more, tied to the right accounts and opportunities. That data strengthens organizations’ existing attribution models and lets teams see which activations show up most often alongside closed-won deals. When a business unit or partner funds its own participation, that spend is tracked against the account and deal, supporting straightforward cost-recovery reporting.

How does the Sales Module improve upon traditional CRM event integrations or manual processes?
Unlike traditional integrations that typically sync contact lists after the fact, the Sales Module introduces governed workflow automation across the full event lifecycle, including nomination approvals, quota enforcement, in-event engagement tracking, and structured post-event data handoff. This eliminates manual coordination, reduces data silos, and gives sales reps the ability to customize event experiences for their most important customers.

About RainFocus
RainFocus is the leading enterprise platform for event marketing and management. We help organizations run in-person, virtual, and hybrid event programs of all sizes from one system, with the data and personalization needed to drive measurable business results. With the industry’s most advanced agentic AI at its core, we orchestrate engagement at every stage of the customer lifecycle — unifying touchpoints, driving event impact, and making each engagement smarter. Learn more at rainfocus.com. 

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2026 Canton Fair Design Award Winners Showcase China’s Innovation Strength

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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As the 140th Canton Fair opens, the winners of the 2026 Canton Fair Design Award (CF Award) have also been announced. Winning products are now on display in Area D of the Canton Fair Complex, offering visitors a closer look at some of the latest advances in Chinese manufacturing and industrial design.

Among this year’s top honorees, a domestically developed high-performance sport motorcycle and an intelligent navigation capsule robot gastric endoscopy system received the Best of the Best Award, the competition’s highest recognition.

The Canton Fair also enhanced the visitor experience with a themed showcase area within the award exhibition. Built around four application-oriented concepts, namely Outdoor Pleasure, Smart Living, Cozy Home and Kitchen Elegance, the immersive displays demonstrate how innovative designs can be integrated into everyday life, helping visitors better understand the practical value behind these award-winning products.

This year, 4,218 products from 2,112 companies competed for the award. Following multiple rounds of evaluation, 222 products from 174 companies were selected.

The award-winning products reflect several key trends shaping the next stage of Chinese manufacturing. Innovation remains a defining theme, with breakthrough technologies ranging from upper limb motor function assistance and enhancement system to exoskeleton robots, underscoring the growing momentum of high-end manufacturing.

Meanwhile, intelligent technologies continue to gain traction across industries. Smart products account for more than 30% of this year’s winners, with AI-powered glasses, intelligent conference terminals and smart healthcare devices extending AI applications across home, office, medical and outdoor environments.

Sustainability is also becoming increasingly embedded throughout the product lifecycle. Green products represent over 40% of the winning entries, while innovations such as integrated energy-saving panels and sugarcane paper demonstrate how environmentally conscious practices are being incorporated into product design, materials selection and manufacturing processes.

Established in 2013, the Canton Fair Design Award is widely regarded as a benchmark for design innovation in China’s foreign trade sector. The award recognizes products that combine design excellence with commercial value, promoting the transformation and upgrading of Chinese manufacturing and supporting high-quality trade development. Entries are evaluated across five dimensions: innovation, quality, functionality, aesthetics and sustainability.

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InstaMall Launches Same-Day Fashion Delivery Experience, Bringing 80+ Brands to Shoppers’ Doors in Miami

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First-of-its-kind shopping app pairs artificial intelligence with same-day delivery, bringing luxury
and contemporary brands directly to customers’ doorsteps 

Featured luxury and contemporary brands include AllSaints, John Varvatos and Aritzia

MIAMI, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — InstaMall, a first-of-its-kind shopping app offering same-day delivery and access to real-time inventory across luxury and contemporary fashion, launches today in Miami, Florida. Now available via iOS and Android, InstaMall provides access to more than 80 contemporary and luxury fashion brands across Miami’s five premier retail clusters, including Balmain, Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Ganni, Coach, Diesel, Reformation, Aritzia, Cult Gaia, Prada and more. InstaMall will add more brands within the app in the coming weeks and seasons. 

Sitting at the intersection of fashion, technology and commerce, InstaMall brings inspiration and purchase together through a more dynamic way to discover and shop for fashion. The experience combines access to luxury and contemporary brands with the convenience of same-day delivery, bringing the speed customers have come to expect across categories like food and groceries to fashion while maintaining the brand experience retailers and shoppers expect.

Within the app, customers will have access to InstaMall’s AI-powered stylist and virtual try-on features, making it easier to browse, discover and shop styles online. InstaMall’s AI Stylist serves as an intelligent shopping assistant that responds to customers’ preferences in real time. Customers can use the AI Stylist to receive product recommendations, build outfits, ask questions and discover new styles, while its virtual try-on feature allows them to visualize select items on themselves before making a purchase.

“InstaMall was founded on the belief that the convenience customers have come to expect from same-day delivery should extend to the way they shop for fashion,” said Elliot Aboud, Founder and CEO of InstaMall. “As fashion and technology continue to evolve together, we saw an opportunity to create a more seamless shopping experience that brings customers closer to the brands they love, combining a curated assortment, AI-powered styling and virtual try-on with the ease and convenience of same-day delivery.”

Prior to founding InstaMall, Elliot Aboud helped build the Aroma360 and Hotel Collection brands, overseeing the launch of the first retail store and expanding the retail footprint to more than 30 stores across the United States and two in Dubai. InstaMall is bringing fashion and luxury to the next generation with its seamless shopping experience and wide selection of brands.

Customers can download InstaMall through the Apple App Store or Google Play, or by going to instamall.co.

About InstaMall 

InstaMall is a same-day fashion shopping and discovery app reimagining how consumers shop for luxury and contemporary brands. Sitting at the intersection of fashion, technology and commerce, InstaMall brings inspiration and purchase together in an experience that gives consumers a more dynamic way to discover and shop. Where on-demand delivery has long existed for categories like food and groceries, InstaMall brings that same convenience to luxury fashion for the first time, delivering the same day without compromising the brand experience fashion retailers and their customers expect. The company launched publicly in Miami on October 16, 2026, and plans to expand nationally. For more information, please visit instamall.co.

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PTC to Announce Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Full Year 2026 Results on Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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BOSTON, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) will release its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full year results on Wednesday, November 4th after the stock market closes. As previously announced on October 5th, 2026, PTC entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric. In light of the pending transaction, PTC is suspending quarterly earnings conference calls and is no longer providing quarterly or annual guidance.

The earnings press release and accompanying financial data tables will be accessible on the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at PTC Investor Relations.

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PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) is a global software company that enables manufacturers and product companies to digitally transform how they design, manufacture, and service the physical products the world relies on. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PTC employs over 7,000 people and supports more than 30,000 customers globally. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.

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