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"Rick Calvert is the CEO and Co-founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo. He has been involved in the trade show industry since 1996 serving as sales manager and director of sales for three of Tradeshow Week’s top 200 events including the SEMA Show (4), AWFS®Vegas (39) and the DEMA Show (97).

Rick’s interest in new media first began in during the explosion of the political blogosphere around the 2000 election season. He was finally inspired to launch his own blog in October of 2005. After experiencing unexpected success with his political blog he began searching for the blogging tradeshow.

When he realized no such event existed he launched BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas November of 2007 and attracted 1,600 attendees. BlogWorld & New Media Expo will host over 120 exhibiting companies and more than 3,500 attendees whose combined audience reaches more than 200,000 readers, listeners and viewers! The event also attracts numerous fortune 500 companies like Johnson & Johnson, eBay, Intel, Ford, AB/Inbev, Sony, Kodak, and traditional media brands ESPN, CNN, Los Angeles Times and more.  

Rick lives in Canyon Lake California with his wife and two Karellian Bear Dogs Thor and Abby.

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