Creative Brain Fart - Please Help :)

Ok,
Here is my problem. We are having a big internal meeting within the company tomorrow. Probably like 300+ people.

So I was aksed to do a logo for the theme of the meeting. I came up with about six logos. All of which looked pretty good.

So the big-wig over here decided to take elements from all six and lump them into one big disgusting busy mess. Whatever, just smile and nod…right :lol:

Anyhow.

Attached is the monstrosity he wants to go with. So now he wants me to find a way to make the E in Emerging, the T and the S from technologies visibly stand out.

For ETS (Emerging Technologies Segment)

I am totally at a loss here. Every thing I try from color variations to outlines just makes it look even worse than before.

Any suggestions?

Thanks