Houston is not a generic convention town, and treating it like one is how corporate events go sideways here. The city hosts the Offshore Technology Conference, CERAWeek, and Rodeo Houston in a tight March–May corridor, sits under Gulf hurricane risk from June through...
Most planners searching for a San Diego partner land on a wall of vendor homepages that all say the same thing: full-service, one-stop-shop, transparent pricing (with no numbers). That’s the entire top of the search results. None of them tell you which...
Most posts about corporate event planning in Los Angeles read like brochures. Ours is going to read like a checklist, because that’s what LA actually demands. This city rewards planners who treat it as a logistics problem first and a vibes problem second. The...
Every planner who has run a corporate event in Austin has a Formula 1 story. Ours involves a client who locked a 400-person user conference for the third weekend of October 2022, six months out, and then discovered the Circuit of the Americas race weekend was the same...
Every NYC event has two budgets: the one in the proposal and the one that shows up on the final invoice. The gap between them is where careers get complicated. It is almost always driven by the same handful of line items — service charges stacked on gratuity, sales...
