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...
Most guides to planning a corporate event in San Francisco read like they were written from a desk in another city. They list the Fairmont, mention Moscone, gesture at Golden Gate Park, and call it done. What they miss is the friction: the Entertainment Commission...
Every corporate event in Seattle has the same three failure points, and they show up in the same order. The July shortlist arrives in April, when the good rooftops are already gone. The Bellevue-to-downtown transfer runs 22 minutes on Google Maps and 70 minutes on a...
Nashville has quietly turned into one of the most-requested secondary meeting cities in the country. If you are sourcing a corporate program here for 2027, the hard part is not deciding whether the city works — it is getting the specifics. Venue capacities,...
The single most useful thing to understand about corporate event planning in Las Vegas is this: the city’s calendar, not your calendar, sets the price of your program. Pick the wrong week and you will pay a premium for a compressed hotel block, fight IATSE for...
