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All hands on deck for this big event: Kristen Rensch, Alisa Walsh, Brynne Peña, Morgan Connacher, Mary Leist Vandergoot, Alora Wilde, Jessica Jazayeri, Sarah Diem, Dina Morales and Nastasha Allaire. Orlando, FL, in summer, hot and humid. We turned a ballroom into a backyard pool deck and invited our guests indoors. Entertainment by the legendary Beach Boys. EW produced many aspects of this conference. We are happy to share the story of our most unique event. The Backyard Pool Party. Event Date: July 30th, 2019 Client: an international hotel chain invited their operations and IT department employees to a multi-day conference. Guest Count: 1,500 THE EVENT: Alisa: "This conference was a 'first' for our client, a conference for their operations and IT teams. Leaders from various properties in the front office area, in the IT area, and the food & beverage area were invited to gather in Orlando. It was a really fun and unique conference because it is not often ...

The client: an international hotel chain. The location: a large hotel in the Phoenix, AZ, area The guests: 500 food and beverage executives The purpose: to show them unusual ways to use every space of their properties. Our task: creating an amazing fete in a never before used "event" space. We were fortunate to have a visionary client who came to us with a concept and details in mind. Creating the event together became a very rewarding collaborative endeavor. Event Designer Kate Brack: "The event was a secret. Guests were only told that they were going to an "evening event" and to meet in the hotel lobby. We surreptitiously took over little used level 2 of the hotel parking garage and went to work. This is where we started." Since our guests were food and beverage executives the client came up with a theme matching the current jazz age food craze: the Speakeasy! The concept kept the surprises coming. We created a familiar entrance: ...