THE NEWS from EventWorks, Inc.

We are very happy and proud to announce that EventWorks Director of Sales Katie Rogers won the "Supplier of The Year" award by Meeting Professionals International Southern California Chapter. Katie received the award during the MPI SCC Installation Dinner on Friday, June 19th. Katie's honor brought back fond memories for EventWorks President Janet Elkins: "Time flies! I won the same award in 1989 - 20 years ago!".

Yes, that’s Jennifer Okamura at Olvera Street’s Kiosko Stage this past Sunday during Golden Boy Promotions’ Fan Rally for Juan Manuel Marquez’s upcoming fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., an event produced by EventWorks. Jenni: “Floyd Mayweather is coming out of retirement to fight Marquez. He said that he would only come out of retirement to fight “the best”. Mayweather retired at 38-0 – the undisputed pound for pound champion in his league. Marquez is being touted as “Numero Uno” out of Mexico. They are calling this fight Number One – Number Uno.” Jennifer met Golden Boy Promotions a year ago during a large press conference to promote Oscar’s fight against Steve Forbes in Carson, CA. “We were called to help with the large media event at the Biltmore Hotel. We basically took over the hotel and put up enormous signage for the press conference. We also created a custom carpet for Oscar to walk in. I met Golden Boys’ P.R. person, Monica, and we became good friends.” It turned o...

EW Executive VP Ted Bowers and event coordinator Chris Gerstenblatt returned from EventWorks’ March 09 Puerto Rico event assignment with a tan and many stories to tell! Ted Bowers: “The client was a large professional association. We had more than 1000 guests but since this was not an incentive trip, we also had to work within a restricted budget. At the same time, we wanted to fulfill the client’s high expectations.” High expectations are Ted’s specialty. “Some of you know that I grew up in this business. My father started the company that is now EventWorks. He was a perfectionist. He did not cut me any slack. All aspects of our events had to meet his high standards. Nothing less than perfect will do and I have inherited that trait from my dad. This said our Puerto Rico assignment posed some challenges.” Eventworks produced general sessions as well as the special theme event on the final night. Janet Elkins: “Ted is really the partner in charge of the technical and logistical aspects ...