Q1 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from Atlanta

Savannah, Georgia

Kristin Detwiler, CMP, DMCP, leads Savannah Destination Management, which has served clients since 2009, and has more than 25 years in the industry, including roles at SmithBucklin and Starwood. Her locally owned company designs corporate meetings and events in Savannah, with local tours, team building, gala and reception venues, theme parties, décor, entertainment, and transportation with meet-and-greet. She has planned events for between 2 and 18,000 attendees. The company says it is the only DMC in the area holding ADMEI's Certificate in Emergency Preparedness.

New Orleans, LA

ACCENT New Orleans is a destination management company that plans corporate events, incentive trips and VIP experiences in New Orleans, led by president and owner Diane Lyons. Its services span event planning and décor, galas and receptions, meeting planning (site selection, registration, hotel negotiations and AV), transportation including permits and police escorts, entertainment booking, and New Orleans experiences such as second-line parades, marching bands, float rides, dine-arounds, guided tours, team building and CSR projects. According to its site, it has been in business for more than 34 years and has worked with global brands, medical associations and Fortune 500 teams. It is a WBENC-certified women-owned business, a partner of the DMC Network, and says it was one of the first ADME-accredited members in New Orleans. Google reviews on its site describe sales kickoffs featuring drumline openings, second-line bands and Mardi Gras greeters.

New Orleans, LA

Live Event Productions is a New Orleans-area production partner for AV-heavy corporate, association and nonprofit events, founded in 2025 by executive producer Craig A. Trosclair. It describes itself as a production leadership and live event technology partner: it handles production planning, designs and coordinates audio, video, lighting, LED and scenic elements, produces Vectorworks CAD floorplans and 3D renderings, and provides executive producers and show callers. Its corporate page lists sales kickoffs and national meetings, leadership summits, user conferences, product launches, awards programs and trade shows among the events it supports. According to its site, the team brings more than 25 years of live event production experience, and it is certified by the SBA as a Veteran-Owned Small Business. Its LinkedIn posts describe work on the Digital Delta Symposium in Houston and a hybrid program at the JW Marriott Downtown Houston.

Miami, FL

Event More is a Miami event planning and destination management company founded in 2018 and led by Severine Meimoun, its founder and owner. Before starting the firm, Meimoun spent more than 15 years at Société Générale in Paris, where, according to the company's site, the work covered global meetings, events and sourcing across more than 30 countries. Event More plans conferences and corporate meetings, executive retreats and offsites, incentive trips, team building, galas and awards, and product launches, and offers destination services in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles. Its case studies describe work on VIP logistics and registration support for the CoMotion conference in Riyadh, with more than 3,000 attendees, a Leadership Games team-building program for 160 Havas Health attendees in Miami, and a winter summit and awards ceremony in New York for more than 170 GoGo squeeZ attendees. The company is a WBENC-certified women's business enterprise, and Meimoun works in English, French and Spanish.

Doral, FL

Presentation Partners AV is a corporate AV and event production company headquartered in Doral, Miami, that describes its work as sound, video, projection, lighting and live streaming for conferences, meetings and galas, "planned, installed and run by our own crew." It handles general sessions, breakouts, conventions and trade shows, executive meetings, sales kickoffs, town halls and board presentations, plus hybrid events, LED video walls and equipment rental, and says it has more than 30 years of experience. Recent work on its site includes LED walls at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Trump National Doral and Art Basel Miami Beach, a Citadel event at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, and conferences in Chicago, Orlando and San Francisco. It works across South Florida and says its crew travels to events in any US state. Its managing partner says it presented a 92-by-10-foot LED wall for FIBA at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and it lists FIBA, Ryder, Art Basel Miami Beach, Citadel and Nielsen among the teams it has worked with. It says one team handles "the plan, the equipment and the people running it," with a single point of contact "from the first call to the last cue."

Miami, FL

The VIBE Agency (VIBE) is a Miami corporate event agency founded in 2004 by Valérie Bihet, who was previously communications director at Disneyland Paris and Club Med North America. It describes itself as a full-service production and destination management agency, and its site says it has produced more than 2,000 corporate events since 2004. The work spans conferences and leadership summits, sales kickoffs and sales meetings, incentive travel, brand activations and product launches, and hybrid and virtual events, along with creative services. Case studies on its site include the 2026 Axway Summit in New Orleans, with product tracks, customer awards and a closing party at Mardi Gras World, a Sprint Training Series for Dior across 10 U.S. cities, L'Occitane's CxC hybrid conference and regional sales meetings in the U.S. and Canada, and VIP hospitality for TotalEnergies at FIA World Endurance Championship races in São Paulo and Austin. Eventex named Bihet among the 100 most influential people in the events industry in 2024 and 2025.