Q1 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from Boston

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.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group Services, Inc. has provided destination management in Puerto Rico for conventions, meetings and incentive groups since 1992. It designs special events at historic venues and resorts, runs team building and land and marine tours, and handles transportation. GSI says it is the only DMC in Puerto Rico with operating offices inside San Juan's international airport, so groups are met on arrival.

Nashville, TN

Music City Events is a corporate event planning and destination management company with offices in Nashville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, and it says its team is "led by Certified Meeting Professionals." It plans meetings and conferences, sales kickoffs, incentive travel, executive and leadership retreats, brand activations, celebrations and awards, and team-building programs, and handles transportation and logistics and event production and design. Its site lists featured destinations in Nashville, Charlotte, Greenville–Spartanburg, Charleston, Atlanta, Savannah, Orlando and New Orleans, with reach across Alabama and Mississippi and support for programs nationwide. Case studies on its site describe a three-day Nashville leadership summit for 475 attendees with more than 40 transportation movements, an Atlanta executive retreat for 155 senior executives and an Orlando incentive weekend for 180 top performers. It operates as the destination management division of A Brand Nu Day, led by Aundrea Fogg.

Nashville, TN

OVATION is a corporate event production agency headquartered in Nashville, with a presence in Boston, and its site says it has been producing events for more than 30 years. It keeps strategy, creative, technical production and talent sourcing under one roof, from scenic design, motion graphics and presentation design to AV, live streaming, show calling and technical direction. It works on user conferences, sales kickoffs, medical, educational and association events, expos and product launches, in person, hybrid or virtual, and its FAQ describes events from 50-person sales kickoffs to 5,000-person user conferences. Case studies on its site include general session and expo production for PTC's LiveWorx in Boston, Cracker Barrel's FY24 Managers Conference for more than 1,800 managers and suppliers, Outreach's Unleash 2023, its first in-person user conference after the pandemic, and Brightcove's global sales kickoff. It names Salesforce, PTC, Outreach and YPO among its clients, and says its work has earned six Telly Awards.

Nashville, TN

Simply Golden Events is a Nashville event planning company co-founded by Keiana Hastings and Hailey Keyees, who both work as lead event producers. The team plans weddings, corporate events and social celebrations across Middle Tennessee, and its site says the team has a combined 18-plus years of experience. For companies it offers two packages: event coordination, which covers a kickoff meeting, venue walkthrough, vendor contact, contract review, the timeline and layout, and a team on site for up to 12 hours, and full event planning, which adds budget management, rental bookings and vendor coordination. Its corporate page names conferences, sales kickoffs and company retreats among the events it handles. In January 2023 the team served as event coordinator for the first Elevate Summit, hosted by NAPCP at Saint Elle and The Graduate Hotel in Nashville and designed by Lemiga Events. Before Simply Golden, Keyees was a venue manager in Nashville.