Q1 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from Denver

Phoenix, AZ

Centric Events & Rentals is a Phoenix event production company that handles the technical side of live events: audio, lighting, LED video walls, staging, live streaming and on-site technicians. Its site describes it as primarily a full-service production company that also owns an in-house rental inventory, including AV gear and pipe and drape. It works on corporate conferences and general sessions, hybrid events, brand activations, galas, concerts and weddings, mainly across the greater Phoenix area, and says it travels for multi-city programs. Featured projects on its site include Carvana's Spark annual employee conference, LoudRumor's annual conference, a Milagro Tequila brand activation and the Westgate Entertainment District's Fourth of July concert. It was co-founded by Dustin Dluhy, its managing director, and Daniel Pitner; according to its LinkedIn page, the company was founded in 2013.

Peoria, AZ

Highway 85 Productions describes itself as "a full-service corporate event production company headquartered in Peoria, AZ" that builds "the physical environments that make events work: staging, scenic, branded structures, registration, wayfinding, and everything in between." It works on user conferences and customer summits, product launches, brand activations, and sales kickoffs and internal events, with 3D design, fabrication in its Peoria facility, and installation by its own crew; AV and LED are handled as design coordination. It says it has "produced full environments for Axon’s annual user conference," including general session staging, breakouts, branded registration and product demo zones, and has built for Microchip Technology’s Masters Summit; it also builds trade show exhibits and permanent interiors. It was founded by Guy Zwick, its founder and chief experience officer.

Peoria, AZ

Xperience Entertainment is an event production company in Peoria, Arizona, that handles the technical side of corporate events: audio, video, LED video walls, lighting, staging and scenic, and live streaming for hybrid audiences. Founded in 2006 by Darrell Perez as a DJ business, it grew into full event production, and its site says the work is done by its own crew rather than subcontractors. For conferences it runs general sessions and breakout rooms, with confidence monitors, teleprompters, multi-camera video and a show caller. It works on conferences, sales kickoffs, award galas, trade shows, product launches and company events across the Phoenix Valley, and lists PlayStation, Nike, 23andMe and the City of Phoenix among its clients. Its featured project is Diana Taurasi's retirement celebration in Phoenix, where it handled audio, staging, lighting, LED video and a custom LED DJ booth. It also handled lighting, draping, projection and audio for VEN Centers' Doing it in the Desert summit in 2026. It also produces weddings and school events and rents equipment without crew.

Tucson, AZ

Commotion Studios describes itself as "an event, video and multimedia production company based in Tucson, Arizona," offering "full audio/visual services for events large and small," including "full PA packages, live video, LED wall and projection packages." Its events page lists "national conventions, sales meetings, non-profit fundraisers, group luncheons," along with HD playback, projectors and screens, lighting, and live streaming packages with multiple cameras, live graphic overlays and picture in picture. It says it often pre-produces video and media for the events it supports, and also offers video production. It is led by president Matt George, and says it has "produced over 500 events in the last 5 years." It says its team has "over 40 years of experience" collectively and "donates more than $40,000 a year worth of services and equipment to local non-profit groups."

San Diego, CA

Cue the Magic is a boutique corporate event studio in San Diego, founded in 2025 by Kelly McCleland, who leads it as founder and creative director. It plans events from strategy through on-site delivery: setting objectives and audience, designing the guest journey and programming, creative direction, communications, and running the room on the day. Its site lists customer events, sales meetings, workshops and trainings, leadership retreats, internal culture moments, and trade shows and conferences among the events it supports, and says it works with a select group of clients rather than at volume. It is based in San Diego and serves teams across the U.S.

Escondido, CA

GoGather is a full-service corporate event management agency based in Escondido, in San Diego County, co-founded in 2008 by Brian Kellerman (Partner & CEO) and Dave Wagner (Partner & President). It plans sales kickoffs, conferences, corporate meetings, and employee and channel-partner incentive trips, handling strategy, site selection, budgeting, vendor management, production and A/V, and on-site management. Its case studies include a 3,000-person, eight-division sales kickoff, a sales kickoff for more than 300 people in Puerto Rico, a franchise conference at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and a first user conference for an AI software company in San Francisco. According to its site, it works with Fortune 1000 companies in manufacturing, trucking and transportation, home services, construction and franchising, and has managed more than 1,000 events. It says clients get an online project plan and budget they can view anytime, plus KPI-setting and post-event reporting.

San Diego, CA

The Private Event Company is a female-owned San Diego event planner that specializes in group dining and evening events: corporate and client dinners, dine-arounds, restaurant buyouts, block parties and holiday parties. For groups in town for a conference, incentive trip or sales meeting, its destination management page describes handling the ground program, including group dinners, off-site evenings, transport, hotel coordination and excursions, with one dedicated contact. It says it works with more than 100 venues across the Gaslamp, Little Italy and Downtown, handles everything from 20-person dinners to 5,000-guest block parties, and charges no planning fee because the venues pay it. Case studies on its site include a 245-guest VIP dinner for the California Cattlemen's Association, a cocktail reception and group dinner for Marsh, dinners for Ryvu Therapeutics and AstraZeneca Brazil, and a Taco Bell brand activation.