Q1 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from New York

Lake Worth Beach, FL

Experience Epic Events is a corporate event planning and production company headquartered in Lake Worth Beach, in Palm Beach County, founded and led by CEO Sarah Martin. Its South Florida meeting page lists executive retreats, sales kickoffs, leadership summits, incentive meetings, board meetings and client appreciation events among its typical programs, with venue sourcing, vendor management, agenda design, guest logistics and on-site management across Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. In 2023 it added destination management services such as itineraries, transportation, accommodation and activities. Its site describes producing the 2016 Luminary Gala, where it says replacing the sit-down dinner with food stations and new sponsorship and ticketing raised net profits by 232%, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art Ice Ball with JES Publishing. It says it has produced events in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities.

Pompano Beach, FL

South Florida Corporate Events is the corporate division of All On Stage Productions, producing corporate events from a shop in Pompano Beach, Florida. Its site says it has been producing since 2004 and has delivered more than 1,000 events, with audio, video, lighting, staging and rigging from its own inventory, run by a permanent crew. It also supplies scenic and fabrication, tenting and structures, show power and furnishings, so a single team covers everything on the same estimate and load-in plan. The work it lists includes general sessions and conferences, company meetings and sales kickoffs, trade shows and exhibits, product launches and ribbon cuttings, fashion shows, company parties, and awards nights and galas, indoors and outdoors. Selected work on its site includes a conference with a large video wall and line array, a municipal bonds conference with a 40-by-12-foot video wall and live stream, a shareholder meeting with dual video walls and a trade show booth build. It says its clients range from private companies to Fortune 500 brands, along with municipalities, universities, non-profits and hotels. It started in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach and also works in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and across Florida.

Mount Pleasant, SC

Destination South Meetings + Experiences (DSME) is a meeting management and production company founded by Cynthia Alford in 1995. It is headquartered in Atlanta, and its ADMEI listing gives a Charleston-area office in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Its site says it has delivered meetings for corporations, associations and non-profits "from 50 to 40,000 attendees across the Southeast and beyond," and that it now focuses entirely on meetings. Services cover meeting strategy, site selection and hotel sourcing, budget development and reconciliation, agenda design, hybrid meetings, food and beverage, room setup and BEO review, registration, production, speaker care and on-site program management, with a dedicated team that can include a technical director, creative director, show caller and stage manager. A Blackbaud sales-enablement manager says on its site that DSME plans the company's annual sales kickoff each year, including budget, contracts, keynote speakers and onsite production; Hansgrohe and Stibo Systems also give testimonials. Alford received the ADMEI Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024, and the company won a 2020 ADMEI award for a Stibo program in Copenhagen.

Charleston, SC

Fox Audio Visual is a Charleston event production company that brands itself around Professional Audio Visual & Event Production Services, handling AV-heavy events "from concept to strike" with technical labor, equipment and production management. For corporate clients it describes itself as a regional partner for turnkey conference AV, LED wall rentals and hybrid streaming across the Southeast, covering general sessions, breakouts, annual summits, product launches, sales kickoffs, board meetings and trade shows with LED wall backdrops, multi-camera I-Mag, line array audio and live streaming. It also supplies technical crews, AV rentals and mobile LED screen trailers, and works on galas. Founded by Steve Brown, who started with microphone and speaker rentals at Fox Music House in Charleston, it now has offices in Charleston and St. Simons Island, Georgia, and says it has more than 12 full-time technicians and over 25 contractors.

Charleston, SC

KLH Group is a Charleston destination management company and corporate event strategy firm led by owner and principal Hope Caldwell. It describes its focus as "high-end corporate experiences, executive retreats, incentive travel programs, leadership summits, and social impact activations," and its corporate services include national sales meetings, corporate conferences, board retreats, company offsites, VIP client experiences and brand activations. As a DMC it provides "the full spectrum of destination management services for the greater Charleston, SC area," from group transfers and excursions to 24/7 support, and it also takes events on the road. Its social impact work builds hands-on service projects into corporate events; its signature KLH Clubhouse Build has teams build clubhouses for children facing serious illness, and its site cites projects with Newell Brands' leadership summit and at IMEX America. Caldwell, who spent over a decade in event design and destination management at a five-star property, has built a team of women, and she founded the nonprofit Doors to Dream.

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.

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.

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.