Q1 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from SF Bay Area

Sonoma, CA

Quintana Events is a Sonoma event planning and design company founded in 2007 and led by Alex Quintana, its owner and creative director. Its corporate team plans retreats, remote team offsites, incentive trips, executive retreats and leadership summits, client appreciation experiences, holiday parties, team building and employee recognition events, acting as "an extension of your internal team by managing logistics, budgets, and production." Its services include venue sourcing and contract negotiation, hotel room blocks, travel and transportation, agendas, food and beverage, AV and production management, registration and branded gifting. It also plans galas, store and product launches, fashion events and sales meetings, and says it has worked with "brands as big as Bloomingdale's" for groups of 50 to 500. With Wine Country as its home base, it says it specializes in "destination-worthy retreats while producing corporate experiences nationwide." It is also an award-winning Northern California wedding planner, named 2025 Best Wedding Planner Northern California by California Wedding Day Magazine.

Carmel, California

Karissa Paxton Events is a boutique planning and production company on California's Central Coast, serving Carmel, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach, Big Sur, Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay. With more than 20 years of experience, the team offers full-service planning, design and event management, and produces corporate, social and nonprofit events, from venue sourcing to on-site execution. Its related company, Paxton Entertainment, handles entertainment.

Palm Springs, California

MOMENTOUS is an event design, production and destination management agency headquartered in Palm Springs, with more than 35 years of experience. It produces corporate meetings, incentives, conferences, awards shows, galas and brand activations across the Coachella Valley, and handles DMC work locally: tours and activities, team building and CSR, transportation, site selection and VIP logistics. Staging, lighting, audio, décor, entertainment and catering management are all done in-house. The company says it has engaged more than 750,000 attendees, and its client logos include Disney, Modernism Week, Omni Rancho Las Palmas and Eisenhower Health.

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.

Lake Tahoe, California / Nevada

Tahoe By Design is a locally owned and operated destination management company with 25 years of corporate meeting and event planning in Lake Tahoe. It plans executive retreats and incentive programs, and handles transportation from Reno and Truckee airports, hotel room blocks, off-site evening events, tours and activities, AV and production, theme décor, VIP management and on-site staffing. Hotel partners include Edgewood Tahoe, the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, the Ritz-Carlton, Everline Resort, Harveys and Harrah's, and the Tahoe Blue Event Center. It charges a percentage management fee on net costs.