Q2 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from Denver

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.

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.

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.

Las Vegas, NV

Corporate Events Las Vegas is an independent corporate event planner in Las Vegas, where Daniel Herschman has been Director of Events since 2004. It plans corporate meetings, sales kickoffs, conferences, receptions, product launches and convention-related programs, with one point of contact from venue search to on-site execution. Much of its work is finding and negotiating venues: restaurants, lounges, nightclubs, rooftops, pools, ballrooms and hospitality suites, including food and beverage minimums, venue fees, event hours and contract terms. Its site describes a 200-guest welcome reception at The Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan for a corporate client attending a conference, where it negotiated the food and beverage minimum down from $40,000 to $30,000. Example programs it lists include a 500-person sales kickoff at Wynn, a 300-person annual summit at Fontainebleau and a 250-person awards dinner at Bellagio. It also provides destination management support, including hotel room blocks, group transportation, dine-arounds and entertainment. Clients quoted on its site include Velocitor Solutions, whose president says they have done more than 30 events with the team over 20 years.

Las Vegas, NV

JET The Agency is a Las Vegas event planning and destination management company that works nationwide and also designs and builds trade show booths. Its DMC page lists venue sourcing, event design and management, staffing, dining, transportation, furniture and decor, entertainment and activities, for corporate events, incentive trips, business meetings, sales kickoffs, annual conferences and team building. It started as a boutique entertainment agency, and today handles booth design and in-house fabrication and rents event and trade show furniture. On its site, Aruba Networks' global event director says the team was hired as DMC for the Airheads/ATMOSPHERE conference, a 2,500-person customer and partner event, handling entertainment, acts, staffing and themes. Other testimonials describe custom booths for AgentSync since 2022 and a conference sponsorship for XUP Payments, a KeyBank brand. Its site says it has worked on more than 1,500 events.

Las Vegas, NV

MyRSVP is a Las Vegas nightlife and dining concierge that also runs corporate programs in the city: sales kickoffs, client appreciation events, customer summits, multi-day off-sites, incentive trips, executive retreats and holiday parties. It acts as a single point of contact across restaurants, nightclubs, pool clubs, transportation and room blocks, and, according to its site, sends one consolidated invoice. Its corporate page says it works directly with events teams at nine Strip resorts and with the major nightlife and dayclub operators, and that it handles programs from 10-person executive retreats up to 2,000-attendee summits. It charges a flat or per-attendee fee agreed up front, and says comped tables and venue concessions often offset it. Clients listed on its site include Davis Polk, Crexi, Golub Capital and DocuSign. According to its site, it was founded by Adam Sadie, who has 25 years in hospitality, including opening director roles at Nikki Beach, Hakkasan and Sphere, and it has operated since 2014.