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Anaheim, CA

Like so many cities in southern California, Anaheim enjoys sunny weather and low rainfall for most of the year, and it’s a highly popular destination for trade shows, expos, and corporate events of all kinds. The Heart of Orange County is home to the Los Angeles Angels and, of course, Disneyland®!

Anaheim is also where you’ll find one of the biggest convention centers on the West Coast. The Anaheim Convention Center & Arena clocks in at 1.6 million square feet and has an 800,000-square-foot exhibition hall and a 100,000-square-foot outdoor plaza. Then there’s Angel Stadium, which hosts a wide range of corporate and industry events in its 29,000 square feet—after baseball season is over.

Planning an event in Anaheim, CA? Ensure it’s successful by working with the experts at ProGlobalEvents. Our team includes designers, tech experts, project managers, and all the other personnel needed to plan and execute a successful corporate event. For trade shows, exhibitions, product launches, and more, call us!

Need help planning your Anaheim event? We’re here to help.

ProGlobalEvents offers a full range of event services including design, planning, rentals, vendor & audience management, and post-event analysis. We’ll work hard to create a seamless event experience that’s exciting, engaging, and valuable for guests and attendees.

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Anaheim Event Services

Need help with one or more aspects of an upcoming event? ProGlobalEvents has an expert team ready to go! We offer a full range of event services, including design, production, and management, for every stage of event planning and execution in Anaheim. We can develop your event theme and create content to match, design an engaging attendee experience, hire and manage vendors and contractors, and find and manage the perfect complement of speakers. From start to finish, we can do it all, creating a seamless, exciting experience for every exhibitor and visitor.

Event Design

One of the first tasks in putting an event together is also one of the most challenging. Event attendees are increasingly sophisticated, with higher expectations of the events they attend. It takes a lot of creative planning to design an event that’s engaging, exciting, and meaningful. With ProGlobalEvents working for you, it’s as good as done. Our expert creative team is ready to get to work on themes and design elements, and branding and digital media, to give your event the flair it deserves!

Event Planning

If you’re planning a corporate event, you already know what a huge undertaking this is. There are many hours of work involved to pull it all together, and a lot to do, often within a short amount of time. With ProGlobalEvents on your event team, planning is made simple. We can help you define your event goals; find sponsors; negotiate contracts for Anaheim venues, vendors, and accommodations; and more. Our team of experienced personnel—and long list of industry contacts—allows us to get the work of event planning done quickly and neatly.

Exhibit Production and Activation

PGE are event experts, not just when it comes to planning and management, but also for the production and activation of exhibits. We have access to over 120,000 square feet of exhibit production and storage facilities, allowing us to design and manufacture exhibits too! We also offer shipping and storage, and labor for installation.

Event Management

Even after all the work of planning is done, there’s still more to do in managing the event once it’s under way. With ProGlobalEvents, your event is in capable hands. Our management team can handle every aspect of the live event and take care of any problems that arise too.

Virtual Events

Whether you’re converting a live Anaheim event into the online environment or are starting a virtual event from scratch, there’s just as much work to do as any other kind of event. Fortunately, ProGlobalEvents isn’t only a live event expert, we’re experienced when it comes to virtual events too. From planning the event to securing virtual sponsors, vendors, or exhibitors, from creating a theme to designing graphics and AV content, our industry knowledge serves us equally well online as in the world of live Anaheim events.

ProGlobalEvents is a full-service virtual event management company, and we can put together a virtual event you’ll be proud of. We’re happy to provide partial service too. If there are certain things you prefer to manage yourself, feel free to hand the reins over to us for everything else.

Post-Event Analysis

What parameters define success? It’s more than just the number of exhibitors and attendees your event draws! Post-event analysis is all about defining success on your terms, according to the goals you set. After the event is over, ProGlobalEvents gathers data, creates financial reports, and more, generating a wealth of useful data. Analysis is vital because it doesn’t just show how successful the event was—it also provides information that helps you plan future events.

ProGlobalEvents Provides the Expertise You Need to Ensure Success

Event planning, production, and management involves a huge amount of work in multiple fields. When you need help with one or more aspects of putting an event together in Anaheim, ProGlobalEvents can provide whatever aid you need. Or, if you need a full-service team to handle the entire event, we have the expertise for that too! Whatever the job, we’re ready to get to work for you.

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Anaheim Convention Center & Arena

One of the biggest convention facilities on the west coast, the Anaheim Convention Center & Arena has more than 1.6 million square feet of space. This includes 51 meeting rooms, 800,000 square feet of exhibition space, a 38,000-square-foot ballroom, a 3,800-seat arena, and a 100,000-square-foot outdoor plaza. The center is fully equipped to host a range of events, but really shines for large conferences, trade shows, and expos.

Business Expo Center

The Business Expo Center offers 36,000 square feet of flexible event space, including 14 meeting rooms and 25,000 square feet of open exhibit space. It’s ideal for conferences and conventions, meetings, holiday parties, sales, and product launches. Rooms come in a good mix of sizes, from the largest at 12,096 square feet (capacity: 1,500 people) to the smallest at 110 square feet (capacity: 10). The exhibit hall provides room for up to 140 exhibitors and 1,000 attendees.

Angel Stadium of Anaheim

The official home of the Los Angeles Angels, this stadium plays host to all manner of events in the off-season. It’s particularly suited to corporate events, product launches, holiday parties, meetings, and team-building activities. With 29,000 square feet of event space—both indoors and out—it’s also suitable for small-to-medium trade shows and expos.

The Phoenix Club

Looking for a smaller, more intimate kind of venue for a product launch, banquet, or other corporate event? The Phoenix Club is a great option, with a number of flexible rooms and spaces, indoors and outdoors. The largest room is the Festhall, which at 11,500 square feet, is large enough to comfortably hold 1,000 people. Other rooms at the Phoenix Club can accommodate between 100 and 750 people, while the two outdoor areas are suitable for groups of up to 50 each.

Hilton® Anaheim

Located right next door to the Anaheim Convention Center, the Hilton Anaheim’s 1,572 guest rooms and 150,000 square feet of event space mean it has great potential of its own. The hotel has 74 event rooms, including two large, 2,800-person capacity ballrooms, an executive boardroom, and nearly 40,000 square feet of outdoor space. The hotel can accommodate events up to 3,000 attendees. With dozens of flexible multi-use rooms, it can also host small groups of 25 to 50.

Anaheim Marriott

Like the Hilton Anaheim, the Marriott is just a stone’s throw from the Anaheim Convention Center and is also an impressive venue in its own right. With 1,030 guest rooms, 23 event rooms, and nearly 170,000 square feet of space, there’s plenty of scope for conferences, meetings, corporate training, and more. The hotel is also located near some of the area’s biggest attractions, including Angel Stadium, Disneyland, and the Honda Center®.

Disneyland Hotel

The Disneyland Hotel may seem an odd choice for a corporate event, but really it makes perfect sense. Disneyland are experts when it comes to creating engaging and entertaining experiences. Why not leverage that for your next training session or team-building exercise, product launch, corporate party, or banquet? Disneyland Hotel offers 975 guest rooms and nearly 135,000 square feet of event space. With 52 rooms ranging from 240 to 50,000 square feet, the possibilities are endless.

Hyatt Regency® Orange County

With 653 comfortable guest rooms and nearly 50,000 square feet of event space, the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim is versatile enough for a wide range of corporate events. The hotel has 40 meeting rooms, from small 30- to 40-capacity rooms ideal for board meetings and small training sessions, to large ballrooms with space for 2,000 people for product launches and other corporate parties.

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Ivan Fujihara

Chief Financial Officer

Ivan brings 25+ years in senior level management experience from a variety of technology industries.  His background includes accounting management, analytics and audit management for technology companies.  He has worked with companies such as THX, Ltd, Recruitology , Double Click, Creative Labs and more.  Ivan has also served on the board of Lincoln Families, a non-profit that supports East Bay children with the objective of disrupting the cycle of trauma and poverty.

Matt Rulis

Vice President of Sales

Matt is a marketing professional and has been managing marketing strategies, campaigns and environments for a diverse client base for over 15 years. From a service perspective, Matt and his team of Account Executives focus on fostering relationships to uphold a greater than 99% customer satisfaction rating year-over-year. Additionally, with extensive experience on the client-side of the industry, he understands that alignment between expectation and budget is paramount to a successful project. As a result, ProGlobalEvents' clients can expect a competitive advantage paired with top quality products and services. Matt is an avid fly-fisherman, enjoys most outdoor activities and is a true college football fanatic.

Tom Foley

VP of Operations

Heading the fabrication side of ProGlobalEvents is exhibit and event industry veteran, Tom Foley. For over 35 years he has been responsible for building amazing exhibits and environments for clients. Tom started out in the production area and has broad experience in project and operations management. He currently oversees production, warehouse, graphics and project management departments. Tom studied machine tool technology and welding before entering the industry. As a true "builder" he also enjoys restoring and modifying classic American cars.

Dick Wheeler

President

Dick serves as President of ProGlobalEvents and President of ProExhibits and is a board member of CEMA (Corporate Event Marketing Association). At ProExhibits he has been nationally recognized as an innovator and driving force in the fast-growing trade show exhibit and event industry. Under his leadership in 1997, the firm received INC magazine’s INC 500 award as one of America’s fastest-growing companies. His informative articles on developments and innovations in the trade show exhibit and event industry have appeared in national trade publications. Dick has a B.S. degree from Wittemore School of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire and has completed the Entrepreneurial Executive Leadership Program sponsored by MIT, YEO and INC. He is actively involved in Vistage, an interactive group of over 20,000 CEO’s and presidents worldwide and is a member of CEMA and EDPA.

Jack Connolly

Creative Director

As an experiential creative director, Jack prefers to draw outside the lines. He tells stories with original content and impactful design to ignite meaningful conversation.

 

Jack brings 20 years of event industry knowledge to ProGlobalEvents. He specializes in building live & virtual platforms for audiences to connect, engage and immerse themselves in the power of a shared experience. His skills range from ideation and concept development to defining an attendee journey through storytelling and design.

Jack understands the creative process is not linear, but a collaborative process between agency and client. He manages teams of designers and technology developers to pioneer impactful brand experiences. His diverse skillset and leadership ensure for award-winning results and memorable impressions.

 

In 2019, BizBash named Jack one of the top event designers in North America. SXSW awarded his work the “People’s Choice in Innovation” in 2021.

Jody Tatro

Chief Executive Officer

In addition to being CEO of ProGlobalEvents, Jody is also the CEO of ProExhibits. With Jody at the helm, the company has been recognized repeatedly as one of the Top 50 Women Owned Businesses in Silicon Valley. She has set the outstanding client service standards for which the firm’s account management team is noted. Jody is a recipient of the YWCA’s Tribute to Women Award, the Junior League Community Volunteer Award and is listed in Who’s Who of Women in Business. Following her graduation from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Jody held various sales positions in several technology companies.

Paul Miller

Chief Marketing Officer

Having served in a number of executive roles for companies in Silicon Valley for over 25 years, Paul has a client-side perspective of the corporate events industry. He has a broad set of experiences working for startups as well as global firms such as Applied Materials. At ProGlobalEvents, Paul helps the company to reach clients through traditional and digital marketing programs. With an extensive background in the High Tech sector, he’s also involved with technology strategy both internally and for clients. Paul is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, the Stanford Engineering Design School and Claremont McKenna College. In his spare time he is a also a principal member of the non-profit Gratitude Network which mentors award winning social entrepreneurs.