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Baltimore, MD

The renewal of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor district has made it an increasingly popular destination for both leisure and business travel. Baltimore is home to some great event venues, including the Baltimore Convention Center. At 1.2 million square feet, it’s the city’s largest venue. Oriole Park and the New Psalmist Retreat & Meeting Center offer additional options, while the Maryland Science Museum contributes unique exhibit spaces and galleries. The Maryland city also has a number of mid-size hotels with varying amounts of event space.

Are you planning an event in Baltimore, MD? Ensure your success by working with ProGlobalEvents! Our team of designers, project managers, and other experts can take care of every aspect of your Baltimore corporate event. From company holiday parties to product launches, exhibitions, and trade shows, ProGlobalEvents has you covered!

Need help planning your Baltimore 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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Baltimore Event Services

ProGlobalEvents offers a full range of event services, including event design and planning, production and management, and post-event analysis. Whether you need a little help or a full-service team, we’ve got what you need! From design to attendee experience to venue and vendor selection to event activation and management, we can do it all to create an unforgettable event your guests will love.

Event Design

Attendee needs and expectations are higher than ever before, which makes it increasingly difficult to provide an event experience with the all-important wow factor. With ProGlobalEvents on your side, you can feel confident that your event design will be top-notch. Our creative team are design experts, with the skill to develop the perfect event theme and the visual branding, digital media, and A/V content to match.

Event Planning

From trade shows to meetings, to team-building exercises and company parties, the average corporate or industry event requires a lot of work in the planning stages. When you need help planning your Baltimore event, ProGlobalEvents are the people to call. Our event planning team can quickly get to work finding sponsors and vendors, negotiating venue and accommodation contracts, and taking care of every last planning detail.

Exhibit Production and Activation

We’re a full-service event management team, which means we can handle the production and activation of exhibits too. With access to a 65,000-square-foot production facility and a 64,000-square-foot storage warehouse, we offer design and production services and exhibit rentals, along with storage, shipping, and installation.

Event Management

Once the event goes live, it’s vital to have a great team on-site in Baltimore to take care of whatever situations arise. With the ProGlobalEvents management crew on hand, you can be sure your event will run smoothly and problems get handled quickly, with minimal disruption. Once we’re on the job, you can relax, knowing your event is in good hands!

Virtual Events

Whether you’re converting a live Baltimore, MD 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 Baltimore 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

Once your Baltimore event is over, a comprehensive post-event analysis is the best way to gauge success. ProGlobalEvents can perform a thorough review, with data collection and analysis, along with a financial review, to help you evaluate how you did.

ProGlobalEvents Provides the Expertise You Need to Ensure Success

Need help planning or managing a Baltimore, MD event? Or do you need a full-service team to take over the entire show? ProGlobalEvents are the ones to call.

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1840s Plaza

1840s Plaza is a slice of local history: an elegant venue with 4 event rooms and 11,000 square feet of space. Three of the rooms are ideal for groups of up to 250 people, while the largest space is a 4,000-square-foot ballroom for up to 350. The hotel adjacent to the plaza has smaller rooms for groups of 12 people, providing extra flexibility for meetings, seminars, training sessions, holiday parties, and other company events.

The Baltimore Convention Center

The Baltimore Convention Center offers a total of 1.2 million square feet of meeting and event space, including:

  • 300,000 square feet of exhibition space
  • 50 meeting rooms
  • A 36,000-square-foot ballroom

The ballroom has a maximum capacity of 2,500, while the meeting rooms range from 45 people up to rooms for groups of 425. With so much space, the Baltimore Convention Center is ideal for conventions and conferences, trade shows and exhibitions, meetings and training sessions, and corporate functions.

Maryland Science Center

With more than 100,000 square feet of event space and several unique rooms, the Maryland Science Center is a spectacular event venue. Along with a tented outdoor rooftop space with fantastic harbor views, the center offers an observatory for nighttime stargazing, as well as the museum’s exhibit spaces and galleries. The Maryland Science Center is great for team building activities, meetings, conferences, receptions, holiday parties, and corporate functions.

New Psalmist Retreat & Meeting Center

The New Psalmist Retreat & Meeting Center offers around 100,000 square feet of space and a total of 7 rooms. These include:

  • 4 meeting rooms for up to 80 people
  • An auditorium that seats up to 3,600
  • An 80-person private dining room
  • A ballroom that can accommodation banquet seating for 550 and receptions up to 1,000 people

A great venue for banquets, receptions, and other private events, along with meetings, small conferences, seminars, and training sessions.

Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Oriole Park, home of the Baltimore Orioles, offers a number of different event spaces, including:

  • Club rooms and lounges
  • Banquet halls
  • A restaurant and brew pub
  • A rooftop bar
  • Eutaw Street

The park’s event facilities can accommodate meetings, corporate functions, and receptions for 50 to 2,500 people. On Eutaw Street, there’s room for up to 5,000 guests for larger, more informal parties.

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront

With 752 guest rooms, 42 event rooms, and 80,000 square feet of meeting and event space, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront is a great option for meetings, seminars, conferences, and training sessions, as well as corporate functions. Along with a 16-person boardroom and meeting rooms for 40 to 250 people, the Marriott Waterfront offers larger event rooms for 550 to 750 people and a 19,000-square-foot ballroom, which can seat up to 2,800.

Hilton® Baltimore Inner Harbor

With 757 guest rooms, the Hilton in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor district is located near several major city venues. It’s also connected to the Baltimore Convention Center via an enclosed skybridge, making it convenient for event attendees. The hotel is also a great event venue in its own right, with 100,000 square feet of event space and over 30 meeting rooms. A 25,000-square-foot ballroom for up to 3,000 people, along with a second smaller ballroom and meeting rooms for groups of up to 600 make this a highly flexible venue. The Hilton is a great option for conferences and meetings, training sessions, seminars, private parties, and other Baltimore corporate functions.

Hyatt Regency® Baltimore Inner Harbor

This Hyatt Regency offers 488 guest rooms and more than 35,000 square feet of flexible event space, which includes a 14,000-square-foot ballroom for up to 1,000 people and an outdoor terrace for 500. The hotel also has more than 25 additional event spaces, from the 12-person boardroom up to meeting and event rooms for 400 people. Ideal for meetings, seminars and training sessions, and corporate functions, the Hyatt Regency is also directly connected to the Baltimore Convention Center via skybridge, making it an even more desirable location.

Lord Baltimore Hotel

The historic Lord Baltimore Hotel has a great location in the heart of the city’s downtown district and offers 440 guest rooms and 18,000 square feet of meeting space. Its beautifully elegant event rooms include a 9,000-square-foot ballroom that can accommodate up to 800 people and 20 additional event rooms for groups of 40 to 220.

Sheraton® Inner Harbor Hotel

With 338 guest rooms and nearly 23,000 square feet of event space, the Sheraton is another great option for meetings and conferences, seminars and training sessions, and intimate corporate functions. The hotel’s largest space is its 7,500-square-foot ballroom, which can accommodate up to 1,200 people. A second smaller ballroom can accommodate 375, while the remaining 15 rooms range from 25-person meeting rooms to rooms for up to 350.

Upcoming Baltimore Trade Shows

Jack Connolly

Executive 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.

Jerome Nadel

Chief Marketing Officer

Jerome Nadel is Internationally experienced design-led marketing executive (CMO and GM) with a track record of improved market position, revenue growth, and M&A. He is an advance degreed psychologist and user experience product/service design expert, board member and advisor.

 

Prior to joining ProGlobalEvents |ProExhibits |XtendLive, he has had a variety of chief marketing officer and chief user experience officer roles at companies including Rambus, BrainChip, Human Factors International, SLP InfoWare, Gemplus, and Sagem. He started his career in the IBM Human Factors Labs.

 

He is also an avid cyclist with National and multiple California State Champion titles.

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.

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.