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Sacramento, CA

Both a fast-growing and historic city, Sacramento is home to a diverse mix of people and places. It was in Sacramento that the California Gold Rush began, and now the city’s history is preserved in the iconic Old Sacramento waterfront district.

Sacramento’s city flair and busy art scene make it an exciting place for trade shows, conferences, conventions, meetings, and corporate events. And there are some excellent venues, perfect for corporate events of all kinds. The Sacramento Convention Center offers 384,000 square feet of flexible space, including more than 30 meeting rooms of all sizes. Then there’s the gorgeous Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, a stunning event space just right for holiday parties, galas and receptions, product launches, and other corporate social events.

Want to make your next Sacramento, CA corporate event a smashing success? Talk to ProGlobalEvents to find out what we can do for you! Our expert team of designers, event planners and managers, and tech experts, are just what you need to make sure your event exceeds your expectations. For trade shows, exhibitions, holiday parties, corporate events, and more, make ProGlobalEvents your go-to team!

Need help planning your Sacramento 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.

Event Resources

Sacramento Event Services

At ProGlobalEvents, we do it all. From event design and theme development to event planning, execution, and management, we’re a full-service team with wide-ranging skills and experience. We  can cover every last detail to develop a seamless event experience. Whether it’s team-building activities at a secluded retreat or an industry exhibition in the city of Sacramento itself, we create a seamless event experience for every attendee, exhibitor, and guest.

Event Design

Designing the perfect event is challenging, whether it’s a corporate holiday party, product launch, or trade show. Guests and attendees have high expectations, and designing an engaging event requires creativity and expertise. Planning your next event is easy with ProGlobalEvents on your side. Our expert team of creatives can come up with the perfect theme and design a great event, with branding, digital media, and other content to match.

Event Planning

What are your goals for your next event? Have you lined up sponsors, a venue, and other vendors? Planning even a small gathering involves many hours of work, a large number of tasks, and often, a tight schedule for completion. The ProGlobalEvents team can make event planning a breeze, thanks to expert planners and a long list of industry contacts. We can quickly get to work planning your next event and putting the plan into motion.

Event Management

There’s still a lot of work to do after the planning stage is done. Our team can help with the management side of things once your event starts! With ProGlobalEvents, your event is in great hands. Our team works to make sure the event runs smoothly from start to finish. We’ll be on hand to oversee the whole thing and take care of any issues that arise, with as little disruption to the event as possible.

Exhibit Production and Activation

As event management experts, ProGlobalEvents doesn’t stop at managing the event itself. We can also provide exhibit production and activation services. With access to a 65,000-square-foot production facility and a 64,000-square-foot storage warehouse, we provide exhibit design, manufacture, and storage services. We can even ship exhibits to your venue and arrange labor for installation and tear-down.

Virtual Events

Whether you’re converting a live Sacramento, CA 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 Sacramento 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

How do you know if your event is a success? There’s a lot more to measure than just the number of people who attend. A thorough post-event analysis is essential both to assess the success of the event and glean valuable information for future events. ProGlobalEvents can help you set KPIs before your event and gather and analyze data afterwards to determine how well you’ve met your goals.

ProGlobalEvents Provides the Expertise You Need to Ensure Success

Do you need help planning or managing an event? ProGlobalEvents can take care of one or two aspects or use a full-service team to take on the entire show. Whether the job is big or small, we’re ready to get to your desired outcome.

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Sacramento Event Resources

Sacramento Convention & Visitor Bureau

Sacramento Convention Center

A great location right in the center of downtown Sacramento is just one reason this venue is so popular. With over 200,000 square feet of meeting space and 137,000 of exhibition space, there’s plenty of room for large events here. The exhibition hall has capacity for 14,200. Room capacity ranges from 28 to over 3,800, providing plenty of options for trade shows, meetings, and corporate events.

Tsakopoulos Library Galleria

Looking for a memorable location for a corporate function? This gorgeous location in the City of Trees definitely fits the bill. The Tsakapoulos Library Galleria is a stylish and spacious event location, perfect for product launches, holiday parties, and other corporate events. Along with the main floor galleria, the venue also has two meeting rooms. Each can hold up to 120 people—great for meetings, seminars, training, and more.

Downtown & Vine

If your event needs a venue that’s a little out of the ordinary, Downtown & Vine could be the perfect option. It’s a wine bar, restaurant, live-music venue, and event center all in one—a lively and atmospheric place for corporate parties, wine-and-dine meetings, training sessions, and more.

Cal Expo Expo Center

With 350 acres of landscaped grounds and 18 separate venues, the Cal Expo Expo Center is easily one of Sacramento’s most popular locations for trade shows, exhibitions, and other large events. But it’s a versatile enough venue to be suitable for intimate corporate events, team-building, holiday parties, and virtually any other event you can think of.

Golden 1 Center

Another excellent downtown location, this one has a huge range of options to meet your space and room needs. The Golden 1 Center is suitable for everything from conventions, trade shows, and exhibitions to corporate and company events to meetings of all sizes. Capacity ranges from 10 to over 17,000, making this an incredibly flexible event venue.

Hyatt Regency® Sacramento

The Hyatt Regency in Sacramento has plenty to offer, with 505 guest rooms, 27,000 square feet of meeting and event space, and a great location near the Sacramento Convention Center. The largest space is a 15,500-square-foot ballroom with a capacity of 1,800. The smallest of the hotel’s 19 event rooms are ideal for small meetings of around a dozen people, while larger spaces have a capacity of several hundred.

Sheraton® Grand Sacramento Hotel

Sheraton Grand Sacramento offers 503 guest rooms, along with nearly 20,000 square feet of meeting space, and it’s located in the iconic Public Market Building in Sacramento’s downtown area. With 19 event rooms, including a large, 1,250-person grand ballroom, there’s plenty of scope for corporate parties, meetings, conferences, and other events. Even better, the hotel is right across the street from the Sacramento Convention Center.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sacramento

With 448 guest rooms and 25 meeting rooms, Sacramento’s DoubleTree by Hilton has the space for a wide range of corporate and industry events. The hotel’s event center clocks in at over 32,000 square feet, with both indoor and outdoor spaces. The three largest rooms together can accommodate over 3,000 people, while the remaining rooms hold from 40 people up to several hundred.

Kimpton the Sawyer

This chic boutique hotel is a great option for a wide range of events, from conferences to meetings, corporate functions, and more. There are flexible indoor and outdoor spaces that can hold from a dozen up to 500 and 600 people. With a total of 250 guest rooms, everything is furnished with a simple elegance that makes your event all the more impressive.

Delta King

Looking for something that’s a little out of the box? Sactown’s Delta King delivers! This gorgeous riverboat hotel has a long and storied history. It’s a true local treasure, making it a unique location for meetings, product launches, galas and receptions, team-building and training. Delta King has 44 guest rooms and 11 private meeting rooms, ranging in capacity from 15 to 300 people.

Upcoming Sacramento Events

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.