There is a common misconception in the world of corporate events that professional event production only matters for large conferences or major stage productions. After producing hundreds of small events every year for more than a decade, we have learned that small, intentional changes can dramatically improve engagement with meeting content.

In the world of live event production and audiovisual services, there is a common perception that production companies focus primarily on large conferences, complex stage productions, and technically demanding shows. From the outside, that perception makes sense. But they are not the events that define the work.

Canada is a service economy. The services sector makes up about three-quarters of the country’s economic output. Technicians, managers, designers, and operators whose work is local by nature; the people who deliver that work live here, pay taxes here, and build their careers here. So, in a service economy, we are not fighting for the work — Canadians already do it. We are fighting for ownership of the value that work creates.