Events
For companies around the world, in-person or online events are opportunities to connect with customers, partners, and employees on a deeper level. From single-day meetups to week-long conferences, events promote networking, understanding, and collaboration between hosts and their attendees. However, getting from the planning stage to opening day takes a team with the skills, resources, and expertise to handle essential elements, like event identity, audience acquisition, registration, on-site coordination, pre- and post-event communications, and more.
The Lightsource Creative Communications team has over 27 years of experience developing and supporting events of all sizes for a variety of industries, from local non-profits to high-tech international organizations. Explore the clients we’ve served, browse our list of services, and contact us if you’re interested in our help for your next event.
HIGH-TECH
UNITED STATES
Hewlett-Packard Realize the Future Tour: 2008-2010
HP Client Appreciation Superbowl: 2010-2011
Agilent Environmental Compliance Exhibit: 2011
HP CIO Summit: 2012
HP Discover: 2012
Jive Software Customer Appreciation Tour: 2012
JiveWorld: 2012
CA Technologies CIO Circles: 2013-2015
HP Global Partner Conference: 2013
HP Global Partner Conference: 2014
HP Senior Leaders Meeting: 2014
HPE Discover: 2014-2019, 2022, 2023
Nimble Storage Expo: 2014
HP AMS Events Sales Leadership Kickoff: 2015
HP AMS Tradeshows: 2015
HP at Gartner ITExpo: 2015-2016
HP Global Partner Conference: 2015
HP World Tour: 2015
HPE State of Security Tour: 2015
HPE Roadshow: 2015
HPI CES: 2015
Splunk Customer Appreciation Tour: 2015
HP Spectre Launch: 2016
HPE Big Data: 2016
HPE CIO Summit: 2016-2019
HPE Global Partner Conference: 2016-2019
HPE Government Summit: 2016-2017
HPE Protect: 2016
Tanium Sales: 2016
HPE Field Leadership Kickoff: 2017
HP AFTC: 2019
HP Client Appreciation NFL Tour: 2019
HP EDCUCAUSE: 2019
HP Platinum Summit: 2019
HP RTM : 2019
HP SLED Roadshow: 2019
Aligned Automation ActivateNXT: 2022
Black Hat: 2022-2023
HP Amplify: 2022
HP Z Book Tour: 2022
AUSTRALIA
Australasian Laboratory Management Conference: 2018
ENGLAND
HP Commercial Print: 2015
HP Discover 2015 London: 2015
HPE CIO Summit: 2015-2016
HPE Discover: 2015-2016
HP Channel Partner Conference: 2015
HP Ahead of the Curve Fall Showcase: 2016
HPE Field Leadership Kickoff: 2016
FRANCE
HP Software Universe: 2009
SPAIN
HP Software Universe: 2010
HP CIO Summit: 2014
HP Customer Advocacy: 2014
HP Discover: 2014
HP Field Leadership Kickoff: 2014
HP at Mobile World Congress: 2015
HPE at Mobile World Congress: 2016-2019, 2022
HPE CIO Summit: 2017-2018
HPE Discover: 2017-2018
HPE Discover: 2023
VIRTUAL
Keysight Technologies WAVE: 2019-2020
HP Platinum Summit: 2020-2021
HPE at Mobile World Congress: 2020
HPE CIO Summit: 2020
HPE Discover: 2020-2021
HPE Partner Growth Summit: 2020-2020
HP Elite: 2021
HP Platinum Summit: 2021
HPE Executive Forum: 2021
Keysight University Live: 2021
HP Vitality: 2022
NON-PROFIT
UNITED STATES
Respite Care Holiday Ball: 1996-2019, 2021-2023
Poudre Valley Hospital Foundation: Bowling Ball: 1997-1999
Matthew Shepard Foundation Gala: 1998-2019, 2021-2023
Respite Care Perennial Lunch: 2008-2019, 2021-2023
Food Bank: Shared Abundance: 2009
Pathways Hospice: Breakfast in the Park: 2010-2011
Pathways Hospice: A Vintage Affair: 2011-2014
SAVA Soiree: 2015-2023
VIRTUAL
Respite Care Holiday Ball: 2020
Matthew Shepard Foundation Gala: 2021
Respite Care Perennial Lunch: 2020
CONSUMER
AUSTRALIA
CTBUH Tour: 2017
UNITED STATES
Campuspeak Workshop: 2007
Harmony Club: Economic Forecast: 2008
Covidien: Lisa Leslie Tour: 2009
I2SL Annual Conference and Technology Fair: 2019
CPP Wind Engineering: Data Center Webinar: 2020
More than email marketing, paid advertising, and social media, your most powerful business-generation tool is the in-person event. When your customers, prospects, or partners choose to attend, they enter your sales funnel—prescreened, and ready to hear your story.
If you seize this opportunity right, your attendees will hear a unified companywide message—from prepared and engaging speakers—backed by the best audiovisuals.
Lightsource can help you achieve these goals, whether your conference features dozens of speakers, or hundreds. Here’s how…
Our proven passprogram begins weeks before your event, when we provide speakers with messaging and style guidance. Draft presentations then enter an intuitive online portal where skilled copywriters and designers edit and enhance.
Improvements continue on-site, both before and during the event. There, speakers sit down one-on-one with the same professionals who’ve been enhancing their materials all along. The collaboration continues until the speaker feels fully equipped and confident. The right version of all files will arrive at the proper presentation location ahead of time, all thanks to our rigorous version-control and distribution system.
For over 27 years, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies tell their stories with excellence. The passprogram provides presentation access, support, and services every step of the way.
Want to learn more? Here are the details:
Pre-event presentation services:
- Lightsource will review and perform quality control for all presentations that will be used for both the physical and virtual events to ensure they conform to the organization’s brand (colors, fonts, line spacing, bullet formats, etc.).
- Lightsource will create an event-specific PowerPoint template that includes an event/conference slide, an introductory/title slide, a thank-you slide, and a call-to-action and/or survey slide.
- Lightsource will ensure that the slides are legible and will provide editing as needed to improve format and appearance.
- Lightsource will manage presentation review on a CMS platform that can be accessed by all necessary parties.
- Lightsource will provide reporting of presentation development and progress to the content lead.
Pre-event speaker communications:
- Lightsource will create or review speaker communications, such as the FAQ, speaker guidelines, and essential information emails for both the virtual and physical events.
- Lightsource will consult on-site logistic partners to ensure optimal speaker lounge room layout, flow, and required equipment.
- Lightsource will edit all session and demo titles and descriptions as they appear in event promotions and on-site signage.
On-site services:
- Lightsource will be set up and ready to meet with speakers two days prior to the event starting date.
- The presentation review room will be resourced with 2 check-in operators, 4-8 graphic operators, and 2-3 distribution operators.
- To eliminate version-control problems, LCC will provide a single centralized master PowerPoint file repository on-site.
- When presenters come to meet with Lightsource, we will explain the role of the graphic operators and how we can support the presenter.
- Lightsource will track what speakers have visited the room and what actions were taken.
- Lightsource will ensure the following: presentation edits as necessary; compliance to the event template; ensure that embedded videos automatically start; and provide confirmation of approved final file.
- Lightsource will instruct speakers about what they can expect in the presentation rooms, such as audio, video, the PC configuration, how to find files, who to call if they experience trouble, etc.
Post-event services:
- Lightsource will provide all PPT and PDF files for all final presentations. For sessions with embedded videos, we will provide a version of the PPT and PDF without the video embedded in addition to the official version with the video embedded.
- Lightsource will continue to support on-going requests for file updates for 30 days following the event end.