Events Venture Group

Hotel contracts are where most event founders get stuck. The clauses, the negotiations, the back and forth that eats up time and budget. This conversation is about changing that. On April 7 we are bringing together four veterans on every side of these negotiations. Mai Lim has been leading hospitality partnerships at ConferenceDirect and spent years directing Las Vegas convention strategy. Maggie Menozzi Olmetti, MBA, CHIA drives citywide sales for LVCVA and was just named one of 2025's Women to Watch in the industry. Stacey Purcell, CED spent 33 years at Caesars and now negotiates deals globally at HelmsBriscoe. Malia Johnson leads commercial strategy across a growing portfolio at Greens Hotel Group. They are going to show you exactly what to look for, what to negotiate, and how to get to yes. Virtual panel with Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority - LVCVA. Register below. #EVG #EventsIndustry #HotelContracts #EventFounders #LVCVA

The EVG community is growing and so is the team behind it! We're excited to welcome Shepard as an official EVG sponsor. With over a century of experience in event production, logistics, and exhibitor services, Shepard brings the kind of operational depth that our founders can genuinely learn from and lean on. This is what building the future of live events looks like. The right partners in the right room. Welcome to the community, Shepard 🤝🏼 #EVG #EventEntrepreneurs #LiveEvents

The #ThisIsWho series keeps going and this time meet the founders EVG backs. These are the people who had the vision, took the leap, and are now building what the next generation of live events looks like. Isabelle Simon (Flanagan), Nik Milanović, Martin Schilling, Carolyn Dawson, and Joel A. Davis This is who EVG bets on! Stay tuned. #ThisIsWho #EVG #EventEntrepreneurs

Continuing the #ThisIsWho series —this time, meet the members who make EVG what it is! Behind every great community are the people who have already done the work. Built the shows, navigated the hard rooms, and earned the kind of experience that can't be taught. People like David Audrain, Monique Ruff-Bell, and Ray Pekowski This is what "we are all EVG" actually means! Stay tuned. #ThisIsWho #EVG #EventEntrepreneurs

Thrilled to launch a new EVG storytelling series: #ThisIsWho !! EVG didn't come out of nowhere. It was built by people who had already spent decades in the events industry and decided the next generation of founders deserved a real community behind them. Marilú Páez, Marco Giberti, Greg Topalian, and Jay Weintraub are exactly those people. Because EVG isn't just a network. It's a community! Stay tuned. #ThisIsWho #EVG #EventEntrepreneurs

SISO - Society of Independent Show Organisers reminded us why we started EVG in the first place. The most experienced operators in the industry, all in one room, all genuinely invested in what comes next. That energy doesn’t just stay in the room. It’s what we bring back to every founder we back. 🤝🏼 This is what “we are all EVG” means!

We're proud to announce a strategic partnership between Events Venture Group and JEGI LEONIS a globally recognized investment bank serving the media, marketing, information, and technology sectors. Partners like JEGI LEONIS help us bridge between visionary event founders and the capital and strategic advisory support needed to scale. A special thank you to Kathleen Thomas and Kelsey Haar for helping bring this partnership to life! With decades of experience advising founder-led and sponsor-backed companies on M&A and capital raises, JEGI LEONIS brings deep expertise that aligns directly with EVG's mission: backing the next generation of event entrepreneurs. 🚀

At EVG, we believe the future of live events is built by founders who are willing to take risks when others hesitate. Stories like Joel’s are exactly why EVG exists to connect experienced operators with emerging entrepreneurs who are building what’s next. Read the full spotlight below 👇 #EventsIndustry #Entrepreneurship #Tradeshows #EventFounders #EVG

🚀 Today we unveiled DLT – the intelligence platform for longevity, and I couldn’t be more excited about what this means for our industry. For years, the longevity ecosystem has been rich in innovation but poor in structured intelligence. Investors, pharma and founders have had to navigate fragmented data, scattered insights and incomplete visibility into what’s really happening across aging science. DLT changes that. We’ve built an AI-native intelligence platform designed to turn longevity into a living, queryable dataset... starting with more than 600 longevity biotech companies. This is a major evolution for Longevity.Technology as we expand from media into a truly data-centric platform supporting the growth of the global longevity sector. DLT Biotech is just the beginning - with clinics, diagnostics and the broader ecosystem coming next. The longevity industry is accelerating, capital is returning and the timing feels right to bring deeper clarity to the space. If you’re a biotech, investor or pharma team and want to see where longevity is heading, I’d love you to explore what we’ve built. 🔗 Check out the full article: https://lnkd.in/ebiiPWep #Longevity #Biotech #AI #Healthspan #Investment #Pharma

In case you missed it, the EVG Knowledge Center is live on Leaderpass! This means Event Builder Bootcamp content is now available on demand, giving founders and operators continued access to the insights shared during the program. Check out a free preview to get started!