Circle of Excellence National Incentive Launch

November 2008 saw EMG traveling around five states of Australia on a road show for the Circle of Excellence staff incentive launch.

The Events Management Group chose venues that were a 'little out of the ordinary'.

EMG's role was to style each gala dinner by sourcing venues, entertainment, creating on screen presentations and theming for up to 600 guests at each event. As each venue had its own nuances, we needed to create a concept and theme that matched the client's requirement to showcase the staff incentive trip to Paris and launch the new incentive trip to New York. EMG chose venues that were a 'little out of the ordinary' including the Adelaide Rail Museum with dinner set amid antique trains and Wharf 8 Overseas Passenger Terminal on the waters edge in Sydney's Darling Harbour.

One of the challenges was to come up with a concept which could be adapted to five totally different venues around Australia, clearly linked to the incentive destinations of Paris and New York whilst being cost effective and easily transportable. To achieve this EMG created a 2 dimensional table centerpiece die cut to represent on one side the Eiffel Tower and on the other side the Empire State Building in their entire splendor at night. To work within the budget where required, EMG sourced local providers in each state as opposed to transporting major infrastructure.

At each of the five venues, EMG created an elegant look and feel which could be found in Paris or a New York Club, with black table overlays, black chair covers and custom made centerpieces.

As each guest arrived at the venue the look and feel of the room was Paris. Each event kicked off with a speech by the Chief Operating Officer then moved onto the rousing awards presentations, with specifically designed onscreen content using the latest multimedia and strong music support to fully engage the audience. To ensure EMG maintained our client's expectations and the integrity of each event, we transported our key AV crew and entertainers to each event in each state. This ensured that every guest in every state received the same experience.