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Call for Speakers for CS+TSE 2024 is now open!

The deadline for speaker/session submissions is June 16, 2023 at 11:59 pm CST.

We just wrapped a fantastic Catersource + The Special Event 2023! We are certainly feeling inspired and energized for the year ahead. In that spirit, we'd like to share our 2024 Call for Speakers! Take a moment and submit your topic for Catersource + The Special Event 2024, which will be held Feb 12-15 in Austin, TX. It's going to be an ultra-creative conference loaded with fresh and impactful content and we want to hear from you now so we can build our best program yet.

Additionally, here are a few shots from the week so that you can relive all the fun from Orlando!

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The entertainment throughout the week involved a lot of electrifying violin performances, like this one at Connect Live. Photo courtesy WASIO Faces

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On the tradeshow floor, exhibitors like Pzazz Productions let out their "wild" side. Photo courtesy WASIO Faces

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Attendees on the Venue Tour get inspired at The MEZZ. Photo courtesy WASIO Faces

Where & When: February 12-15 in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center. We are partnering once again with Catersource Conference & Tradeshow, with a combined tradeshow floor that will bring over 5,000 professionals and 300 suppliers together to provide an unmatched opportunity to source, network, and learn in one-sensory stimulating environment. You can immerse yourself in a spectacular event that encompasses everything catering- and event-related. The alliance of these powerful, established brands will bring unique industry all-stars from both worlds—under one roof for four momentous days. 

Our Audience: Our audience is in the business of helping people celebrate the most important milestones in their lives. They are on and off-premise, executing private parties to multiple day festivals, hiring food trucks, and ensuring a safe and successful day for all. Those in the event industry are some of the hardest working people in business today. Our audience is comprised of top-level professionals who have been in the industry a long time, but also may bring new hires, and/or recently promoted planners, managers, and salespeople. Attendees may be representing a small company in a big town, a big company in a small town or a $500 million company in a densely populated metro area. But they are all at The Special Event Show for the same reason: to be wowed with new products, new education, new ideas—and network, too.

How to Apply: Click here to fill out your submission, and to get all other details as well as some ideas to get you thinking about the kind of session you'd like to present.

The Education: Over 120+ sessions will span the length of the conference, within tracks such as:

  • Business & Professional Development
  • Design
  • Event Management & Production
  • Event Safety & Technology
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Weddings
  • Sustainability

New this year! 30-minute Fast Chats—no powerpoint, no traditional presentations–have been added to the schedule. One topic, raise a discussion with your audience, get some answers or solve a problem!

The best food & beverage, the hottest decor, the most beautiful venues, the best events, making a sale, marketing your company, retaining and rewarding your employees, building a new revenue-generating sector—all explained to our audience in a way that doesn't pander or promote, but educates. Please try to stick to your top three ideas/proposals only.

Note: if reading this makes you feel as if your proposal might be a better fit for Catersource Conference & Tradeshow, click here to be taken to that Call for Session page. Sessions will be vetted by both staffs, however.

Your Deadline: The deadline for speaker/session submissions is June 16, 2023 at 11:59 pm CST.

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