Sponsor Bios

The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau is the official, accredited destination sales and marketing organization for Greater Miami and Miami Beach. A global leisure and business destination that delivers culturally rich, diverse, and innovative experiences inspiring boundless passion in visitors and residents alike.

Convention Data Services (CDS), a Freeman Company, is the trusted event registration, business intelligence, and lead management partner servicing top show organizers worldwide. Headquartered in Bourne, MA, CDS has been providing customized applications and support services for more than 30 years. cdsreg.com 

AFR Furniture Rental offers stylish, modern furniture and display rentals for corporate meetings, trade shows, conferences, and conventions nationwide. We carefully craft the details of every furniture rental experience around you, working on your terms and going the extra mile so you don’t have to.

Effortlessly enhance your trade show booths, exhibit displays, or conference venues into impactful and engaging experiences with our deep catalog featuring an unbeatable selection of quality furniture, accessories, and displays at your fingertips. Elevate your booth or event design with advanced 3D space planning, easy online ordering, and expert client support agents who are available to help you throughout the entire process.

With 45+ years of industry experience, 24 strategically located warehouses across the US, and a growing family of 700+ passionate and wildly creative teammates, AFR provides you with the highest degree of service and versatility available today. Enjoy the flexibility and peace of mind that come along with selecting an innovative, stress-free furniture rental company that exhibitors, exhibit houses, and contractors have relied on for decades. Author the moment with AFR Furniture Rental.

About Event Transportation Systems (ETS) 
Let Event Transportation Systems (ETS) take meeting transportation planning and execution off your plate! With more than 35 years of experience in providing customized solutions, ETS provides shuttle transportation for corporate and association conferences & conventions; group airport transfers; VIP transportation; and special event & tour transportation services.

Why Choose ETS? 
ETS employs an experienced team to navigate through the numerous details and nuances of designing and executing transportation plans that move attendees safely between venues.  ETS also provides numerous value-added benefits including detailed ridership reports that deliver evidence of accurate system design and efficiency.

How ETS Can Help Offset Costs
ETS’ sponsorship services division, Newsday Communications offers customized solutions for generating revenue via shuttle advertising to offset the cost of transportation.  Shuttle bus graphics help exhibitors promote their brands and new products.  Shuttle videos provide an effective communication channel for both organizations and sponsors to promote key messaging to a captive audience riding buses.

How ETS uses Technology to improves the Customer Experience 
In addition, ETS has developed proprietary GPS-enabled shuttle tracking technology that powers the ETS-Next-Shuttle transportation app for attendees and provides another layer of vehicle monitoring tools for the operations team.

Established in 1996 and based in Arlington, Texas, Custom Registration Inc. is a family owned & operated event registration and lead retrieval services provider. CRI’s suite of services centers around its custom-built and proprietary platform, which is heralded for its flexibility to conform to client needs, whether simple or complex. The family feel approach drives the company culture and extends into the service model that its teams bring to planning events.

Understanding companies are challenged with many different objectives for any given trade show, our focus is to provide and maintain a flexible system that meets and exceeds those objectives.  While continually enhancing our software and service packages, our staff concentrates on meeting not only the unique needs of event managers, but the changing needs of their registrants as well.  With our data entry programs, various reporting options, and database management services, Custom Registration, Inc. can offer organizers a complete service package that is one of the most comprehensive offered in the industry.

MCI USA is a global marketing and engagement agency that creates human-centric solutions that engage and bring people together while helping to solve our clients’ key challenges and shape their tomorrow. MCI’s innovative solutions deliver future-proof strategies and services that keep your organization thrive in the digital age.

Live and Virtual events  
Your brand experiences, events, and meetings created in live and digital realms. We discover how to develop and communicate your messaging across various platforms.

Strategic and Digital communications  
Your communications designed with human insights that help you lead your audience across your content, image, and MarTech.

Consulting and Community Solutions 
Your global strategy and business model transformed. We expertly manage your assets and grow your revenue with relevant educational and sponsorship strategies.

We are MCI USA!

Thank you for your interest in Oscar & Associates, the nation’s leading provider of photography to the trade show, conference and events industry.

We believe that photography is a collaborative effort, and we look forward to working together with our clients to create the most effective and interesting visual content for them and their members.

We believe that when we help grow our client’s business, they will be able to do good for their team and communities. We know firsthand that when we help grow our client’s business, we can do good for our team and our community.

Oscar & Associates never stops innovating, streamlining and improving on the services we provide our clients. We are focused on what’s right and what more can we do. We will never be perfect, but we never stop trying to get there.

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to listen to your goals and objectives for photography and to share our ideas and approach to all interested associations, organizations and individuals. Thank you.

Freeman is the global leader in events. Whether virtual, in-person, or hybrid, we are on a mission to redefine live for a new era. With a data-driven approach and the world’s largest network of experts, our insights are shaping exhibitions, exhibits, and events that drive audiences to action. Our integrated full-service solutions leverage a 100-year legacy in event management as well as new technologies to deliver moments that matter.

The leading event solution for nonprofits and commercial enterprises, Personify A2Z Events includes everything needed to manage and optimize your exposition, tradeshow or conference. Our powerful, SaaS-based tools deliver end-to-end support for event management tasks, allowing you to streamline floor plan management, event websites, online contracts, sponsorships, speaker management, reporting and more. Purpose-built and proven, maximize events and deliver experiences with A2Z Events.

Among the top three service contractors in North America, Fern provides unmatched customer service, best-in-class creativity, and innovative solutions for trade shows and events held throughout the U.S. and Canada.  With offices and personnel located from Washington DC to Washington State.  As one of North America’s top three service contractors, we serve more than 1400 trade shows and events annually, including 17 of the recent Trade Show Executive Gold 100 events.

We are an experienced partner with market insight, venue knowledge, and nationwide relationships to help you navigate any destination.  While we are one of the largest service contractors in North America, providing an experienced national presence, we are most proud of the neighborhood feel we provide our clients and their stakeholders.

Fern is dedicated to first understanding our client’s objectives, specific to each event and the broader goals of the client organization.  This attitude toward understanding and then serving extends to how we engage and serve exhibitors, sponsors, and other event participants.  As a result of our personalized approach to service, we have consistently delivered an event experience with results exceeding client expectations since 1909.

Reach us at nationalsales@fernexpo.com or call 888-621-3376

GES is a global full-service provider for the exhibitions industry. We create impactful and influential exhibitions for our clients by leveraging the right blend of hard-earned experience, fresh ideas, and deep industry knowledge along with strategic insight. GES’ “Grow Together” approach fuels growth strategies to assist clients in successfully maximizing their show-floor presence and sponsorships, while providing data-driven solutions to boost revenue. Our mission is to deliver extraordinary exhibition experiences through simple, user-friendly services and best-in-class execution.

In business since 1984, onPeak has become the leading player in the business of providing hotel accommodations for events all over the world. As part of a global network of leaders in the services industry, onPeak has the experience and technology to contribute to the complete event experience, both on and off the show floor.