480+ corporate events · 5 years
Book corporate events in New Orleans that fit around parade routes, festival weekends and hurricane season. We bring simulators, photo booths and AV to the convention center, the CBD or the French Quarter.
Many New Orleans venues have a story guests remember. We match the stations to the room so they add to it.
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
It runs more than half a mile along the Mississippi, with roughly 1.1 million sq ft of exhibit space in 11 halls and 140 meeting rooms. The Great Hall is a 60,300 sq ft ballroom without columns, and the Rivergate Room next to it opens onto a rooftop terrace.
Caesars Superdome
Home of the Sugar Bowl and host of eight Super Bowls, most recently in February 2025. A $450 million renovation rebuilt its concourses and suites before that game.
Mardi Gras World
The working studio where Blaine Kern's company builds parade floats, in a 300,000 sq ft riverfront building near the convention center. It hosts corporate events among the floats.
The National WWII Museum
Its US Freedom Pavilion holds a B-17 and other aircraft overhead. A flight simulator next to them is an easy theme for a client night, subject to the museum's approval.
Outdoor programs in the heat
For outdoor programs in the heat, see the outdoor summer social for Capital Group's employees, where we put up shade tents and ran our own power distribution for five stations.
Read the Capital Group casePlan around the festivals first, then the trade shows. On festival dates, hotels, streets and loading zones fill up fast.
We plan the truck route and the paperwork, so your stations arrive on time even in parade season.
At the Morial Convention Center
Louisiana is a right-to-work state. The center has its own electricians, carpenters and plumbers, and an in-house production team for lighting, audio, video and rigging that also supports outside contractors. Your show's general contractor runs its own marshaling yard, so we follow the freight instructions in your exhibitor kit.
Street events and second lines
City event permits go through the One Stop App. A second line, parade or race needs its own permit filed at least 15 days before, plus a police escort. A for-profit event with three or more vendors posts a $10,000 performance bond.
Insurance
We send insurance documents to the Morial Convention Center, your hotel or show management on request. For a street event, we match the certificate to the city's permit.
Each district sets a different mood and a different load-in.
Touring the Gulf Coast? We have two bases, Los Angeles and Orlando, and work across the U.S. We plan corporate events in Houston and corporate events in Atlanta too.
Three industries shape many events in the city.
The region handles a large share of U.S. oil refining and petrochemical production, and it is an office base for onshore and offshore oil and gas. Entergy is the city's only Fortune 500 headquarters. For energy teams, we plan client receptions and team days, where a truck or racing simulator with a leaderboard fits the crowd.
The Port of New Orleans is the sixth-largest cruise port in the U.S. and Louisiana's only international container port. At a show like the International Workboat Show, a racing or truck simulator gives visitors a reason to stop at an exhibitor's booth.
Tourism and conventions bring in about $5.5 billion a year and 40% of city tax revenue. With 26,000 hotel rooms within 2.5 miles of downtown, the city hosts association meetings that want an evening program built for them.
You hire one team for the full program, with one quote.
The AI photo booth is a full-length 65-inch touch-screen mirror. Guests choose a branded look, such as a Mardi Gras mask theme, and get a portrait in seconds, printed or sent to their phone. More formats are on our photo booth rental page.
QSC speakers, wireless microphones, mixers, screens and projectors, with a technician who stays through the program. At the convention center we work next to its in-house team. Details are on our AV rental page, and our audio setup for an indoor presentation shows a typical job.
For a group in town for a convention, the program can start in a CBD hotel ballroom with racing heats and VR games, then move to Frenchmen Street. Our operators run the rounds. See the team building formats.
A truck simulator suits a Workboat Show booth, and a flight simulator fits a client night at the WWII Museum. Racing simulator rental in New Orleans, VR and AI networking round out the list, each with an operator. Every station is listed in interactive event rentals.
Yes, with a plan for the parade routes. Parades roll in the weeks before Mardi Gras day, February 9, 2027, and streets on the routes close while they pass. We set load-in times around the parade schedule, so book early.
The season runs from June 1 to November 30, and it peaks from late August through September. For an event in those months, we agree on an indoor backup room with the venue and a decision time the day before.
No. Louisiana is a right-to-work state. The center's in-house electricians connect power, and its production team handles rigging, so we tell you exactly what to order.
Yes, with shade and power planned. August is the warmest month, with average daily temperatures near 84°F. We bring tents and power distribution, as we did on an outdoor plaza for Capital Group.
Yes. File the parade permit at least 15 days ahead through the One Stop App, and the city adds a police escort.
Yes. We agree the plan with the venue, line up AV, and set the stations among the floats or under the aircraft. How we quote explains what shapes the total.
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Include the event type, the date, the venue or district, the number of guests and your budget. We'll reply with availability and a plan. Or call +1 213 912 1010
