Lynn Bjostad

Premier Meeting and Event Management is a full-service, comprehensive meeting planning company that is woman-owned since 2002. We start with site selection and contract negotiations all the way to invoice reconciliation and post-event wrap-ups, our team can assist you with every step of the process to ensure the success of your event.

Carol Boyd

CMP

C. Boyd Meetings & Events is a woman-owned meeting and event management company based in Dallas, TX. We specialize in corporate, government, and medical meetings as well as group incentive travel and special events. We assess and conceptualize clients’ needs and desires and make all arrangements necessary to execute their desired vision and goals. Our professional planners can save you time, money, and stress, while ensuring that each meeting or event is flawless. It’s all in the details!

• Member: Alliance of Meeting Professionals (AMP); Meeting Professionals International (MPI)

Tony Cummins

CMP, CMM

THE MEETiNG DEPARTMENT®–your premier partner for seamlessly planning and executing remarkable business meetings and events. With a dedicated emphasis on venue sourcing, contract negotiations, and other procurement challenges, we serve as the cornerstone of your success.

We take immense pride in our role as an extension of your team. With decades of experience, we help you find the best destinations and venues at the best available rates, with terms and conditions to fit your needs and budget. We bring the energy, talent, and resources to support you in all phases of event management.

Let us turn your vision into reality and make your next event an unparalleled success.

• Past President, Meeting Professionals International

• D/FW Chapter2023 MPI D/FW Meeting Planner of the Year

• 2019 Recipient, Colleen Rickenbacher Leadership Award

Sherry DeLaGarza

CMP CMM, DES

Key Standards Event Management LLC is a woman-owned meeting and event management firm based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (USA), serving clients throughout North America. We specialize in experiential strategies for corporate meetings, trade shows, webinar production, and non-profit fundraising events. Our goal is to be an extension of your team while taking your vision and seamlessly turning it into reality, exceeding your expectations. We are adept at full project management (pre, onsite, and post), marketing, vendor sourcing, speaker management, and exhibitor and sponsor development.

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• MPI Global Small Business Owners Advisory Council 2021-present

• Our Friend’s Place (non-profit) Past President 2022 and Advisory Council

• MPI DFW Colleen Rickenbacher Leadership Award 2020

• MPI RISE Award for Industry Leadership 2020

• MPI DFW Past President 2016-2017

• International Special Event Society Texas Star Award (Corporate Event) 2010

• MPI DFW Planner of the Year 2007

Lauren Dunnaway

REACH Meetings & Events offers full-service event management expertise with services including venue sourcing, registration management, full meeting management, training and incentive programs, executive retreats, and event staffing and we operate a fully licensed travel agency. REACH was founded in 2020 by a Fortune 500 consulting and training expert and a meetings industry veteran with deep experience in global meetings management. REACH also has a specialty division focused on medical meetings and reporting. Our founders have a great passion for volunteerism and have served the industry as president of Meeting Professionals International, the Society of Incentive Travel Excellence, a CollinCollege Faculty Member, and were named Connect Marketplace's Top 40 under 40 globally.

Jen Guerrero

CMP

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Maggie Halligan CMP, CMM, VEMM

mhConcepts, founded in 2005, is a full-service global meetings & events, group incentive travel, lifestyle marketing and consumer engagement promotions company. A privately-held, certified woman-owned business, mhConcepts facilitates programs from concept to execution with professionalism, enhanced creativity, and integrity with a commitment to deliver results.​

Sally Mainprize

SMMC, CRP, DES

Iron Peacock Events (IPE) is woman and minority owned, and women-operated. We embody thestrengths of event management with our custom tools and robust structure while delivering experiencesthat result in an amazing and memorable event. We partner withyou to design corporate business eventsthat exceed expectations, increase revenue, inspire attendees to act, and provide you the tangible resultsyou want. With our corporate event services, IPE helps you engage your audience and capture a win foryour business at every step. With each corporate event we produce, we invest in our community—it’sour way of sharing what we’ve been blessed with.

Nann S. Philips

CMP, CMM, DES

Scurry Street Meetings & Events is an independent minority and woman-owned event management firm based in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (USA) area, with clients located throughout the United States. We work almost exclusively with associations and non-profit organizations to make their annual meetings and business events better by providing full-service meeting and event management, end-to-end project management and logistics, onsite event support, contract negotiation, housing management, exhibitor and sponsor development, and more.

• BBB A+ Rated and Accredited

• Member: Alliance of Meeting Professionals (AMP), Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), Senior Planners Industry Network(SPIN)

• Past Board of Directors-MPI D/FW Chapter and PCMA Gulf States Chapter

Marie Peterson 

​Detent Events is led by award-winning, Certified Meeting Professional, Marie Peterson. Our event planners work hard for each and every client, helping them plan and host their upcoming event free of stress and with confidence. Whether you are planning a corporate event, industry conference, or training meeting, get in touch to learn more about Detent Events' portfolio of services.

Diane Smith

CMP, CMM

Global Meeting Concepts, Inc. is a woman-owned meeting management company based in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. We benefit our clients by identifying their meeting objectives, negotiating the best pricing and contract inclusions, and securing cost-saving measures for every aspect of their meeting. Our services include: hotel sourcing, contract negotiation, pre-planning and post-planning management, housing management, and on-site assistance. Our experience is global, as is our industry network, and touches on all categories of business.

• MPI DFW Past President, MPI DFW Chapter Hall of Honor Member

• MPI DFW Chapter Planner of the Year

• Industry Presenter: Richland College Travel, Exposition & Meeting Management Program