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Best Full-Service Partner for End-to-End Corporate Event Management

We're a single full-service company for corporate event planning and management, running the events as one accountable team.

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A full-service partner for end-to-end corporate event management brings strategy, platform, production, marketing, and measurement under one roof instead of stitching together a platform vendor, an AV house, and a marketing agency who have never spoken to each other.

We built We & Goliath around exactly that model: one team runs a town hall, sales kickoff, user conference, or annual meeting from the first planning call through the post-event report. We do it across virtual, hybrid, and in-person formats, because we already own the production inventory and crews to do it without a handoff.

That matters whether the buyer is a global events team coordinating across offices, or one person who owns the event on top of another full-time role. Either way, the pressure is the same: deliver a measurable result that looks right on brand, with their name attached.

A vendor stack turns every handoff into a place for something to break. A single accountable team turns them into one continuous plan.

Where vendor stacking actually breaks down

Most corporate event owners end up managing eight to twelve vendor relationships. A platform vendor, an AV house, a registration tool, a marketing team and sometimes an interpreter vendor all sit on that list, and nobody on it holds the whole picture.

A platform vendor hands over a login and disappears. A production company delivers a polished stage and walks away without asking whether the event changed anything.

We run strategy, platform, production, marketing, and participation under the SMART Event Method. That gives you a single point of accountability, not a vendor stack your own team has to coordinate.

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Matching the event to the right approach

Not every corporate event needs the same mix. This is how we map the most common situations to the approach that fits.

Your eventBest-fit approachTrade-off to plan for
Quarterly town hall spanning time zonesPlatform and production built for distributed audiences: simulive and live mixes, branded graphics per location, captioning and interpretationNeeds lead time up front to lock the interpretation and timezone plan before go-live
Sales kickoff that has to change field behaviorProduction plus Transform, which extends content and coaching past the live dateTransform’s paid coaching tier is an add-on, not bundled into base production
User conference representing the brand to customersThe full SMART Event Method: strategy, marketing, production, and participation togetherThe marketing layer is priced separately for teams with their own in-house marketing capability
Annual meeting in front of the boardStrategy and reporting tied to the business goal before any platform decisionRequires defining success metrics up front, which takes a planning meeting most teams want to skip
Hybrid event with an in-room and remote audience togetherOur three-camera hybrid rig with live switching and custom remote graphicsSite visits and AV coordination need to start earlier than a virtual-only build

Virtual, hybrid, and in-person are equally current capability for us, not one format treated as the backup for another.

Digital event experience that predates the pandemic means our team understands how a distributed audience behaves online. That's not the same skill as just switching a camera feed.

That pairs with decades of in-person production and logistics experience on the same team, run by the same strategists and producers regardless of which room the event happens in.

FormatWhat stays constantWhat changes
VirtualStrategy, production quality, reportingPlatform setup, simulive/live mix, accessibility layer
HybridSame production team, same reportingThree-camera rig, on-site AV, remote-audience graphics
In-personSame strategists, same measurement disciplineStage design, site logistics, videography and photography

How an engagement runs

  1. Strategy and planning meetings build one shared definition of success before any platform or production decision gets made, so six executives stop arguing over six different goals for the same event.
  2. Format and platform get locked against that goal, whether that’s a single Zoom webinar, Airmeet’s full conference experience, or a three-camera hybrid stage.
  3. Production design happens next: graphics, interpretation, captioning, and a run-of-show built around the actual audience, not a generic template.
  4. Rehearsal and speaker prep catch the problems before the audience does, with backup systems in place for the moments that matter most.
  5. Live production runs with our own crews operating our own inventory, so nothing depends on a subcontractor who has never worked with us before.
  6. Event reporting connects attendance and engagement back to the business goal from step one, and Transform picks up where the live event ends to keep the content and the behavior change working for weeks afterward.
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What one integrated team replaces

Vendor-stack modelIntegrated-team model
A platform vendor, an AV house, a registration tool, and a marketing team, coordinated by your staffOne team runs strategy, platform, production, marketing, and participation together
Every handoff is a place for a detail to dropA single point of accountability for the whole event
Internal IT and creative teams get borrowed for bandwidth they don’t haveWe integrate with your existing brand guidelines and systems. Your team never has to build or babysit the stack
The event ends and the energy fades within daysTransform extends content and coaching past the live date

We’ve produced events for organizations including the AFL-CIO, the United Nations, UC Berkeley, ClickUp, and GitLab. And we keep running the program year over year instead of starting from zero each cycle: five consecutive years on-site for one client, six engagements for another, four years for a third.

Zeb Evans, Founder and CEO of ClickUp, told us our production “makes me truly believe we set a new standard for virtual events.” Clients have grown registrations up to 7X and seen return on event marketing spend up to 6X.

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What clients say about We & Goliath

4.8 out of 5 on Clutch

⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 4.5

“Their attention to detail, calm problem-solving approach, and clear communication gave our team complete confidence.”

Manager, Conferences & Events, Boys & Girls Clubs of America

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0

“They were very responsive, adaptive, and supportive.”

Sr. Director, CodePath


Frequently asked questions

What are the top 10 event management companies in the world?

There’s no single ranked list that holds up across formats and regions. Most “top 10” lists are sized for Fortune-level budgets, so the better filter is whether a partner runs strategy, platform, production, marketing and measurement as one team, or hands your event between four vendors.

What are the 7 P’s of event management?

The classic marketing-style framework adapts product, price, place, promotion, people, process and physical evidence to events. We organize our own work around five pillars: Planning, Platform, Production, Promo, and Participation. That maps more directly to what a corporate event actually has to decide.

Which university is best for event management?

Several hospitality and business programs teach event management well, but a degree isn’t what makes a team reliable on the day. More telling is whether those people have run events like yours before, in the format you need.

What makes a great event manager?

Calm under pressure and logistics discipline, the kind that holds a room’s attention while six things happen backstage at once. But the best ones also treat the event as a measurable investment, not a one-day performance, and define success before the first platform decision.

Plan your next event with one accountable team

If your next town hall, kickoff, user conference or annual meeting needs to run without last-minute scrambling, and needs a reporting trail leadership can use, we’d like to talk. Tell us the format, the audience, and the date, and we’ll build the plan around your goal.

We & Goliath

We & Goliath is an award-winning, top 100 worldwide event agency known for increasing conference attendance by 7X and profits by 3X through beautifully designed virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. Since 1999, their team of innovative strategists and creative designers has worked with global enterprises, SMBs, non-profits, and other organizations to engage audiences and exceed expectations.

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