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Corporate Events
You bring your team, we’ll bring the fun. From private yachts to lavish ballrooms to cooking classes (watch the knife) to collaborative run-out-the-clock problem solving activities, we have you covered Locally & Globally. We can help you cater a dinner for 500 clients or strengthen the spirit of camaraderie and communication within your workplace.
Hybrid Events
2020 has shown businesses it is possible to pivot from a commute to the office to a work from home model. The need to stay connected in a reliable and secure manner has never been greater. We can link you to a platform that will allow your company to conduct meetings and events with confidence.
Event Consulting
Have a vision but don’t know where to start ? The team at VESTI Events will guide you through a step by step checklist in order to execute your event with peace of mind. Our concierge services include direct contacts at the City of Vancouver, as well as many local business and vendor connections.
Business Shower
It’s hard enough taking a chance on instinct or a dream, but it would be SO much better if we lived in an environment that supported us and made the start-up journey easier.Instead of baby showers, let’s host Business Showers. When a friend starts a business, we all come together, congratulate them and bring resources for their business.
Blog & Media
“EG Tips” – 5 Secrets of Successful Event Sales
Event sales are critical to your event success. Here are 5 methods for building your own effective organic database and event sales pipeline and selling more tickets for your events as a result. Too many event professionals these days overlook the event sales process...
“EG Tips” – 5 Tips for Breakthrough Selling in the Events Industry
Event planners are the types of people who like to have their hands in several proverbial pots. To be a successful event planner, you also have to be a good marketer, negotiator, and leader. In addition, event managers often have to make soirees into fields like...
“EG Tips” – 5 Must-Do’s for Your Conference Speakers
Like most jobs, the role of speaker has undergone a change in expectations recently. Speakers must now do more than just present. They must interact with and engage attendees. But asking what the audience thinks once during the presentation, when the question-mark...
“EG Tips” – How to Retain Casual Event Staff
The event and hospitality industry regularly relies on casual event staff and volunteers but this can often bring challenges. This post looks at how to maximize commitment and performance from casual event staff and volunteers. Casual event staff and volunteers are...
“EG Tips” – 5 Secrets of Successful Event Sales
Event sales are critical to your event success. Here are 5 methods for building your own effective organic database and event sales pipeline and selling more tickets for your events as a result. Too many event professionals these days overlook the event sales process...
“EG Tips” – 5 Tips for Breakthrough Selling in the Events Industry
Event planners are the types of people who like to have their hands in several proverbial pots. To be a successful event planner, you also have to be a good marketer, negotiator, and leader. In addition, event managers often have to make soirees into fields like...
“EG Tips” – 5 Must-Do’s for Your Conference Speakers
Like most jobs, the role of speaker has undergone a change in expectations recently. Speakers must now do more than just present. They must interact with and engage attendees. But asking what the audience thinks once during the presentation, when the question-mark...
“EG Tips” – How to Retain Casual Event Staff
The event and hospitality industry regularly relies on casual event staff and volunteers but this can often bring challenges. This post looks at how to maximize commitment and performance from casual event staff and volunteers. Casual event staff and volunteers are...
Biography
Eugenia Gorkowa
Founder & CEO / Epic Events Master
Corporate Event Planner & Producer
Born in Russia and raised in Germany, Eugenia is an accomplished event planner/producer who has built a name for herself and her company VESTI Events in Canada. Eugenia has over thirteen years of experience engineering small and large scale events (20 – 55,000 people). In the past, Eugenia has worked with Global News, KPMG Canada, GOREEA Design, MRG Concerts, Winnipeg Jets, Vancouver Canucks, CFL (BC Lions), Live Nation (AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses), Marketplace Events (Vancouver Home + Garden Show), Contact Music Festival, FIFA, the Vancouver Film industry and more.
Eugenia’s past experience with hospitality and promotion at the Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg and BC Place Stadium in Vancouver has fueled her passion for events and people, resulting in close relationships with vendors and venue contacts across Canada.
Having worked closely with corporate clients, actors, musicians and performers, Eugenia has a unique ability to interact with the most discerning client. Eugenia’s gift of organization, attention to detail, concept design and ceaseless enthusiasm have earned her a reputation for unparalleled excellence as an event planner and producer. Eugenia will execute your concepts flawlessly while maintaining a pleasant, calm and helpful demeanour.
In her spare time, Eugenia loves to meditate, read, travel, watch hockey and hike.