The most valuable thing we bring to a show isn't equipment. It's the people who take our calls.
For certain technologies deployed at the highest level of live production, there are fewer than ten people in the world who can run it flawlessly for a major brand. Not ten companies. Ten people.
You won't find them on LinkedIn. You won't find them in a vendor database. They exist in a network built over decades known only to the people they've worked alongside and trust. The people who win Emmys, Oscars and Tonys for feats in categories that never make it to air.
Knowing who to call is the first problem. Getting them to pick up is the second. Securing them for your show before they've committed to someone else's? That's the secret to a show's success that clients never see.
This is the relationship economy in live events. And the competition is fierce.
I have spent my entire career not only working with top talent but nurturing those relationships so that when these people have three shows being offered to them, mine is the one they take.
One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is that over and over my team is the one that the best of the best choose to work with.
When you work with AEON, you're not just hiring production capability. You're accessing a network that took each member of our team decades to build: the right screens producer, the right technical director, the right operator who has run that exact technology at that exact scale before.
You can source a production company.
You cannot source the relationships.