Corporate Event: SC'08 Supercomputing Conference | Austin Corporate Event Planner
Last week Austin hosted the international
- Supercomputing Conference. This conference throws a good party! I was thrilled to help them pull together the details for their Thursday night "Technical Program Reception." Here's a peek...
We transformed Star Hill Ranch into a tour of three Texan heritages - Native American, Mexican, and Old West. Food and entertainment were evenly distributed throughout all three areas, ensuring that all 2,000 guests had somewhere to go and something FUN to do.
The Native American area was complete with a custom tipi, a gazebo cleverly disguised as a hogan, Native American dancers and musicians, painted horses, and posole and roasted corn.
When guests unloaded the 40 charter busses, they immediately stepped into our own Margaritaville. Bustling with mariachis, salsa dancers, and flamenco performers, it was difficult to choose which performance to watch first! We have plenty of bars to keep the lines short and the guests well-hydrated, and the aroma from the quesadillas and tamales was hard to miss!
My favorite area was the Old West area - there was just so much going on! Cowboy storytellers, toe-tapping country music, trick roping.... and then there were the guest-participation activities! Like bull-riding, mechanical lassoing, and instructors helping you to learn how to line-dance - SO FUN!! And I can't forget the food! Guests LOVED the bar-b-que and plentiful desserts, they even made their own s'mores at the campfires.
SUCH a fun event! And the committee I worked with over our year of planning was a group of really great, smart people. This experience was a blast from start to finish.