Started during the worst year in events history

CrowdEvents was founded in September 2020 by Jamie Kowalski and Marcus Reed, two event producers who had just watched their employer lay off the entire operations team. The in-person events industry was frozen. Nobody was hiring.

Instead of waiting for the industry to come back, Jamie and Marcus started producing virtual events for small companies that still needed to reach their audiences. The first project was a 120-person virtual product launch for a Boulder startup. The budget was $4,000. The event ran without a hitch, and the startup's CEO introduced them to three other founders that same week.

By mid-2021, the team had grown to six and was running two or three virtual events per month. When in-person events returned in late 2021, the company was in a rare position: they knew how to run both formats well. Hybrid events, which most firms were fumbling, were a natural fit.

Today CrowdEvents is a team of 20, based out of an office on Lawrence Street in downtown Denver. The company produces corporate conferences, community gatherings, and hybrid experiences across 38 states. The work ranges from intimate 50-person executive retreats to multi-day conferences with 800+ attendees.

The team is built from people who have worked events from every angle: production managers who have loaded trucks at 5 AM, AV engineers who have troubleshot failing projectors during a keynote, and coordinators who have managed a hundred volunteers at an outdoor festival. We hire people who have been on the floor, because that is where the problems happen and where the solutions are found.