WE’RE A COLLECTIVE OF INDEPENDENT EVENT PRODUCERS IN PORTLAND, OREGON.
We run some of the biggest, coolest events in the city, as well as elite, niche gatherings. We’ve come together; the rising tide lifts all ships. We share resources, leads, tricks of the trade, and space to share our stories. Apart, we were working hard and alone. Together, we support each other, and elevate the quality of events in the city.
Isaac Watson is the founder and Executive Producer at Kickass Conferences, an event strategy and production studio based in the Pacific Northwest. Isaac helps community leaders develop and deliver transformative events for their audiences that inspire them to build a better world.
To date, Isaac has designed meaningful attendee experiences for over 21,000 creative and unconventional people across the U.S and in Europe.
A maker and introvert at heart, when he’s not working his magic behind the scenes in event production, he’s usually at home in Vancouver, Washington working on remodeling projects, gardening, cooking, learning to sew, and building LEGO.
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Whether you need a master stage manager, an operational wizard, or just a professional cord wrapper, Mahala is your gal. With over a decade of experience in event production and program design, she has worn many hats (from executive director to hospitality manager) and can bring varied experiences, passion, and adaptability to any project.
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The Return of the Castle Rock TT
XOXO 2018 featuring LIzzo, Cameron Esposito and John Hodgeman
Fetty Wap with Medium Troy and the Bohemian Dub Orchestra
TechFestNW 2018 featuring Rose Marcario and Kara Swisher
Give!Guide Magazine Release Party 2019 featuring Portugal the Man
Listen Up Podcast Festival 2019 featuring Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Doughboys, Guys We F#@$!d, The Sporkful, and Yo, Is This Racist?
Stephanie is a Portland-based freelance event producer and brand project manager. For the past decade, she has lead projects full time for marketing and design agencies, as well as internally at Airbnb. As a project manager, she specializes in fine-tuning processes that work for independents, small teams, and corporations alike. Stephanie strives to be a critical part of the creative team—by both empowering teams to do brilliant work and by personally contributing and driving creative concepts and decisions.
Throughout her time as a project manager, Stephanie always raised her hands when there was a project that included anything experiential. She managed a nation-wide sales tour, was instrumental in Airbnb’s role at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the Airbnb Open festival of hosting in Los Angeles in 2016, and organized internal events and gatherings. When she set out as a solo-entrepreneur three years ago, she decided to make live events her primary focus. Since that time, she’s produced events and experiences ranging from multi-day conferences, city-wide festivals, fundraisers, speaker events with well known celebrities and influencers, brand and product launches, and parties.
Outside of work, Stephanie loves to spend time with her rescue pup & best bud named Luna, to cook and host for friends, and frequents local music and art events.
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Experienced event producer with an excellent history of working with all of the Supernova team. Skilled in time management, customer service, training, program management, and execution. Her superpower is the Random Task, however, never shying away from gathering zip ties, running errands in box trucks, riding scissor lifts, peeling up floor vinyl, or greeting sponsors. She’s a Jill of all trades, a real Renaissance Woman.
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XRAY.FM
Dropbox Derby
Switchboard
Summer Fair
From her time working in specialty coffee where she emceed international coffee competitions to opening her own cafe in Arizona to relocating to Portland and recruiting students for art college and producing creative career-focused summer camps… Louisa has always had her hands in events. Recently, she has been working on pop-up dinners in Portland and focusing on cannabis events as well. She has a strong background in operations, marketing, hospitality, and retail management.
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Wainani Paikai is an event producer from O‘ahu now living in Portland, OR. With over five years of event experience, her work ranges from large scale fundraisers with thousands of attendees to local business pop-up events to artist workshops.
She is currently building her portfolio in Portland through producing events where the BIPOC community can connect and create. She finds that moving from a minority-majority environment in Hawai‘i inspires her to connect and perpetuate her Hawaiian culture as well as highlight other BIPOC communities.
When she's not working on events she enjoys falling down a stand-up comedy YouTube rabbit hole or a fun happy hour that leads to singing sad ballads and show-tunes at karaoke.
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