
Agenda
Track
Getting Paid Faster: Smarter AR Tools & Reporting
Marley Kezerian
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:30 - 17:15 EDT Richardson B
Enterprise
Let Clients Book Your Space Themselves: The Booking Portal Preview Workshop
John Schettler, Jonathan Mahler, Trista Whitehead
Wednesday September 16, 2026 16:30 - 17:15 EDT Richardson A
Elite
Space booking is the request your team fields most and automates least. This working session previews where the Momentus booking portal is headed, from a client submitting a request to a confirmed hold, without a phone call. You'll see the designs, then help us decide what ships first.
Tour: Truist Field
Wednesday September 16, 2026 18:00 - 19:00 EDT Truist Field
General
This is an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Truist Field, home of the Charlotte Knights, offered at no additional cost to Illuminate attendees. Registration must be completed before August 31. Capacity is limited to 100, with a waitlist available.
Illuminate Party at Truist Field
Wednesday September 16, 2026 19:00 - 22:00 EDT Truist Field
General
Answers Without the Hunt: Ask Mo in Action
Nate Thomas, Tim O'Connor
Thursday September 17, 2026 08:30 - 08:55 EDT Richardson CD
Enterprise
Twenty-five minutes with Ask Mo, the assistant that answers questions about your venue and your platform without you going to find the report. Learn what it handles now, where the answers got noticeably better, and what it's still learning.
Momentus Elite Operations Hub
Jonathan Mahler, Trista Whitehead
Thursday September 17, 2026 08:30 - 08:55 EDT Richardson B
Elite
Learn more about how to use Elite's new Operations Hub to streamline your complex event operations in Momentus Elite with centralized information, timely updates, and progress tracking.
Design the Room, Then Sell It: Room Diagramming in Momentus Enterprise
Eric Blouin, Seth Halvaksz
Thursday September 17, 2026 08:30 - 08:55 EDT Richardson A
Enterprise
For decades, venue teams have built room diagrams in disconnected CAD tools, then manually re-created service orders and work orders from scratch — a process ripe for errors and wasted hours. This session explores how embedding live, bidirectional diagramming directly into venue management software closes that gap, letting diagrams and service orders update each other in real time. We'll walk through the operational pain points this solves, the design decisions behind syncing diagrams to live event data, and what early adopters are already seeing in their day-to-day workflows. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of how this shift can streamline setup accuracy and reclaim significant staff time.
Ask Better Questions of Your Data: A Momentus Analytics Deep Dive
Rich Marmura
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 EDT Richardson CD
General
Move past the reports you inherited and build the views your leadership actually asks for, using AI to get from question to answer without a data team in the middle.
Feature FOMO: 5 Tools You’re Probably Not Using, But Should Be (Advanced)
Jeremy Elmore
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 EDT Richardson B
Enterprise
One Front Door for Exhibitors and Clients: An Event Hub Preview Workshop
Tragen Herrick, Trista Whitehead
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 EDT Richardson A
Enterprise
Your exhibitors and clients deal with your venue through whatever portal they were handed. This working session previews the direction for Event Hub, the exhibitor experience, and the service center as one front door, then asks you to stress-test it. Bring the complaints you get most from the people outside your organization.
Break
Thursday September 17, 2026 09:45 - 10:15 EDT Richardson Pre-Function
Roundtables: IT & Systems Management
Courtney Covey, Gardy Noel, Joel Nisbett
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:00 EDT Richardson Pre-Function
General
This session brings together IT professionals, system managers, analysts, and developers to explore common challenges and share strategies. While participation isn’t limited to those in technical or system administration roles we expect most attendees will bring experience working at this scale and complexity, many within conventions, exhibitions and events companies. The focus is on the problems you’re solving and the approaches that work, not on specific Momentus products. If you have any topics you would like considered, please reach out to Illuminate@gomomentus.com.
Roundtables: Sales & Marketing
Katie Eisenbath, Kelli Donahoe, CMP-Fellow
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:00 EDT Richardson CD
General
Connect with other sales and marketing professionals to explore strategies for driving demand, managing pipelines, and promoting events. Hear what’s working for your peers and bring your own ideas, challenges, and wins to the table. If you have any topics you'd like considered, please reach out to Illuminate@gomomentus.com.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Driving Operational Efficiency in Elite
Amber Lough
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:00 EDT Richardson B
Elite
Break Up with the Binder: Less Paper, More Power for Event Operations
Justin Wittrock
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:00 EDT Richardson A
Enterprise
Roundtables: Event Planning, Services and Operations
Amy Durbin, Graeme Bice, Jillian Stangret, Kaitlyn McAdams
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15 - 12:00 EDT Richardson CD
General
This session brings together event professionals who plan and execute events for an open discussion on shared challenges and strategies. Connect with peers who work at a similar scale, exchange ideas, and learn how others are approaching the same issues (whether or not they use the Momentus products to solve them). The conversation is centered on the challenges you’re solving and the solutions that are working. If you have any topics you would like considered, please reach out to Illuminate@gomomentus.com.
What’s New in Event Detailing: Working Faster with the New Interface
Amber Lough, Michelle Hannaford
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15 - 12:00 EDT Richardson B
Elite
Build Your Own Agent Workshop: A First Look at the Momentus Agent Builder
Jonathan Mahler, Nate Thomas
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15 - 12:00 EDT Richardson A
General
Every venue has workflows no vendor will ever ship for you. This working session previews the Agent Builder, where your team describes a process in plain language and Momentus builds the agent to run it. You'll see early designs, work through your own use cases with the team that's building it, and tell us where we have it wrong.
Celebrating You: Awards Luncheon & Closing Reflections
Melora Cybul, Steve Mackenzie
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:00 - 13:15 EDT Richardson CD
General
The Momentus Secrets Nobody Tells You (Ask Us How We Know)
Jillian Stangret, Jillian Stangret, Michael Becker, Michael Becker
Thursday September 17, 2026 13:30 - 13:55 EDT Richardson CD
General
Every power user has a few tricks they picked up the hard way. This is the roundtable to pool them: shortcuts, workarounds, settings nobody reads the docs on. Come with at least one tip to trade and leave with a notebook full of new ones.