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Special D Events is a national meeting and event planning agency, and Detroit's longest-running destination management company. For more than 30 years, we've produced conferences, corporate events, and meetings that earn their place on the calendar, and a return on the investment behind them.
Most event partners hand you a proposal. We hand you a teammate. We take the time to learn your culture, your goals, and what success actually looks like for the people in the room, then we plan around it.
Every event answers to an objective: educate, sell, celebrate, connect, or create positive change. We design backward from that goal, so the budget works as hard as you do.
You get the senior attention of a boutique agency with the supplier network and buying power to run a program anywhere in the country. Sustainability and inclusivity are built in, not bolted on.
Tight timeline? Last-minute change? Event production is a 24/7 business, and our certified planners (CMP, DMCP, VEMM, and more) know roll with it.
From a 12-person executive retreat to a multi-day conference for thousands, our planning and management teams cover the whole event.
Meetings, conferences, and conventions, from strategy and budgeting to on-site execution.
Strategic, creative planning for award ceremonies, customer and employee hospitality events, and one-of-a-kind productions.
Ribbon cuttings, open houses, and milestone moments that bring stakeholders together.
Purposeful gatherings, symposiums, and fundraisers for foundations, grantees, and nonprofits.
Engaging online and hybrid experiences with the production value of a live show.
Full exhibitor support and trade show management, whether you are exhibiting up or running the show.
Local expertise, venues, transportation, and experiences for groups meeting in Detroit and Michigan.
Planning a corporate anniversary? That's a specialty of our sister company, The Anniversary Company.
Visit The Anniversary CompanyAcross every service, we handle event design, project management and budgeting, venue and supplier sourcing, AV and production, registration and event tech, food and beverage, transportation, décor, and on-site staffing.
Our “D” stands for Detroit. It’s our home, and it’s our edge. As Detroit’s longest-running destination management company (since 1992) and an ADMEI-certified DMC, we know the city the way only a local can: the iconic venues and the under-the-radar ones, the restaurants worth the reservation, the suppliers who pick up the phone.
If you’re bringing a meeting, incentive trip, or corporate event to Detroit, we’re your partner on the ground. If you’re planning from Detroit to anywhere else, that same network and rigor travels with you.
We've planned events for corporations, associations, nonprofits, and foundations. Our longest-running client relationship spans more than 24 years.
Thanks for being such a great partner on this extravaganza. It looked impossible at points, and merely daunting otherwise. I’m always in awe of your ability to see through the fog of details to be addressed to create a first-class event.
We could not have pulled off this virtual event without your team! They not only thought of all the details we may have missed but they also seamlessly rolled with the last-minute changes that COVID threw our way.
We really got great feedback on the Dallas event and major kudos for the ability to make the last-minute adjustments due to weather. All of this is a direct reflection of you and your team’s expertise.
Special D Events is a national meeting and event planning company. We plan and manage corporate events, conferences, meetings, trade shows, incentive travel, and special events, and we serve as a Detroit-area destination management company (DMC) for groups meeting in Southeast Michigan.
Everywhere. We’re headquartered in Detroit but have produced events in all 50 states and internationally for more than 30 years.
We partner with corporations, associations, nonprofits, foundations, and academic institutions, from Fortune 500 brands to community foundations.
A DMC is a local expert that handles venues, transportation, activities, and logistics for events in a specific region. As Detroit’s longest-running DMC, Special D Events is the on-the-ground partner for organizations hosting meetings and events in Detroit and Southeast Michigan.
The earlier the better. Engaging a planner during strategy and budgeting (not just execution) is where we save clients the most time and money, and where the best creative ideas take shape.
Yes. We produce virtual and hybrid events with the same strategy and production value as our in-person work.
Tell us what you're trying to accomplish, and we'll show you what it looks like done right.
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