Verney Conference Management (“VCM”) was founded in 2002. Over the past 15 years, the company has grown to produce over 250 events from coast to coast.

Dustin Rivers, the company's co-Founder, was working in Toronto for what he calls a "conference production factory", and even though he was proud of the conferences he was creating, he also knew they were very over-priced. He was quickly able to identify an opportunity, and with an eye towards working with the public sector to produce the same type of high quality events, but at a drastically less cost per delegate.

Dustin (and then partner Sean Downey, who recently got into the family real estate business downeyteam.com) packed up their meager belongings and moved to Ottawa to start Verney Conference Management.

It wasn't until 2003 that things really began to take off, and Dustin began formulating a new Event Production Business Model - what he now calls Community-Based Developed events. In April of that year, VCM was joined by now Partner and Co-owner, Chris Lutz.

Over this time, as Dustin and Chris honed their negotiation skills and learned more about the financial intricacies of the event industry. VCM took a "let's try to do it ourselves before paying someone else" mentality and quickly became a one-stop shop for complete Event Production. Not only did the team at VCM manage event logistics along with its associated vendors, it procured an AV arsenal capable of servicing a 300+ person event with 5 concurrent sessions running at any given time. VCM also began supplying in-house Graphic Design services, but perhaps most impressively of all, they created what is now known as EventSystemPro - VCM's custom built event registration and event management system.

~ Built by event planners for event planners.~

~ As we continue to grow and change, finding efficiencies for ourselves and our clients remains our first priority. ~

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2720 Queensview Dr.
Ottawa, ON, Canada K2B 1A5