CEC delivers end-to-end expertise, with concepts founded in strategy. Consulting, creating event blueprints, producing live experiences, and promoting them to global audiences.

Consult

We advise governments, cities, and organisations. Our repository of networks, frameworks, data, and creative methodologies allows us to advise with insight and confidence.

  • Clarity of purpose, vision, objectives, and legacy goals
  • Stakeholder consultation and workshop facilitation
  • Vision and legacy alignment
  • Strategic framework definition
  • Assessment of the existing event ecosystem and policy context

  • Audit and data analysis of client research 
  • Global and regional benchmarking
  • Market demand and audience analysis
  • Tourism and economic impact assessment
  • SWOT and PESTLE analysis for destination positioning

  • Financial modelling and ROI, cost-benefit analysis
  • Ticketing and attendance forecasting
  • Infrastructure and venue feasibility
  • Risk and sensitivity analysis
  • Stakeholder and inter-agency coordination

  • Major event ideation and conceptual development
  • Develop solution-based narratives that amplify positive recognition and engagement
  • Creative direction and experience design 
  • Tourism Drivers and Government platforms 
  • Legacy planning - social, cultural and place

  • Bid strategy and event acquisition recommendations
  • Partnership and rights-holder engagement
  • Funding, investment and risk modelling
  • Assess Public–Public-Private Partnership frameworks
  • Governance and delivery model design
  • Stakeholder and inter-agency coordination

Create

CEC leads the creative visioning and design of experience attractions, ceremony events, and televised sports events.

  • Creative leadership and stakeholder engagement
  • Multidisciplinary collaboration
  • Vision articulation
  • Global creative team curation and management

  • Creative Workshops
  • Concept Development
  • Thematic Narrative Design
  • Experience Design Concepts
  • Production Design Concepts

  • Original IP development 
  • Brand and format creation

  • Storytelling development 
  • Script development 
  • Show direction and choreography 
  • Narrative flow and timing 
  • Cross-platform creative 

  • Creative frameworks 
  • Audience journey mapping
  • Audience and market alignment 
  • Brand storytelling 
  • Visual identity direction

  • Global talent sourcing 
  • Casting and negotiation 
  • Artistic collaboration management 
  • Diversity and cultural representation

Produce

From Project Brief to Execution. We manage the entire production lifecycle, taking projects from concept ideation through to seamless turnkey execution. We navigate the complexities of multi-agency coordination, financial reporting, and media relations to ensure every project is delivered on time and on budget.

  • Scope definition and reporting 
  • Project parameters
  • Critical path management
  • Budget creation, control and reporting
  • Marketing and Communications strategy
  • Stakeholder liaison (Government, Sports Federations, Board)
  • Project / Event Management planning documentation
  • Permits & Licensing

  • Production scheduling
  • Technical design and supervision
  • Supplier procurement and management
  • On-site production leadership

  • Establish engagement and approval processes
  • Lead stakeholder engagement
  • Stakeholder communications and media relations
  • Multi-agency coordination

  • Operational planning
  • Site design 
  • Site and venue operations
  • Workforce and volunteer frameworks

  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Safety and compliance management
  • Sustainability frameworks
  • Emergency response planning

  • Procurement strategy
  • Vendor selection and contracting 
  • Budget and performance monitoring
  • Quality assurance

  • Show calling and direction
  • Rehearsal management
  • Real-time problem solving

  • We close the loop with insight
  • Operational evaluation
  • Reporting and debriefs
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Legacy and sustainability reporting

Promote

CEC delivers audience-led creative, commercial, and production excellence across every stage of the event journey and tour journey.

  • Audience-led experience design 
  • Audience targeting and key metrics
  • Locations and key parameters
  • Budget forecasting /revenue modelling

  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Funding and feasibility strategy
  • Capital and investor sourcing
  • Rights and partnership negotiations
  • Reputation and stakeholder management

  • Storytelling and fan connection strategy
  • Brand and Marcomms strategy
  • Ticketing strategy and price forecasting 
  • PR strategy and content creation

  • Production design and technical management 
  • Broadcast integration
  • Event Management
  • Site operations and delivery
  • Venue operations
  • Transport overlays

  • ROI and performance analytics 
  • Economic and social impact metrics 
  • Audience insights and reporting 
  • Sponsorship evaluation
  • Benchmarking and post-event review including recommendations and legacy programs

We hatch ideas, design experiences and change the game, collectively!

Let’s get the ball rolling.

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal peoples of Meanjin (Brisbane), the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we create. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

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