Georgia Tech named 2014’s Best College or University to Hold a Meeting or Event

Not only is Georgia Tech one of the country’s leading research and innovation educational centers, but it is now the best college or university to host an event, according to Unique Venues.

Georgia Tech was named 2014’s Best College or University to Hold a Meeting or Event by Unique Venues, a marketing service that pairs one-of-a-kind venues with meeting planners looking for spaces out of the ordinary. Conference Services at Georgia Tech provides that unique opportunity for planners seeking residential accommodations and event space for summer residential conferences and camps. Conferences and camps include educational seminars, leadership groups, youth educational and sports, religious leadership, and fraternal organizations.

With seven full-time professional staff, and 30-40 student staff, planners know that they can concentrate on creating their program and marketing their event, and the Georgia Tech Conference Services staff will work on the logistics. This includes coordinating living arrangements, meals, transportation and meeting space, as well as finding things to do in Atlanta. Partnerships with fellow on-campus vendors facilitiate these communications, and the staff works year round to put on summer camps and conferences. With the addition of registration services in the past year, the Conference Services team can really do it all for the event planner. 

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Sravanthi Meka
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Housing & Conference Services
Georgia Tech

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Two “Best Of” Honors for Georgia Tech Conference Services

Conference Services at Georgia Tech earned two “Best Of” honors as Best Center Venue and Best Venue for Transportation Access from Unique Venues this fall.

Conference Services at Georgia Tech was named Best City Center Venue and Best Venue for Transportation Access by Unique Venues, a marketing service that pairs one-of-a-kind venues with meeting planners looking for non-traditional spaces. Groups with non-profit status or an educational mission can live in the middle of a thriving city at affordable rates in late May to the end of July by working with Conference Services at Georgia Tech.

Best City Center Venue

Our campus is located in the heart of midtown Atlanta, and by having a summer conference or institute on our college campus, clients benefit from the central site at an affordable price point.

Best Venue for Transportation Access

In the heart of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia Tech has three major interstates within five miles of campus, and two MARTA train stations adjacent to Georgia Tech campus with easy access to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest airport. Hartsfield-Jackson reaches 225 destinations in 51 countries, serves 250,000 passengers a day, and sees nearly 2,500 arrivals and departures per day. 80% of the U.S. population is within a two-hour direct flight to Atlanta.

“Congratulations to Georgia Institute of Technology and the Housing & Conference Services team for these awards.  They are pushing the envelope, challenging peers in new, innovative ways and providing services and benefits that are new and haven’t been done before,” remarked Michele Nichols, Founder of Unique Venues. “There is strength in our number and power in our collective presence thanks to venues like Georgia Institute of Technology.”

About Conference Services at Georgia Tech

With seven full-time professional staff, and 30-40 student staff, planners know that they can concentrate on creating their program and marketing their event, and the Georgia Tech Conference Services staff will work on the logistics. This includes coordinating living arrangements, meals, transportation and meeting space, as well as finding things to do in Atlanta. Partnerships with fellow on-campus vendors facilitate these communications, and the staff works year round to put on summer camps and conferences. With the addition of registration services in 2013, the Conference Services team can really do it all for the event planner. Georgia Tech offers an ideal location for event planners who want to be in an easily accessible big city, but with affordable pricing. 

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Sravanthi Meka
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Georgia Tech

Another “Best Of” for Georgia Tech Conference Services!

Conference Services at Georgia Tech receives honor for “Best Large-Market Venue”.

Conference Services at Georgia Tech received another “Best Of” honor. This time it was “Best Large-Market Venue”.

Best Large-Market Venue – 

Venues that are located within a major metro area of more than 3 million and take advantage of surrounding urban offerings

The award was presented by Unique Venues, a marketing firm that matches distinctive venues with meeting planners seeking non-traditional spaces for their meetings and events.

The 2019 Unique Venues BEST OF AWARDS pays homage to special event venues, business centers, campuses, museums and cultural centers in 26 different categories for going above and beyond to provide unparalleled service and professionalism.

Meeting planners and readers of Unique Venues magazine voted Georgia Tech Conference Services the winner for Best Large-Market Venue.

The award was officially received at the Unique Venues annual conference, October 2019.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

2022 Student Spotlight: Yash Meswani

The Office of Conference Services congratulates graduating student staff member, Yash Meswani.

Caps Off to Our Graduates

The Office of Conference Services would like to recognize the seniors on our staff, not only for their hard work, dedication and contribution to our efforts but also for their academic accomplishment. You have studied throughout the night; worked on countless papers and projects; sweated over exams; laughed, cried and everything in between. To this we say congratulations and a hearty thank you! You made it! You are a Georgia Institute of Technology graduate!

We celebrate you and appreciate everything you have contributed to make our office a success. We hope your time working with us has been as beneficial to you as it has been to us. We wish you health, happiness, blessings and every good thing.

 

Graduating Student Staff Member

Yash Meswani

Major: Master’s in Quantitative and Computational Finance

What I learned working with conference services: Respecting other people’s time and effort and acknowledging it will take you a long way in your professional career. The foundation of the GT Conference services is built around diversity, kindness and hospitality. Working here will definitely instill these qualities in you as a person, which will take you a long way in life.

Other Involvement at Georgia Tech: GT Fencing, Graduate Research Assistant

Favorite Georgia Tech Memory: Working for Georgia Tech Conference service, made a lot of friends, learned a lot about different cultures across the globe, improved my time management skills with the busy (but always fun) schedule of GT Conference services.

Advice to Incoming First-Year Students: Go ahead and email/contact whichever department you feel is the right place to work for you on campus. Make sure you work on-campus for at least one semester. You will learn skills that carve the path for a successful professional life. This prestigious institute has a lot to offer, not only academically but also socially and culturally.

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Jennifer Watson
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Department of Housing and Residence Life
Georgia Institute of Technology

2022 Student Spotlight: Matt Oliver

The Office of Conference Services congratulates graduating student staff member, Matt Oliver.

Caps Off to Our Graduates

The Office of Conference Services would like to recognize the seniors on our staff, not only for their hard work, dedication and contribution to our efforts but also for their academic accomplishment. You have studied throughout the night; worked on countless papers and projects; sweated over exams; laughed, cried and everything in between. To this we say congratulations and a hearty thank you! You made it! You are a Georgia Institute of Technology graduate!

We celebrate you and appreciate everything you have contributed to make our office a success. We hope your time working with us has been as beneficial to you as it has been to us. We wish you health, happiness, blessings and every good thing.

 

Graduating Student Staff Member

Matt Oliver

Major: Computer Science (Information Internetworks & Devices)

What I learned working with conference services: By working hard, paying attention to detail and caring about your customers you can really change their whole summer experience with one interaction, so make them count and be friendly.

Other Involvement at Georgia Tech: Intramural sports, GT Spikeball team (Ramblin’ Roundnet), GT 1000 TL, frisbee and volleyball pickup groups, volunteering with Circle K club, Explore LLC, as well as working with another Housing and Residence Life division (Operations and Strategic Alliances).

Favorite Georgia Tech Memory: I really liked waking up for the sunset and would often run to piedmont park to watch it at the lake in the mornings. On daylight savings I thought that the sunrise would be too early to go to so on the last day I asked a bunch of my friends that I met over the years (First Year dorm mates, Conference Services staff, intramurals, sports clubs, classes and a few other people) to come and watch the sunrise with me before classes began. A lot of my friends came, and it was so nice to share that experience with friends from all areas of my college experience. It showed me how people at tech love the community if you just make sure to ask them and include them in things. I actually got the time change wrong, fall back meant that we had more time for the sunrise the next day, but everyone still came out.

Advice to Incoming First-Year Students: There is so much more to learn in college than your coursework. The classes are important but on campus employment, research positions, club involvement and many other things can help you learn so much more than you intended to at your time at Tech.

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Jennifer Watson
Program Manager, Conference Services
Department of Housing and Residence Life
Georgia Institute of Technology