Nominees Category: 2019

Established in the summer of 2008, INVNT is the global brand storytelling agency™. They launched their APAC office, led by Australian native Laura Roberts, who was a member of INVNT’s founding team, in October 2017 to address a surge of demand across the region for live brand experiences.

In 2018 the agency grew from one to five employees – which saw the team move to larger premises at the beginning of 2019, secured 10 new clients, achieved an RFP success rate of over 95%, and saw a 100% client retention rating. The INVNT team successfully delivered events including Xerocon Brisbane, TEDxSydney and the Atlantis Sanya launch, and they grew the Xero account from local to global, with their US counterparts delivering the event in Atlanta.

The agency’s challenger approach, competitive fee structure and killer talent was so well received in 2018, INVNT launched a second APAC office in Singapore at the end of last year.

Belle Laide Events is a multi-award-winning event management company based in Sydney that services clients around Australia and internationally. Over the course of 13 years, Belle Laide Events has become known for its down-to-earth personality and for seamlessly delivering original, innovative, authentic events that resonate with the target audience and get outstanding results for clients.

A trusted event partner for many global blue-chip clients and local boutique brands, Belle Laide Events has a reputation for creating meaningful and truly memorable experiences that cut through the noise in a media-saturated world.

Despite constant development and an ever-expanding client roster, Belle Laide Events remains a small, agile team of just ten permanent full-time staff and three part-time staff, producing and managing numerous high-quality events across Australia and internationally.

Belle Laide Events has a passion for promoting Australia’s growing event industry and its work continues to enhance Australia’s reputation for event excellence, globally.

Rosie Campo is the Key Account Director / GM of Belle Laide Events (BLE), Australia.
Over the four years Rosie has worked at BLE, her outstanding professional abilities and performance have seen her quickly rise from Event Manager to Senior Event Manager to now running, managing and growing BLE’s day-to-day business. This year, Rosie’s outstanding event success for clients (nationally and internationally) and her contribution to her company has seen BLE become the most highly-awarded event management company in Australia, and has grown the business by over 20%. Her strong client relationships and ability to challenge the status quo has seen her work smash its KPIs and has led to an incredible 95% repeat business rate. Her work has also elevated and enhanced the status and reputation of Australia as a tourism destination and as a centre for business events excellence, globally. Her skilful management, innovative approach, relentless attention to detail and ability to solve any challenge thrown at her, has won her a stellar reputation with clients, her team and BLE’s suppliers alike.

Matt has proved himself time and time again as an intuitive communicator, marketer and creative strategist. His insights into the multi-generational marketing required for his clients and company have been incredible and in fact generally of a calibre and understanding of someone twice his age with much more experience. Matt stands out as a great multi lingual communicator, but his management of and understanding of how the media works in the 21st Century is truly remarkable. Through 2018, his engineering and execution of The STEM Program presented by Tesla, Techbob Academy and Hong Kong University at the AIA Carnival has been ground-breaking and so well received from all recipients. 2018 was a defining one for Agenda Consulting and its key clients and much of the success can be attributed to Matt’s emergence as an individual, a team player, a leader and an invaluable team player.