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Event Services

Once you've booked your meeting or convention in San Jose, our Convention Services team offers personalized services, including:
  • Civic official liaison – ribbon cuttings, proclamations, welcome letters, and opening/closing general sessions or ceremonies

  • Convention housing – inventory control for hotel room blocks, online booking, personalized e-mail address for reservations, weekly reports, acknowledgments confirmed via email, fax or mail, on-site housing assistance, VIP and exhibitor room blocks, and personalized hotel maps

  • Meeting planner site visits – accommodation arrangements, agenda for site visits, airport pick-up, and staff escort for site locations

  • Merchant awareness program – welcome banners, street pole banners, welcome signs in merchant windows, and distribution of general information to downtown merchants and businesses

  • Registration personnel – professional, qualified and reliable on-site registration personnel, bonded cashiers, data entry/typists, and experienced convention staffing

  • Speaker’s Bureau – recommend local and Bay Area leaders from various disciplines, including business, education, cultural arts, non-profit and government to serve as potential keynote speakers or panelists.

  • Unlimited Possibilities - in addition to these services, our Convention Services team is ready to take on any additional or special request that you may need—the possibilities are endless!
Please Meet Your Event Team Members:
Gabriel Nemeth Gabriel Nemeth
Senior Event Services Manager
(408) 792-4141 Email: gnemeth@sanjose.org
Nancy Kilgore Nancy E. Kilgore, CMP
Senior Event Services Manager
(408) 792-4534 Email: nkilgore@sanjose.org

Nancy E. Kilgore ensures that all event requirements for clients are met; function room set ups, audio/visual and production requirements, food and beverage service, staffing and much more. Nancy has been involved in the event planning field for almost 20 years, serving with various corporations including Hyatt and Hilton. Nancy also served as the Director of Convention Services on the opening team of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Regina Urquidez
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Regina Urquidez
Senior Event Services Manager
(408) 792-4538 Email: rurquidez@sanjose.org

Regina Urquidez has been working in the Hospitality industry since 1990. She also has extensive Nestle Corporation experience. Now with the TSJ family for over 7 months, she really enjoys interaction with our clients. She works under the assumptions that there is always a solution to every challenge. Teamwork is key to any success, and the reward is a happy client, a returning client.