Event Planning & Coordination

Introduction

Our team has experience with event and conference planning, and can bring valuable expertise for our rural communities and partners. Our team is well-equipped to ensure the success of your events by offering support in logistics, planning, speaker management, and more.  We also are able to collaborate as a partner on events and provide a rural perspective to enhance the overall content and program. 

RDN has hosted many conferences and understands the amount of work that is required, and the intricacies and challenges associated with organizing events. Let us alleviate your stress and streamline the process as we partner together. 

Discover how RDN can support your next event. Contact us today to explore the opportunities and unlock the full potential of your gatherings. 

Logistics & Planning

We can provide additional capacity to handle the logistics & planning including venue coordination, food arrangements, transportation logistics, and ensuring an exceptional guest experience. Whether it’s coordinating with vendors, managing schedules, or overseeing on-site logistics, we seamlessly execute every detail.  

Speaker & Presenter Management

Streamline the process of confirming speakers, scheduling, speaker agreements, & ensuring they are well prepared for a seamless event. 

Steering Committee Management

Coordinating meetings for Steering Committee members, facilitating engagement, & recording meeting minutes.  

Virtual Event Platform Set Up & Management

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Contact us today to explore how we can support your next meeting or event.

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The Shelter Pulse Database Project enabled rural and remote shelters to work together in providing trauma-informed policies and procedures for violence against women shelters in Canada. The experts from the field that gathered to share their knowledge to the Shelter Pulse Database make this new tool invaluable. Under the leadership of the Rural Development Network, many partner shelters contributed to the outcome.


Cindy Easton – Mountain Rose Women’s Shelter Association (MRWSA)

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As a previous participant in the Enabling Housing Choice project with RDN, we are excited to be making progress on key recommendations outlined in RDN’s report – Attracting Diverse Housing Development in Mayerthorpe. This report has been critical to understanding our community’s diverse housing needs, and has equipped us with  community-informed insights on how to address these needs.


Karen St. Martin – Town of Mayerthorpe

Enabling Housing Choice, Housing

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Understanding the significance of having people with lived experience and Indigenous people being at the tables of all conversations – especially those with decision making authority. The value of community, and looking after ourselves so we can serve others. That there is a community of people who I can learn from and share with in my work to serve my community.


Training Participant

National Coordinated Access

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This training was so invigorating, refreshing and very much needed. The intimate setting, I feel, made a huge difference. We left the event with a deeper understanding and a strengthened network. We were reminded to focus on the capacity that we have, not necessarily all we would love to be able to do, and take it in steps. Thank you, thank you, thank you!


Coordinated Access Training Participant

National Coordinated Access

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Creating a sense of home is so much more than just a building and the Innovation Fund gave SHI and the YWCA creative space to think differently about our approach to design. Living in Banff National Park also strongly influenced our commitment to net zero targets. Belonging, security, connection, affordability, community pride-these are all factors that have influenced how we developed the Courtyard project.


Connie MacDonald- Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Banff

Housing

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We are forever grateful to work together on this insight for our project. If not for the support from RDN on this we would not be where we are today! Our dream was to attain transitional, affordable and market housing in our community. This turned into a goal and now a reality. This housing continuum of care will be able to meet people’s needs while recognizing what their housing realities mean in a rural perspective. RDN has walked along with us and been able to connect and answer many questions, concerns and thoughts during this time.


Rebecca Wells – Executive Director, Wellspring Family Resource Center

Housing

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We brainstormed and some said nature and multiculturalism because we are a multicultural building, with people from many different countries and ethnicities here. So we wanted something to represent that, and the mural will make us a landmark in the community as there i s alot of foot-traffic in the community.


St. Joachim Tenant on the Community Mural

Placemaking for Inclusion

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There were people there who don’t normally show up to different functions. Everybody was doing something somewhere and were happy to participate and help others


St. Joachim Tenant on the Mural-Painting Event

Placemaking for Inclusion

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The atmosphere was quite welcoming for everyone. One person said they had been here for 20 years and this was the best event they had seen. The busyness of the room encouraged cliques to break up and this increase mingling


St. Joachim Tenant on the Mural-Painting Event

Placemaking for Inclusion

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It really brought the community together. Overall it was a great success. We also really enjoyed the painting, it was a great opportunity for those who had never painted before.


Senior Tenant, La Société des Manoirs Saint-Joachim

Placemaking for Inclusion

Introduction

Our mission is to empower your organization with cutting-edge audio-visual solutions and hybrid live-streaming event services that help you communicate your message to a wider audience and make a lasting impact, all at an affordable price. Whether you’re hosting your annual general meeting, a community outreach program, or a multi-day conference, our AV services are tailored to your mission-driven objectives. 

Why Choose the Rural Development Network for your Audio-Visual Needs? 

1. Expand Your Reach

2. Cost-Effective Solutions

3. Customized Support

4. Dedicated Assistance

Get a Quote

Contact us today to explore how we can support your next meeting or event.

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The Shelter Pulse Database Project enabled rural and remote shelters to work together in providing trauma-informed policies and procedures for violence against women shelters in Canada. The experts from the field that gathered to share their knowledge to the Shelter Pulse Database make this new tool invaluable. Under the leadership of the Rural Development Network, many partner shelters contributed to the outcome.


Cindy Easton – Mountain Rose Women’s Shelter Association (MRWSA)

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As a previous participant in the Enabling Housing Choice project with RDN, we are excited to be making progress on key recommendations outlined in RDN’s report – Attracting Diverse Housing Development in Mayerthorpe. This report has been critical to understanding our community’s diverse housing needs, and has equipped us with  community-informed insights on how to address these needs.


Karen St. Martin – Town of Mayerthorpe

Enabling Housing Choice, Housing

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Understanding the significance of having people with lived experience and Indigenous people being at the tables of all conversations – especially those with decision making authority. The value of community, and looking after ourselves so we can serve others. That there is a community of people who I can learn from and share with in my work to serve my community.


Training Participant

National Coordinated Access

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This training was so invigorating, refreshing and very much needed. The intimate setting, I feel, made a huge difference. We left the event with a deeper understanding and a strengthened network. We were reminded to focus on the capacity that we have, not necessarily all we would love to be able to do, and take it in steps. Thank you, thank you, thank you!


Coordinated Access Training Participant

National Coordinated Access

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Creating a sense of home is so much more than just a building and the Innovation Fund gave SHI and the YWCA creative space to think differently about our approach to design. Living in Banff National Park also strongly influenced our commitment to net zero targets. Belonging, security, connection, affordability, community pride-these are all factors that have influenced how we developed the Courtyard project.


Connie MacDonald- Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Banff

Housing

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We are forever grateful to work together on this insight for our project. If not for the support from RDN on this we would not be where we are today! Our dream was to attain transitional, affordable and market housing in our community. This turned into a goal and now a reality. This housing continuum of care will be able to meet people’s needs while recognizing what their housing realities mean in a rural perspective. RDN has walked along with us and been able to connect and answer many questions, concerns and thoughts during this time.


Rebecca Wells – Executive Director, Wellspring Family Resource Center

Housing

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We brainstormed and some said nature and multiculturalism because we are a multicultural building, with people from many different countries and ethnicities here. So we wanted something to represent that, and the mural will make us a landmark in the community as there i s alot of foot-traffic in the community.


St. Joachim Tenant on the Community Mural

Placemaking for Inclusion

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There were people there who don’t normally show up to different functions. Everybody was doing something somewhere and were happy to participate and help others


St. Joachim Tenant on the Mural-Painting Event

Placemaking for Inclusion

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The atmosphere was quite welcoming for everyone. One person said they had been here for 20 years and this was the best event they had seen. The busyness of the room encouraged cliques to break up and this increase mingling


St. Joachim Tenant on the Mural-Painting Event

Placemaking for Inclusion

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It really brought the community together. Overall it was a great success. We also really enjoyed the painting, it was a great opportunity for those who had never painted before.


Senior Tenant, La Société des Manoirs Saint-Joachim

Placemaking for Inclusion

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