CivicBrand is an agency with over a decade of experience in research, branding, consulting, design, and marketing. We’re a team of strategists, creatives and storytellers with a passion for helping communities tell their story.  We work directly with cities, economic development, and DMOs including convention & visitors bureaus (CVBs), chambers of commerce and business associations to develop and implement branding, engagement and destination marketing strategies. We focus on public engagement at the core of place branding and implementing strategies that cut across residents, visitors and business.

Epsilon is a digital media company that leverages data to drive destination demand. Our digital media solutions allow destination marketers to utilize real-time, person level data to have proactive conversations with the right travelers. We provide DMOs with the ability to use transactional spending data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to build and manage campaigns that speak directly to real people like midweek travelers, past visitors to your destination, bourbon purchasers, golfers, etc. Our measurement solution, Net Economic Impact, measures the direct influence your campaign had on true visitation and visitor spend, yielding an unmodeled measure of economic impact. This reporting will help you prove the value of tourism marketing to your stakeholders by demonstrating how much money visitors spend at hotels, restaurants, retail shops, and more.

Mr. Hunden and his Chicago-based firm offer extensive experience in the economics of placemaking, primarily via transformative real estate projects. He has provided economic development, market and financial feasibility, impact, developer selection and planning expertise for more than 800 projects and studies over the past 25+ years, totaling more than $6 billion in developed real estate. The firm completes approximately 60 assignments per year with its 12-person professional staff. Hunden’s background in economic, real estate and tourism development combine to make him a unique resource for communities looking to develop their destinations and projects in a viable, transformative and sustainable way. Some compelling projects include the Chicago Riverwalk and Navy Pier, Distrito T-Mobile in San Juan, a mega mixed-use destination in the Middle East (in pre-development), and Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, ON.

Miles Partnership is a strategic marketing consultancy focused exclusively on travel and tourism. Our mission is to enrich lives through travel by positively impacting communities and travelers with audience-focused, results-driven solutions. Our team is skilled in every aspect of travel and tourism, from marketing and communications to destination management and sustainability.

Today we work with more than 150 destinations, hospitality businesses and other travel industry clients worldwide to develop marketing and management strategies that amplify local experiences, boost visitation, improve community relations and increase overall economic impact.

Propulso empowers decision-makers with rapid, ethical location intelligence. For over seven years, we’ve developed pioneering technology solutions that transform raw data into actionable insights.

Our GeoIndicator product delivers detailed market analysis and visitor movement insights in minutes—at a fraction of traditional costs. Meanwhile, our GeoMarketing solution optimizes ad campaigns and audience targeting, enabling businesses to achieve measurable, real-world engagement and conversion.

Organizations and companies worldwide trust our platform for reliable, ethically managed business intelligence. With Propulso, they gain the precision and insight needed to make informed decisions and drive impactful actions.

As leading advisors in economic development, tourism and real estate for more than a decade, Resonance combines business strategy and marketing creativity to help shape the future of countries, cities and regions around the world.

Our team has advised destinations, communities and governments in 20 states and more than 70 countries. We provide leading public and private sector organizations with consumer research, strategic planning, marketing strategy, place branding and economic development strategy to help places realize their full potential.