Each year, Morningstar brings top investors, industry leaders, and financial professionals to Navy Pier in Chicago for its Investment Conference — a multi-day program of keynotes, breakout sessions, and exhibitor experiences, plus all the networking that happens in between.
Morningstar enlists LSAV POWERHOUSE to produce all of it. The brief holds steady from year to year: a mainstage worthy of the thought leadership standing on it, audio that holds up in every room Navy Pier has to offer, and a trade floor that moves hundreds of attendees without ever feeling like it is managing them.
The Process
We approach the conference the way we approach every returning program — one multi-disciplinary team covering production, scenic design, audio, and event logistics, with everything we learned last year already built in.
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Mainstage Design: Our scenic team builds the focal point of the conference: a stage engineered so that keynotes land as hard visually as they do substantively.
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Audio Precision: Navy Pier is not one venue but several, each with its own acoustics. We tune a system room by room, so an afternoon breakout reads as clearly as the opening keynote.
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Trade Floor Layout: With hundreds of attendees moving through the exhibitor space, we lay out a floor that reads itself — intuitive traffic flow, booths that invite a stop, and room for conversation where it naturally wants to happen.
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Technical Execution: Show calling and AV management run the full program. Transitions between sessions stay clean, cues land, and live content plays without the audience ever having to think about it.
What We Did
Full-Scale Event Production/Scenic and Mainstage Design/AV System Design and Management/Event Logistics/Trade Floor Layout and Flow Optimization/Showcalling and Technical Execution/Breakout Session Support/Keynote Presentation Support/Networking Facilitation/Strategic Planning and Coordination
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The Results
Every year, the conference delivers a premium experience for attendees, speakers, and exhibitors alike. The mainstage gives thought leadership a platform equal to it. Clear audio carries every keynote and breakout. The trade floor lets attendees connect without friction — which is where a great deal of the conference’s value gets created in the first place.
And the partnership compounds. Each time we produce the conference, we start from a deeper read on the room, the run of show, and what Morningstar’s audience expects. The production gets sharper for it. That is what happens when a client stops re-briefing vendors every year and starts building with one team.
