Prepare. Climb. Reach Summit. Repeat.

For the team of Jupiter Ambrosia Productions, summits are tackled and conquered year after year. From the Governor’s Global Climate Summit and Border Governor’s Conferences a decade ago to last year’s Climate Summit in Paris and Davos and The Special Olympics GenUin Summit in Los Angeles, the team has guided great leaders to decisions of impact through their careful curating and controlling the production message.

“These events are designed to inform and inspire,” says Hope Cloteaux, co-producer with Jupiter’s founder, Carl Bendix. “That’s what I find so rewarding about them. Attendees sign up to learn and be...

Event Designer of the Year

Finalists
Niki Delacueva, R. Jack Balthazar, Inc. Damon Drescher, Angel City Designs Thomas Ford, Tomford Design Tim Koch, Poko Event Productions Jay Newington, scene-one Selena Souders, Big Red Sun Edgar Zamora, Revelry Event Designers

Winner
Edgar Zamora, Revelry Event Designers

For almost three decades, Carl Bendix, as CEO of Carl Bendix Productions, has presided over an extraordinary series of projects spanning the worlds of entertainment, sports, education, Fortune 500 companies, government and the arts. These events have ranged from epic and theatrical to elegant and understated. Notable productions have included the Academy Awards Governors’ Ball, parties f...

Event Solutions magazine

January, 2011

“Seven years ago, it was just Maria, me and a small staff sitting in a room wondering what direction this all could take,” said Carl Bendix, president of JupiterPx/Ambrosia. The “Maria” was Maria Shriver, and the event in question was The Women’s Conference, which Bendix has produced since Shriver became first lady of California.

The direction it would take was straight to the top with an extended program, and a stellar lineup of speakers from First Lady Michelle Obama to an encore appearance by Oprah.

Shriver inherited a one-day event, which was originally called the California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Wom...

With change coming to the California governor’s office after next week’s election, this year’s Women’s Conference was the last in its current incarnation for hosts Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was also the conference’s largest showing, with more than 140 top speakers and participants, including Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, Oprah Winfrey, and many more, who drew a sold-out crowd to the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. In response to the high demand—tickets sold out in one hour, beating last year’s record of two—organizers grew the event to three full days, with an additional health- and wellness-focused day on Monday, ...

It might be said that 2009 is a year that created a particular need for inspiration and community support—especially in a state like California, where budget shortfalls and the unemployment rate have become notorious. Either in spite of or because of that climate, California’s first lady, Maria Shriver, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Women’s Conference once again drew masses of women from all over the state to join a packed roster of about 70 high-level speakers and participants at the Long Beach Convention Center

This year, the program ballooned from a single day to two full days—to accommodate the increasing number of would-be attendees. (Each year, full-...

Governor Schwarzenegger’s Remarks at the Opening Ceremony Webcast for the XXVI Border Governors Conference

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, thank you very much, thank you. It’s great to be here and actually be back at Universal Studios. And what is so exciting about it is not just that we have this great conference here, but that I actually started my movie career right here at Universal Studios. It was Universal Studios. (Applause) That’s right. It was Universal Studios that started the Conan the Barbarian movie and Conan the Destroyer and all the comedies like Twins and Kindergarten Cop.

And then they built this great ride, T2-3D, which is the most successful ride around here...