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If you are seeing varied colors of session titles, here is your guide:
Cranberry = Catersource education sessions
Bright pink = TSE education sessions
Dark blue = those sessions or events that can be attended by anyone with a Catersource or TSE pass, or requires a separate ticket.
Find your best experience by first choosing the pass type you have purchased. This will weed out all other extraneous sessions.

Sessions do fill up and seating is first come, first served. Note: Individual presentations may also be on this website shortly before the published show dates. They may or may not be the final presentation.

Earn CMP credits!

ALL education sessions at this year's conference are approved by The Events Industry Council to count toward your CMP certification. Keep your professional status up-to-date while enjoying and learning from this incredible lineup of speakers.

Jen SulakWedding Photographer & ArtistWeirdo Weddings Photography

Jen Sulak is an experimental artist, wedding photographer and speaker who loves the connection that still moments bring in our modern times. Over 17 years ago she started the journey of becoming a photographer which has brought her to 2020, the year that started her hyper-niche brand of Weirdo Weddings Photography. This niche speaks to many couples out there looking for acceptance, inclusion and visibility in a saturated wedding industry world. Jen is one of many amazing quirky voices in the industry stepping out to share, collaborate, connect and CREATE with others. Her journey as a speaker 'Pink Hair Jen' began in 2022 as she has stepped out boldly to use her voice and story to help others. A few professional highlights of her career: Cameos on "Fandemonium" by Adam Richman, TLC's Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, Non-Binary fashion week on Offbeat Wed, The cover of Quirky Weddings Magazine, A full feature episode on Sony's "Facing Creativity" with Brooke Shaden and her Vow Renewal LIVE on Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Radio Show in DFW. She also began her own podcast called "Tattoos and Toddlers" a podcast that looks at having a business with young children, caretaking and fun tattoo stories. Her guests are a range of hard-working individuals sharing their REAL life stories and inspirations for us all. This began inspired by her fellow wedding pros struggling to address this in their lives and how it all intertwined in the end.