The United States Conference of Mayors' 83rd annual meeting opened with a spectacular gala at San Francisco City Hall, where the lighting team created a design for each performance.

Within the rotunda, the round stage illumination changed from traditional, conventional washes of light to LED moving heads for enhanced color and energy.

Accent illumination highlighted existing event artwork, including pin-spot illumination of tables and decor.

The unique sculptural rotunda dome was bathed in three layers of color gels.

Seattle-based Blue Danube Productions brings the Gala home for its work on the Alaska Airlines rebrand launch in this recap of Gala Awards for technical production.

Enlisted to create a grand yet intimate announcement of the first rebrand in 25 years of Alaska Airlines, the event team rose to the challenge of transforming a maintenance hangar, revealing a 737 airplane and helping the airline earn the trust and buy-in from employees and press around the world.

A clever drill team of flight crew.

The main event in Seattle hosted 2,000 employees and more than a dozen members of the press; over the course of the following week, four subsidiary and supporting events were also produced in four different states.

The drill team struts its stuff.

The big brand reveal. The event team's workload totaled 1,470 hours of labor and effort in one week alone.

Montreal-based Senik Events lands the Gala trophy for Best Achievement in Logistics.

For Genetech's year-end party, the event team merged two entirely different visions into one, creating the "Crime of the Century" gala.

Happy company staffers hit the dance floor.

The interactive game for some 1,000 guests offered prizes for attendees, featured a private show from Supertramp's Roger Hodgson, and presented a hip "murder party" entertainment geared toward millennials.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Party Reflections brings home Gala gold in Best Achievement in Event Rental Support for its work on the 2016 Wyndham Championship. Here, the bleachers at the tee box.

The Wyndham Championship is a longstanding PGA Tour and North Carolina tradition dating back to the first tournament, held at the Sedgefield Country Club in 1938. For the 2016 event, the Party Reflections team oversaw the infrastructure supporting the event.

Feeling a bit thirsty? Party Reflections creates "Margaritaville."

Not an SOS but the message "We Earned This!" is spelled out on the beach.

The scope of work for Party Reflections encompassed more than 58,000 square feet of tenting, more than 54,600 square feet of carpeted floor, more than 720 tables, more than 2,115 chairs and 400-plus pieces of linen installed over a four-week span of time.