At H.stories, an event agency present in Lyon as well as in Paris, we produce every format: fashion shows and presentations, product launches, brand activations, corporate seminars and conventions, gala evenings, inaugurations, live capture and live shows. Eleven years of production and more than 350 events, including seven years with LVMH.
What our agency brings to a Lyon-based company is not an address book: an artistic direction that starts from your brand, a technical direction that costs the project at the same time as the creative work. We work from our Lyon address, with a vetted network of regional suppliers and complete Rhône-Alpes logistics.
From the choice of venue to the last hour of dismantling, production stays in the hands of the same team.
Organizing an event in Lyon requires an in-depth understanding of the local infrastructure, as well as access to quality service providers. At H.stories, we work with the city's most emblematic venues, such as renowned hotels, modern convention centers, or unusual places such as Lyon's rooftops offering a breathtaking view of the Basilica of Fourvière. Our team ensures that every detail of your event is perfectly orchestrated, from design to execution. We support you throughout the process, offering creative solutions adapted to your needs, whether for a corporate event, a seminar, or an inauguration.
With the rise of hybrid events, H.stories offers you connected solutions to maximize the impact of your events. Thanks to innovative technologies, we manage the live broadcast and digital interactions, allowing your participants, whether on site or remotely, to live an immersive and engaging experience. Whether you are organizing an international seminar or a conference in Lyon, our expertise in hybrid events guarantees smooth management, while maintaining an optimal level of interactivity for your guests. In fact, this is what we have been doing for the association for the last 3 years. LIVE of the First Lady of France Ms. Brigitte Macron with interactive duplexes in 6 cities simultaneously.
Logistics and technology are at the heart of every successful event. H.stories takes care of all technical aspects, whether it is audiovisual installation, lighting or scenography. We work with the best providers, to ensure that every detail is taken care of in a professional manner. Our experts coordinate every step, from assembly to management in real time on the big day, so you can focus on your guests without worrying about technical aspects. Our knowledge of Lyon's infrastructures, decoration and event logistics providers allows us to offer you a turnkey service, without a hitch.
In Lyon, H.stories makes it a point of honor to offer creative and tailor-made concepts. Each event we organize is a unique creation, in perfect harmony with your expectations and goals. We create innovative scenographies and interactive activities to captivate your guests, whether it's a theme party in an unusual location or a gala dinner in a prestigious room. Our team of event design experts ensures that every detail, from the decor to the overall atmosphere, reflects the image and values of your business, while providing a memorable experience for your attendees.
The answer depends on the format. With our agency, allow six to twelve weeks between the brief and the day of a seminar or corporate evening in Lyon, more for formats that require scenographic construction or multi-camera capture. This lead time is not a comfort margin for the agency: it covers the venue search, on-site technical scouting, creative approval and production time. That said, a short timeline is no reason not to write to us: we have already set up projects in a few days, and our responsiveness is part of what our clients come to us for. Call us, even urgently: we will tell you frankly what remains feasible in the time available.
Scoping comes first: brief, number of guests, format, intention. Then creation, artistic proposal and costing, where the artistic direction of your corporate events is decided, before any venue visit. Next comes production: scouting in Lyon, venue booking, custom fabrication of the scenographic elements, briefing of the technical teams. And finally operations, setup, rehearsals, show control on the day, then dismantling.
A shorter timeline is still possible: we have already redesigned and delivered a Louis Vuitton activation in five days after a complete change of direction. It is not the norm, it is a capacity to react: it means compressing the creative phase and mobilizing more teams in parallel.
“Thanks to Hicham and his teams for their reliability on our often not very simple event needs.”
Ready to organize a unique event in Lyon? H.stories is your trusted partner to turn your ideas into reality. Whether you are organizing a seminar, a gala evening or a product launch, our team of experts is at your disposal to offer you a tailor-made service, adapted to your needs.
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Lyon covers every format. For a convention, the Centre de Congrès de Lyon, at the Cité Internationale, lines up three auditoriums of 300, 900 and 3,000 seats and 8,400 m² of single-level exhibition space. For a staged evening, La Sucrière, a former warehouse on the banks of the Saône at Confluence, welcomes up to 2,000 guests for a gala dinner and 3,000 for a cocktail reception, with riverbanks that can be hired exclusively. For a signature format, the Musée des Confluences opens eight event spaces on exclusive hire once it closes, and the InterContinental Lyon Hôtel-Dieu offers its 1,500 m² conference centre beneath the eighteenth-century dome. For very large capacities, the Halle Tony Garnier offers the largest column-free covered surface in Europe.
The objection is fair, and the answer has two parts. First, the budget. For a comparable scope, working with us often costs the same as a local provider: the difference is not the price, it is the artistic direction and a technical crew we run in-house rather than subcontract. Second, knowledge of the ground: we have known Lyon for many years, its venues, their real capacities and their build constraints, from the Cité Internationale to Confluence and the Presqu'île. We cover Lyon and the whole Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and our duplex set-up connects several cities live for hybrid formats.
Set design sits at the heart of our craft. Every event becomes a singular experience through bespoke sets and immersive staging. Our set designers work from your needs, your visual identity and the story you want to tell. We begin with a strategic study: based on your messages and your budget, we build the concepts that fit best. Nothing is copied and pasted, every project is an original creation.
Lyon Part-Dieu is less than two hours from Paris Gare de Lyon, with around thirty trains a day. As Part-Dieu is the second business district in France, that centrality makes it possible to gather teams coming from Paris, Marseille or Bordeaux with no extra overnight stay. Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport is connected to Part-Dieu in under thirty minutes by the Rhônexpress shuttle, and its TGV station is two minutes from the terminals.
Our technical production team is in-house, which changes everything when something goes wrong. Before every project we draw up a precise intervention schedule, and our experienced teams step in immediately if a problem arises. That ability to bring alternative solutions into play in real time is one of the reasons the LVMH, EssilorLuxottica and Louis Vuitton groups have trusted us for several years.
Every collaboration begins with a listening phase, and it is Hicham, the founder, who attends the first meeting. We then design a detailed proposal covering creative ideas and technical solutions. Once it is approved, our team takes charge of the entire event, from coordinating suppliers to running the show on the day, keeping you informed at every stage.
A premium event agency in Lyon does not sell a service, it builds a message. The difference shows on three points. First, the upstream work: we start from your strategy, not from a pre-existing format that we would adapt. Then the execution: a level of finish where the furniture, the lighting, the rhythm of the evening and the welcome tell the same story. Finally, reliability: seven years alongside LVMH and more than thirty events produced for Louis Vuitton. That is what makes the difference between a supplier and a partner, on a convention of several hundred people as on a dinner for twenty.
For a Lyon-based company, this means working with an agency used to the standards of major brands, while keeping the availability of a human-scale structure. Our clients cite reliability and high standards as what makes the difference on the day.
Yes. We do not act as a mere equipment rental company: technology is considered from the start. Sound, lighting, video, structure, show control, capture and livestreaming are integrated into the project from the first costing, which avoids unpleasant surprises, last-minute incompatibilities and energy lost in readjustments.
Before each production, the preparation phase includes a technical assessment of the venue: access and setup constraints, flows and safety, power distribution, load plans. This rigorous preparation allows a day to run smoothly, from setup to dismantling.
