Corporate seminar organizer
At H.stories, we are a corporate seminar organizer for the LVMH group and for the LIVE association alike. Our agency, based in Paris, takes charge of the organization from concept to the big day. In more than 11 years, we have produced over 350 events.
Our formats are presented on our corporate seminar organization page, and the step-by-step method in our guide to organizing a corporate seminar in France.
What a seminar organizer does
A corporate seminar brings together a venue, catering, technical production, a program, speakers and sometimes an evening event. Our role is to coordinate the suppliers, keep you informed at every stage and ensure rigorous follow-up right up to the big day. Whether you want to motivate your teams, reward your employees or launch a new project, the organization starts from your objectives.
Choosing the venue
A private mansion, a château or a Parisian hotel: choosing the setting depends on your objectives and the number of participants. For LVMH Blueprint, in 2022, we took over three floors of the Hôtel le Marois, a Parisian private mansion: a plenary space for talks, an exhibition space for the group's brands and a lounge area, for a seamless and immersive experience. Our go-to addresses are gathered in our selection of 15 venues in Paris, from the Pavillon Dauphine to the Palais Brongniart.
The program and activities
Building a program means designing a journey and thinking about the needs of each moment: talks, focus, discussion, downtime. The LVMH CSR seminar, the same year, brought together teams from several Maisons and had to create a unifying, inspiring moment: it combined talks, collaborative workshops and moments of exchange. Every detail, from the choice of venue to the lighting design, reflected the group's environmental commitment. Our team building activities, from escape games to creative workshops and immersive virtual reality games, are designed to strengthen team cohesion.
Technical production and remote participants
At Blueprint, multi-camera filming, a dedicated control room and livestreaming allowed guests to experience the event on site as well as remotely. For the CSR seminar, a live broadcast connected several of the group's sites at the same time.
The evening
For the LIVE association's seminars, the day continues with a reception. We also produce corporate evenings, themed parties and, to strengthen team cohesion, Christmas and end-of-year parties.
How to choose your seminar organizer
Organizing a seminar takes far more than booking a venue or planning a team lunch. A contractor coordinates suppliers and handles the technical side and logistics; an agency also designs the intention, the message, the scenography and the experience itself. The right choice therefore does not rest on an attractive portfolio alone: it depends on the organizer's ability to understand your identity and the message you want to convey, and to handle substance as well as form, down to the unexpected. The aim is not to keep doing more, but to offer an experience that is coherent, elegant, memorable and aligned with your company's culture.
How working with our agency goes
The first meeting is held with Hicham Abboub, the founder of the agency. We seek to understand your needs and define the outline of the project together: objectives, budget, timeline, atmosphere, technical constraints. We then propose a budget approach before any creative work, followed by a detailed proposal with creative ideas and suitable technical solutions.
Once the proposal is approved, our team takes charge of the entire organization. As a boutique agency that puts quality and creativity first, we cannot respond to creative tenders free of charge.
The seminars we have organized
For LVMH, we also produced the first Meta Days seminar in 2023, a think tank on NFTs and new digital uses in luxury, and in 2022 a legal department workshop on the metaverse, for which we handled the scenography, the layout of work and discussion areas, audiovisual production, logistics, catering and technical management. The legal department's feedback: "you know how to offer simple and effective things with an important sense of detail". LVMH also praises our support "for 5 months with unfailing reliability" on a major seminar in Paris, despite numerous changes.
For the LIVE association, we produce the seminars where participants meet their partner companies, in Marseille, Valence, Reims, Roubaix and Le Havre: welcome, meeting spaces and reception.
“Thank you so much Hicham for helping us organize this first think tank seminar on the exciting topic of NFTs.”
Contact us
Looking for an organizer for your next corporate seminar? Tell us about the date you have in mind, the number of guests and your objectives: we will be delighted to discuss it with you.
Request for a quoteThe most asked questions
Residential, creative, strategic, festive or hybrid seminars, from a two-day immersive seminar in a château to a hybrid convention livestreamed from several cities. We adapt the format to the size of your teams and to your objectives.
In luxury and fashion, it is recommended to start the design phase six months before the target date, and up to twelve months for complex or international formats: it is best to start as early as possible, to secure the venue and the suppliers. A short lead time is not an obstacle, though: we have already had five days, or even two, to organize events for 500 people, and the LIVE association praises our ability to mobilize "a complete team in six different cities in 48 hours".
It all depends on the length of the seminar, the venue, the number of participants, the catering and the technical production required. We define it with you from the very first conversation, before any creative proposal.
Yes. For LVMH, we favored local suppliers, reusable materials and low-energy technical solutions, and the group saw it as "a CSR seminar in our image, combining excellence, sobriety and commitment".
