Memorial University - Conference and Event Services

12/01/2025

If there is a wedding in your future get the tix! It will be amazing.

11/18/2025

This is one of our most sensational events! If there is a wedding in your future you’ll want to be here.

The wedding event of the year is back. 🤍✨

The Luxury Wedding Show – Evening Experience returns January 10, 2026, and we’re bringing all the magic with us!

This isn’t a trade show…
it’s a boutique, intimate, luxury evening designed for couples who want more.

Think:
🥂 Complimentary champagne
🌸 A dreamy floral bar
👗 Curated bridal boutique
📸 Captivating photo moments
✨ The most sought-after wedding vendors in Newfoundland

Your 2026 / 2027 wedding planning starts HERE.

Save the date & tag your bridal besties!👇

11/17/2025

- Day or night, the Bruneau Centre atrium is an extraordinary space for people to come together. With its glass walls, luscious vegetation, and gleaming marble floors, the Bruneau Centre is a beautiful canvas for elegant receptions, sophisticated networking, or casual gatherings. Capacity for 200 standing. Accessible.

And always when booking with Conference and Event Services, you're supporting entrepreneurship and innovation for students at Memorial University. Proud to say we're Rainbow Registered, so you can rely on a warm, inclusive welcome for everyone in the community.

Contact 'meet at mun dot ca' to book space at the Bruneau Centre, or anywhere on St. John's or Signal Hill Campus. https://www.mun.ca/meet/spaces/st-johns-campus/
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11/17/2025

is excited to share the next blog in the Insider Tips series!

CES Event Coordinator Emily Yetman has run loads of events, and has seen things unfold 'not exactly as planned'. This is no need to panic! Check this five strategies and you'll be on firm footing to pivot like a pro!

https://www.mun.ca/meet/news-articles/five-event-strategies-to-pivot-like-a-pro.php

11/03/2025

With the end of daylight savings time, afternoons are darker around rush hour, when traffic is at a peak.

Be extra careful while travelling around campus as we adjust to the time change.

Pedestrians should always use crosswalks, wear reflective clothing and ensure visibility.

11/03/2025

- Carved from the ancient rock of Signal Hill, the Johnson Geo Centre offers a one-of-a-kind setting for galas, celebrations, and creative gatherings.

Check the Reception Hall (350, standing) with the extraordinary great glass elevator entrance. It is literally - and we mean 'literally' - Under The Planets.

You don't get this anywhere else in the galaxy!

And always when booking with Conference and Event Services, you're supporting entrepreneurship and innovation for students at Memorial University. Proud to say we're Rainbow Registered, so there will be a warm, inclusive welcome for everyone in the community.

Contact 'meet at mun dot ca' to book space at Johnson Geo Centre, or anywhere on St. John's or Signal Hill Campus. https://www.mun.ca/meet/spaces/st-johns-campus/

10/27/2025

- 🎉🎉Client survey says that Memorial University's Conference and Event Services offers amazing spaces for events, and amazing people to match!

Our April - August client survey came back with a smashing 4.6/5, and lots of shout-outs for the team 😎.

As always, booking with Conference and Event Services supports student entrepreneurship and innovation. And we're Rainbow Registered, so you can expect a warm welcome to match the great service.

Contact 'meet at mun dot ca' to book space anywhere on St. John's or Signal Hill Campus. There's are a lot of options! https://www.mun.ca/meet/spaces/st-johns-campus/

10/20/2025

- From whale skeletons to lecture halls — meet at the heart of campus. The St. John’s Campus of Memorial University offers spaces for gatherings of every shape and size.

Contact 'meet at mun dot ca' to meet under Altum the giant blue whale, or to book space anywhere on St. John's or Signal Hill Campus.

As always, booking with Conference and Event Services supports student entrepreneurship and innovation.

09/19/2025

🎉👏🎉👏 Hooray and congratulations to Conference & Event Services Event Coordinator EMILY LOCKYER! Emily attended the Event Atlantic Excellence Awards Reception in Nova Scotia September 17 and came home with the prestigious 'Emerging Leader Under 30' Award. The event took place at Coldstream Clear Distillery, Truro. Emily's mother, Debbie was there for the presentation. The award itself was a beautiful wooden Smudging Box hand-crafted by Chief Bob Gloade of Millbrook First Nation.

Event Atlantic is an industry organization that inspires and elevates the growth, development and sustainability of Event Tourism in Atlantic Canada. The Award Reception was part of the Event Atlantic Event Summit 2025.

Emily is a superstar Event Coordinator and the Memorial University's entire CES team is proud of the remarkable recognition!

09/02/2025

- Does your workplace have a Swiss Army Knife type? One who seems to have a solution for just about every sort of tech-type problem?

SYSTEMS OFFICER STEVE LILLY holds that title for Memorial University - Conference and Event Services. Whenever, whatever the technical need might be, Steve is the go-to guy for the solution.

His main area of expertise is smooth operations of systems - audio, visual, live-streaming, registration, payment - that let Conference and Event Services as well as other Departments of the University do their business. But that's just the big picture. The fun is in the detail.

Steve's work is most obvious when in the back of the EIX Main Conference Hall at client events. Presentations, panel discussions, workshops... when screens or streaming are part of the program, Steve is there, managing a collection of links, email attachments, jump drives, and hand-written notes on napkins. From that spot in the back of the room he's making the magic happen at the front of the room on the three big screens and around the world through live-streams.

It's a lot to juggle, but Steve calmly tames the tech dragons and makes it all make sense. (And just so it's known, many of these services are part of the normal booking package at Emera Innovation Exchange. Sweet deal!).

That 'do as we go' capacity was learned and earned in the business of live sound. Before joining CES in 2022, Steve was a music tech specialist at Memorial's School of Music. In the days of the pandemic, he and the team at the Music School were early innovators/adopters of concerts online. Prior to that position, Steve worked with one of the most widely-renowned orchestras in the world, the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

Before all that, as a Memorial student, Steve studied Biology, Music Theory and did his Masters Degree in Sound Recording.

And in addition to all of the above, 'Steve' is the name called out when something tech goes wrong in the office. That call is usually answered with a clever quip, a booming laugh, and an answer that works. He also brings Timbits into the office.

Outside of work, Steve enjoys family life with partner Jenn, their two young daughters, and Clementine the Newfoundland-St. Bernard. And he's a musician.

07/22/2025

This was so fun - and rewarding!