Planning an event at the Georgia International Convention Center? Atlanta Music Pros can help coordinate audio, video, lighting, entertainment and production requirements, subject to the venue’s policies and vendor requirements. For events at the GICC we can provide or coordinate exhibit hall and ballroom audio, wireless microphones, general session production, IMAG and multi-camera video, projection and LED, breakout room AV, live streaming, stage lighting, staging and corporate entertainment — working within the facility’s own service departments and requirements.
The GICC describes itself as Georgia’s second largest convention center, and its defining advantage is location: it sits minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson at 2000 Convention Center Concourse in College Park. For programs where most attendees arrive by air, that removes a trip into the city entirely.
Operationally it works like a convention center rather than a hotel, with separate service departments for audiovisual, information technology and utilities. Exhibitors and planners order through those channels, which means the useful early question is what your event is required to order from the facility and what it may bring.
As at any convention center, the space type drives the approach — an exhibit hall, a ballroom and a meeting room are three different problems at the same guest count.
Speech first.
Seeing the stage and keeping the content.
Content people can read.
Making the stage look intentional.
Someone owning the show.
The half most AV companies do not provide.
The facility’s airport proximity shapes the kind of programs it hosts: fly-in meetings, regional conferences and trade events.
Programs where attendees land, meet and leave without entering the city. Speech-first audio and reliable presentation support. See corporate meeting AV.
General session plus breakouts across a day or two. See conference AV.
Exhibitor booth audio, displays, demo microphones and session rooms. See trade show AV.
Ballroom or hall main-room production with IMAG and show calling. See general session production.
Banquet programs with award playback, lighting and entertainment. See awards gala production.
Sessions delivered to remote attendees over ordered connectivity. See hybrid event production.
Four notes specific to producing an event here.
The GICC maintains separate audiovisual, information technology and utility service departments for exhibitors and planners. What your event is required to order through those channels versus what it may bring in is the first thing to establish, because it determines whether an outside production quote is usable as written. Get it in writing during scoping.
Fly-in programs compress differently from hotel-based ones. Attendees arrive and depart in tighter windows, which pushes session timing and makes a late start more costly than usual — people have flights. That argues for arriving with content already collected and tested rather than resolving laptop problems at the top of a session.
Hall speech at any real guest count requires distributed coverage rather than volume, because a high hard ceiling reflects sound and reverberation is what destroys intelligibility. A ballroom at the same headcount is a much simpler problem. Knowing your space assignment before quoting matters more than the headcount does.
The GICC operates as a cashless facility, which is worth knowing for on-site incidentals during a production. Parking is reservable in advance. Venue policies, outside-vendor requirements, power, internet, loading access and production restrictions should be confirmed with the venue during pre-production. Many hotels, arenas and convention facilities maintain in-house AV departments, exclusive service providers, union labor rules, rigging approvals and outside-vendor fees, and those terms decide what any outside company can do in the room.
An illustrative configuration for a regional program where most attendees arrive and depart the same day. This is a hypothetical illustration of how a production of this shape fits together. It is not a past project, not a quote and not a price.
For fly-in programs, collect every presentation before the date. A ten-minute laptop problem on a compressed one-day agenda comes out of somebody’s session, and attendees have flights.
This page exists because planners search for AV help by venue. It does not indicate any affiliation, endorsement, partnership, preferred-vendor status or approved-vendor status, and we make no claim to any. the Georgia International Convention Center is named here only to describe the kind of production planning an event in that building involves.
Whether an outside production company can work in a given space, and on what terms, is decided by the venue and by your own contract with it. We will work within those terms, and we will tell you plainly when something you have asked for is not ours to promise.
Atlanta Music Pros is an Atlanta-based company covering Metro Atlanta and North Georgia. We travel to the venue rather than operating suburban offices.
We can provide or coordinate hall and ballroom audio, microphones, general session production, IMAG, projection or LED, breakout AV, streaming, lighting, staging and entertainment for events at the GICC, working within the facility’s own service departments and requirements. Establish in writing what your event must order through facility services and what it may bring, since that determines how an outside quote applies.
The facility maintains separate audiovisual, information technology and utility service departments, and what is required versus optional can vary by event type and by whether you are an exhibitor, an organizer or a client licensing space. Rather than state a rule that may not apply to your event, confirm the current requirements with the facility — we will scope to whatever they are.
For programs where most attendees fly in, it removes a trip into the city in both directions, which shortens the day and reduces travel cost and risk. The facility is minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson with MARTA access. The tradeoff is a more compressed agenda, since arrival and departure windows are tighter, which puts more weight on starting sessions on time.
Yes, substantially. An exhibit hall has a high hard ceiling that reflects sound, and the resulting reverberation destroys speech intelligibility in a way that volume cannot fix. Halls need distributed coverage — more speakers closer to the audience, each working less hard. A ballroom at the same headcount is a much simpler design, so the space assignment matters more than the guest count.
Yes, with a suitable wired connection ordered through the facility’s IT services. Shared or public wireless is not a reasonable basis for a live stream, and dedicated connectivity is a paid order with an advance deadline and higher on-site rates. We will specify exactly what the stream needs so it can be ordered in time rather than discovered on show day.
Yes. Reception and dinner music, an MC for an awards program, a DJ for an after-party and live musicians all come from the same contract as the technical production. For banquet-led events that is often the larger part of the brief, with the technical requirement limited to program audio, a screen for playback and lighting.
Tell us which space you have been assigned and the program shape. For this facility we will also want to know what you are required to order through facility services.