800+
Students at Grad Fest 2026, built from scratch by one graduate.
Make event planning your career.
Become the person
behind the events
everyone talks about.
Corporate events, festivals, concerts, product launches: the Event Planner Program gives you the complete system, from idea to event day, to plan events that impress and to charge what you're truly worth.
10,000+
Graduates
Evening
Classes · ET.
Official
Certificate
New
AI Module
Graduate with $4,800+ built for you
Web page, ad creatives and your first-clients plan, done for you.
Student highlight · Grad Fest 2026
Grad Fest: a success by
one of our graduates.
After the program, Guillaume Patenaude produced his biggest event to date: Grad Fest, built from the ground up. Here are the numbers, then his story in his own words.
What Guillaume managed thanks to the program:
- The site plan: stage, fencing, parking, food zones and emergency corridors
- DJ programming, ticketing, the snack bar and the food trucks
- Budgets, insurance and suppliers
- Volunteer training for event day
- Social media and promotion
"The program gave me a much more professional vision.
— Guillaume Patenaude, graduate and founder of Grad Fest 2026
Every detail can make a difference."
Discover your ideal path
💻 100% online
🕐 Evening classes (ET)
Malika Mayard
Before: employee
Now: Founder, Bleiv Event Management
Become a Corporate Event Planner
Conventions, galas, product launches: the highest-paying segment of the industry. Learn how to win these contracts and deliver them with the professionalism companies demand.
Nathalie Bertrand
Les productions Folikan
www.folikan.com
Produce Festivals & Concerts
Stages, crowds, sold-out box offices. Learn to design an event from A to Z: programming, safety, site plan, and deliver it like a pro.
Nick Bouffard
Before: Graphic designer
Now: Founder, Unick Experience
www.unickexperience.com
Launch Your Own Event Business
Launch your own agency: structure your offer, set your prices, land your first contracts and build an income that belongs to you.
André Bibeau
Before: DJ, hosting other people’s events
Now: delivered the official after-party of an F1 event
www.premiumevenementiel.ca
Take Your Event Career to the Next Level
You already deliver events. Structure your practice, close the blind spots, budgets, insurance, safety, and go after large-scale contracts.
Mathieu Duprat
Before: Comms manager: events piled on top of the real job
Now: Leads the annual product launch, 250 guests
Run Your Company's Events Like a Pro
Product launches, conferences, internal events: it's part of your job, but nobody ever taught you how. Learn the professionals' method, more impact, less improvising.
Build the skills the industry is looking for. From positioning to launching your business, you move forward project by project, coached at every step, all the way to the final pitch of your own event concept.
- 13 weeks of professional training
- 1 complete event project, built module by module
- Evening classes (6:30–9:30 p.m. ET)
- Bonus: we build your web page for you
- Coaching and lifetime private community
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01
Master the foundations of event planning
Weeks 1–2A-to-Z processSpecifications documentEvent typesEntrepreneur profile -
02
Structure your event business
Week 2Corporate structureBusiness modelCompliance -
03
Design programming that draws a crowd
Week 3Brainstorming & themesProgrammingArtist contractsTechnical riders -
04
Run your events with tech tools and AI
Weeks 3, 9–10TimelineBudgetTech toolsAI & ChatGPT -
05
Orchestrate logistics like a pro
Weeks 4, 11Site layout planSuppliersProduction schedulesRegulations & safety -
06
Create a memorable brand image and atmosphere
Weeks 5, 7–8Atmosphere & décorSocial mediaPress relationsCommunications -
07
Find your market, your sponsors and your funding
Weeks 6, 9–10Market researchTarget audienceSponsorshipsFundingEco-responsibility -
08
Launch and pitch your event concept
Weeks 11–13Business pitchProfessional etiquettePost-mortemFinal pitch presentation
Included with the program:
Coaching
Exclusive guest lectures
Lifetime private community
Official certificate
🚀 The launch package
What you build here doesn't stay in a PowerPoint. You graduate ready to launch your business or your first event
During the program, our team builds your business launch kit FOR you while your coach helps you sharpen the strategy. You walk out ready to promote your business, or your first event, from day one.
Your business plan — or your project plan, done
You finish the program with your launch plan done: a business plan for your company, or a project plan for your event. Positioning, offer, pricing, numbers. Not a homework assignment, but the document you'll actually use, built by you and refined live with your instructors.
- Business plan or event project plan — matched to your goal
- Positioning, offer and pricing: decided, not vague
- Ready to show a bank, a sponsor, a partner or your first client
Your web page, built for you
Our team builds your professional web page while you're still in the program. Your services, your portfolio, your contact form, live and ready to send to a prospect.
- Built by our team, not left to you
- Your first event project featured as your portfolio piece
- Online before you graduate
Your brand and your content, ready to go
Our team designs your complete brand: visual identity, business cards and banners, plus a set of finished visuals built around your offer. Not templates. Run them as ads or post them on your socials, they work both ways. You walk into your first client meeting looking like a company, and your promotion is ready the week you graduate.
- Visual identity, cards and banners, delivered as files you own outright
- Finished visuals: launch a campaign or fill your feed
- Consistent across your site, socials and materials, no design skills required
Our client roadmap, done
You graduate with a 90 day roadmap to your first clients: your Google Ads proposal so people searching for a planner find you, word for word scripts for reaching out to clients week by week, and partnership templates to team up with venues, caterers and suppliers who send you work. The strategy is done. You just follow it.
- Your Google Ads proposal, so clients searching online find you
- 90 days of outreach scripts, week by week
- Partnership templates to turn venues and suppliers into referral sources
Based on graduate reviews
"Honestly, I couldn't ask for a better school and I recommend it to everyone!"
"Zoom Academy was the pursuit of a dream for me! Passionate teachers, and courses each more interesting than the last…"
Our graduates say it better than we do.
Join the 10,000+ people who made event planning their career
From employees to event entrepreneurs
"At first we were organizing small events for the people around us, without a clear structure. The training allowed us to professionalize our approach, build a real offer and launch our business faster. Today we develop our own projects and deliver cultural events with a much clearer vision."
From side project to full-time studio
"We were saying yes to everything and pricing by feel. The program gave us a rate card, contracts and a way to find corporate clients. Within a season we replaced our salaries and started turning work down."
Beginner or already in the field: your 4-step plan toward paying contracts
A clear career plan
Free career consultation
13 weeks, 8 modules, one real event project. You leave with a professional-grade event plan, not theory.
Personalized coaching
Coaching:
A dedicated coach who guides you at every step, from planning your first event to landing your first paying contracts.
Practical event internship
Your business or your project, ready to launch:
We build it with you: your launch plan, web page, brand creatives, ready-to-run ads and the strategy to land your first clients. Ready to sell your first events.
A network that supports you
The Zoom Academy community
Lifetime access, contract referrals, partnerships between graduates.
We don't leave you with a diploma.
We hand you a business that's ready to launch.
Earn a certificate that proves what you can do.
At the end of the program, you receive the official Zoom Academy certificate for the Event Planning Program. It carries the name of a school that has trained event professionals since 2007, with over 10,000 graduates in the industry. A concrete asset to win over clients, sponsors and employers.
Your first contract within 6 months. Or your money back.
Certain conditions apply.
See all the details
Join a 10,000-strong network of event professionals
"Our graduates don't leave with just a certificate: they leave with a network that refers them, hires them and collaborates with them."
Josée Boulianne
— Director of Zoom Academy
Grow your network
Lifetime private community: mutual support, contract referrals, teams formed between graduates.
Learn from the best
35 Zoom Academy experts, including instructors who've worked with Cirque du Soleil, Formula 1 events, and Celine Dion's productions.
Exclusive guest lectures
Sponsorships, regulations & safety, visual design, eco-responsibility: topics no free tutorial covers seriously.
Zoom Academy or the other options? Here's what you get.
Duration 13 weeks
- Business model + go-to-market strategy
- AI module applied to event planning
- Coaching
- Final project: pitch your own event concept
- Lifetime community
- Certificate
- Completed business or project plan
- Web page + everything to launch
Price $
Your event-planning career starts with a free conversation.
🔴 Limited spots
Lila, Alex and Alexis
Admissions advisors
After you book
A 15-minute Zoom call with an advisor: your goals, the right path, and your financing options. No pressure.
FAQ
No. The only prerequisite: a passion for organizing events or the drive to launch a project. The program starts from zero and takes you all the way to launch.
Yes. Every class is live online in the evening, so you can follow the program from anywhere in North America.
Evening classes from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. ET, twice a week, over 13 weeks. Plan for a few extra hours a week to advance your own event project.
That is exactly how it was designed. Classes are live, two evenings a week, about six hours in total. Most of our students work full-time through the entire program. And if life gets in the way one week, your coaches and the community are there to help you get back on track.
Anyone passionate about events who wants to build a career or launch a business. No diploma or prior experience is required. Your admissions call confirms the fit.
Pay in full or spread the cost over monthly instalments. Several financing options exist, and your advisor reviews the ones you qualify for during the free consultation.
Yes. On completion you receive the official Zoom Academy certificate for the Event Planning Program, backed by 19 years of graduates. It’s a credential clients and employers recognize.
A completed business plan, a live web page, your brand creatives, finished visuals for your ads and socials, a Google Ads proposal, your complete event project built in class, and your certificate.
Launch your own event business, work in-house for a company, join an agency, a festival or a non-profit, or freelance as a coordinator on large productions.
A single wedding bills between $3,000 and $10,000. A corporate contract — gala, conference, product launch — runs $15,000 to $40,000, and those clients come back every year.
Yes. Graduates and students who refer someone who enrols receive a thank-you bonus. Ask your advisor for the current terms.
The next cohort starts September 28 and spots are limited, first come, first served. Book your free consultation to reserve yours.