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March 22-25, 2027
New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterNew Orleans, LA

Speakers 2027

The education opportunities at Cater+Event feature presentations from more than 100 industry luminaries who have been there, done that, and are armed with content that’s trendy, thought-provoking, and always influential.

TerricaBrand StrategistTerrica™ Inc.

Wedding pros walk out of Terrica's sessions having already booked clients, using lines she taught them minutes earlier. That is what happens in her room. She is the strategist who did not just teach the wedding industry how to price, sell, and systemize. She built it the tools. Through Wedding Pro HQ, Terrica created an entire suite of AI workers for wedding professionals, the equivalent of a CEO, a marketing director, and a finance lead, without the payroll. It comes from real experience: more than two decades running her own wedding and events business and nearly ten years on stages, with a voice that is in demand across eight countries and counting. She has taught over 4,400 professionals, and her sessions are practical, funny, and refreshingly honest, sending people home with systems they use the next morning instead of notes they never read again. A Smart Meetings Best of Stage speaker and NACE Speaker of the Year nominee, featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot, and PeopleTV. Affectionately known as the Motherhustler, Terrica helps event pros grow their profit and their peace at the same time. When she is not on a stage or building the next thing, she is in the Golden Isles with her kids, sneaking cake for breakfast, and quoting RuPaul's Drag Race like scripture to her thoroughly unbothered cat.

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