Momentum 2026

Momentum is Magellan Financial's annual conference, and in 2026 it landed at the Aria in Las Vegas with a brief that pulled in two directions: a full day of general sessions and panels that had to feel polished and on-brand, followed by an evening concert with Train that had to feel like a real show, not a corporate band on a corporate stage. Fat Fish Media produced the whole program end to end, including the concert, which we built alongside Train's own touring team.

The brief

Magellan wanted the Aria's ballroom to read as Momentum, not as a hotel. That meant environmental branding from the moment attendees stepped off the elevators, a stage that could carry a keynote and a panel of five in the afternoon and a touring act at night, and a production team that could flip the room between the two without a gap in the schedule.

What we produced

We designed and built the stage and scenic: a layered set of hexagon and gear-pattern panels in Momentum's palette, backed by an LED wall for presentation content and speaker IMAG, with dimensional Momentum logos and welcome signage carried through the foyer and lounges. A bookshelf-style lounge set with greenery and warm lighting gave sponsors and attendees a place to meet between sessions. Lighting covered the room as well as the stage, with a color wash across the ballroom's draped ceiling that shifted from daytime neutrals to concert purples and ambers. Audio was engineered for speech first, then re-tuned for a live band, with a wireless package for the panels and a full band input list for the evening.

Producing the Train concert

The concert was a collaboration with Train's production team. We advanced the show with the band's crew weeks out, working through their rider, input list, backline, monitor needs and lighting looks, then designed our rig so their show fit inside the Momentum stage rather than replacing it. On the day, their engineers and ours shared the front-of-house position: our team ran the room, the PA and the Momentum scenic and video, and the band's team mixed and lit their set on our system. The result was a headline concert produced to touring standards on a conference stage, with one combined crew and no visible handoff.

From general session to concert

The same stage carried both halves of the day. During the general session the LED wall ran slides, sponsor loops and multi-camera IMAG so the back of the ballroom could see the panelists. After the dinner reset, the lighting rig switched to the concert plot, the PA was retuned for Train's set, and the room filled to the stage lip. The transition happened on schedule because the rig was designed for both uses from the first drawing.

The result

Magellan got a conference that looked and sounded like its brand and a concert that attendees talked about on the way out. For Fat Fish Media it is a clear example of what one production team can do when the staging, lighting, LED, audio and show calling all come from the same shop, and of how we work with an artist's touring team when a conference books a headliner: one design, one combined crew, one invoice, and no seams between the business and the entertainment.