The Case Conference 2026 · October 1–3 · Atlanta
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October 1–3, 2026 · Hotel Phoenix · Atlanta, Georgia

An Immersive Business & Design Conference

The Case
Conference

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Three days with working interior designers, dealing with the business underneath the work. Pricing, procurement, contracts, hiring, AI, licensing, visibility.

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Designer · $1,990

Principal · $2,990

The Case Conference 2026

October 1–3, 2026

Hotel Phoenix Atlanta

70 Centennial Olympic Park Dr NW, Atlanta, Georgia

For interior designers who are ready to look at the business behind the work.

What we're getting into

The business behind the design.

The industry gives us plenty of places to see product, walk market, meet people and take a beautiful picture. There are far fewer rooms where designers say out loud what they charged, what they kept, and what the project actually cost to deliver.

CASE is that room. Pricing, procurement, contracts, hiring, AI, licensing, brand partnerships, visibility, capacity and money, discussed by people running firms right now. The beauty is not the argument for coming. The conversations are.

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Real businesses. Real decisions.

Who is in this room

The interior designer at an inflection point

You do not have to be the most established person in the room to belong in it. You do need to be ready to engage the business behind your work with more intention.

Whether you are building the foundation, refining a firm you have carried for years, or bringing years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience into a newer design business, CASE gives you the industry-specific context to make better decisions about what comes next.

01

Building the foundation

You have real clients, real opportunities and real decisions to make. Now you need stronger structure around pricing, process, scope, procurement and profitability.

02

Refining the firm

You have been doing the work for years. The question is no longer whether you can design. It is how the business needs to evolve around the level of work you are already producing.

03

Bringing experience with you

You may be newer to owning a design firm, but you are not new to leadership, business or entrepreneurship. You are applying an established skill set to a new industry and need the context to do it well.

You do not need to have all the answers. You need to be ready to take the next decision seriously.

Who is teaching

People who actually work inside the decisions we are discussing.

An attorney who works with interior designers. A business educator and firm principal. A designer and media entrepreneur. A licensing and product expert. Visualization leaders working directly with emerging technology. A growth strategist. And a designer whose work, licensed collections, media presence, and authority have helped shape the industry.

These are not seven random speakers attached to seven random topics. Their experience maps directly to the decisions we are asking you to examine during the weekend.

Corey Damen Jenkins

Closing keynote

Corey Damen Jenkins

Principal and CEO, Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates

AD100 and Elle Décor A-List. Author of two Rizzoli books and only the second interior designer on MasterClass. Knocked on 779 doors before landing his first client. Licensed collections with Kravet, Hancock & Moore, Maitland-Smith, and Eichholtz.

The decision it illuminates

Visibility, authority, reputation, and legacy

Visibility, Authority & Legacy · Saturday, 2:30 PM · Book signing after
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Principals in Pajamas panel · Friday evening
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The program

Seven sessions. Seven business decisions interior designers keep running into.

Every session deals with two things: the business problem, and the leadership required from the person running the business.

Because:

  • A better contract does not help if you refuse to enforce it.
  • A better price does not help if you immediately discount it.
  • A better process does not help if every client gets an exception.

At some point, the business and the person leading it have to catch up with each other.

There are no competing breakout tracks. Everyone moves through the same seven Main Stage sessions because the order matters.

01

Consultation

Clarity and direction

02

Anchors

Pricing, standards, boundaries, and protection

03

Shell

Capacity, technology, diversification, and growth decisions

04

Enhancements

Visibility, authority, and what you want to be known for

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07 Closing keynote

Visibility, Authority & Legacy

Corey Damen Jenkins

What do you want to be known for?

Does the magazine feature matter? Should you pay for the visibility opportunity? Is the brand deal worth your time? Visibility for the sake of visibility is exhausting, and followers are not the same thing as authority. Recognition only matters if it supports the work, opportunities, relationships, and legacy you actually want to build. Corey Damen Jenkins closes CASE with a conversation about the long game. The work. The consistency. The relationships. The decisions. And what it takes to build a name that means something in this industry.

You leave with

A clearer decision about what you want to be known for, and what the next chapter of the firm has to support.

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Beyond the Main Stage

CASE is an entire experience.

We care about what you learn. We also care about whether you have somewhere to sit down, have a conversation, discover something new, meet someone useful, eat something good, and actually enjoy yourself. We are designers. The environment matters too.

All conference attendees

Welcome Party

We start Thursday night at Eichholtz Atlanta in Buckhead Village. Cocktails. Music. Beautiful design.

And a chance to meet the designers, speakers, partners, and creative leaders you will be spending the next two days with before the Main Stage even opens.

Thursday Evening · Eichholtz Atlanta

All conference attendees

The Souk Marketplace + Discover Your Design Ethos

Shop. Source. Discover. The Souk brings together products, brands, artisans, services, and resources for the design industry in a marketplace inspired by the spirit of Morocco.

Discover Your Design Ethos adds another layer: as you move through the activation, your selections begin to build a profile of the materials, colors, forms, and design details you are naturally drawn to. Come curious.

Friday + Saturday · Activation Row

Principal Level

Principal Level only

Case Connect

Bring the actual issue. Not a hypothetical business question. Not the polished version.

Principal Level attendees receive two pre-scheduled private 15-minute conversations with two different CASE Connect coaches who understand the interior design industry. Use the time to get perspective on the pricing problem, team issue, purchasing decision, client situation, growth question, or next move you are already thinking about. This is focused perspective, not ongoing coaching or a full business audit.

Friday + Saturday · The CASE Lounge

Principal Level

Principal Level only

The CASE Lounge

You do not need to be “on” for ten straight hours. The CASE Lounge gives Principal Level attendees a private place to connect, have quieter conversations, decompress, or simply sit down between sessions.

Interior designers are grown. We have businesses, families, clients, children, partners, parents, deadlines, and lives. We do not need a conference trying to wear us out.

Friday + Saturday · Conference level

Principal Level

Principal Level only

Principals in Pajamas

This is where we get into the stuff people usually clean up before telling the story publicly. The bad hire. The pricing mistake. The project you should have said no to.

The team decision. The money conversation. The pivot. Experienced firm owners come together for a candid moderated conversation about what it actually takes to lead a design business. Questions are submitted in advance, followed by an open conversation. Pajamas, cocktails, and late-night bites included.

Friday Evening · Hotel Phoenix

All attendees

The CASE Awards Gala

An evening inspired by the warmth, artistry, and hospitality of Morocco. Begin with our portrait experience and handcrafted cocktails before moving into a seated three-course dinner and open bar.

Then we celebrate this year's CASE Awards honorees across ten categories. And when the awards are over, stay for The After Glow, the final hour of the Gala with music, cocktails, and dancing. Co-hosted by Calvin Watt and Jameelah Watkins-Mallett.

Saturday Evening · Grand ballroom

View ticket levels Case Connect, the CASE Lounge, and Principals in Pajamas are Principal Level only.

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The 2026 partners

The brands in the room with you.

Choose your access

Same Main Stage. Different level of access.

Every Designer and Principal Level attendee experiences the same seven Main Stage sessions.

Principal Level adds the private access: two Case Connect conversations, the CASE Lounge, and Principals in Pajamas on Friday night. Choose on access, not status.

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Saturday evening only

Gala Only · $790

For the guest joining us Saturday evening for the CASE Awards Gala. Red carpet, cocktail hour, seated dinner, open bar, the awards, and The After Glow. Does not include Main Stage sessions or the daytime conference.

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Experience Designer $1,990 Principal $2,990
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The investment

The right room can change the way you run your business.

CASE is for designers ready to make stronger decisions about pricing, profitability, partnerships, team, contracts and growth.

The value is not in simply being in the room. It is in what you are able to do differently when you leave.

Registration includes the full conference experience. Travel and hotel are booked separately. Registration is non-refundable. Transfers may be considered case by case.

Before you decide

Hotel Phoenix Atlanta, 70 Centennial Olympic Park Dr NW, Atlanta, Georgia. Conference programming runs on the second floor.

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October 1–3, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia

You already know how to make the work beautiful.

Now come deal with the business underneath it.

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Designer Level: $1,990 · Principal Level: $2,990

Brand partnerships

Where design brands become part of what designers specify next.

The Case Conference is the flagship live experience of The Case Collective. Three days with principal designers working on the parts of their firms that decide what happens next: pricing, operations, purchasing, and design authority.

For partners, that means proximity to the people who decide what gets specified.

October 1–3, 2026 · Hotel Phoenix Atlanta · Atlanta, Georgia

Brands that have partnered with CASE

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The audience

The people in the room influence more than one project.

Not students. Not hobbyists. A curated room of design-led businesses.

Firm owners and principals actively leading projects and building vendor relationships.

When a designer adopts a product or vendor, that choice travels across multiple projects, multiple budgets, and years of trade relationships.

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Primary markets include Atlanta, New York, Houston and Dallas, Washington D.C., Charlotte and High Point, Miami, and Tampa and Orlando.

How CASE works

Your brand is not displayed. It is experienced in context.

CASE is built around the moments designers actually pay attention to: real conversation, peer connection, hospitality, product discovery, and the celebration of design leadership. Partners show up through programming, the CASE Lounge, principal gatherings, the Awards Gala, The Souq, and proprietary CASE experiences.

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Partnership pathways

Choose how your brand enters the CASE conversation.

Every CASE partnership is built around one objective: category leadership, attendee engagement, product discovery, content visibility, or long-term relationship.

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Pathway 01 · Lead the Conversation

Be present where category influence is built.

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Pathway 02 · Own a Conference Moment

Make your brand essential to the experience.

CASE Moments place your brand inside experiences built for participation and conversation. Not a logo beside the experience. Part of why attendees remember it.

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Pathway 03 · Join The Souq

A curated marketplace for direct discovery.

Introduce products, demonstrate, sample, sell, and build relationships with the CASE community across both days.

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Reach beyond the room

A conference moment with a longer runway.

Partnerships extend past the weekend through content, email, social distribution, and a national ambassador network.

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Ambassador collaborations layer onto any partnership: creator content, conference takeovers, user-generated content, and market activations. Principal Ambassador from $5,000. Collective Ambassador from $1,500.

Partner results

Partners come back.

Stated results reflect partner-reported outcomes and CASE's own event data, not a guaranteed return.

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Partner experience

Thoughtful activation. Clear execution.

Creative on the front end. Disciplined behind the scenes.

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Past partners

Brands that have already met this audience.

National manufacturers, showrooms, technology platforms, media, service businesses, and independent design firms have partnered with CASE across programming, product environments, and content.

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Partner with CASE

Let's build the right partnership.

The strongest CASE partnerships feel natural to the room and valuable to the attendee.

Tell us what your brand wants to accomplish and we will match the pathway to your category, objective, and investment level.

Leah Rosser

Director of Partnerships

partners@thecasecollective.co

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Sponsorship is a conversation. Nothing is purchased from this page, and category exclusivity is confirmed in writing.
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Leah will follow up from partners@thecasecollective.co within two business days with the pathways that fit your category and objective.

October 1–3, 2026 · Atlanta

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