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February 1-5, 2025, Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, AZ, USA 
(including arrival and departure dates)
SHOW FLOOR OPEN

2024 Show Schedule

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

7:00 am – 6:00 pm

REGISTRATION AND BADGE PICKUP OPEN

Come to Registration and Badge Pick-Up in the Gold Room just off the entrance lobby of the Arizona Biltmore for touchless badge pick-up via QR Code sent to all attendees in advance of the show by email. Be sure you have your QR Code email ready on your phone when you arrive to save time. Badge Lanyards and Show Bags are sponsored by Smart Age Solutions, M-T1 (front of McArthur Ballroom) and TAB4 (front of Arizona Biltmore Ballroom). (front of Arizona Biltmore Ballroom).

Badge Lanyards & Show Bags Sponsored By

7:30 am – 9:30 pm

EXHIBITOR SETUP

Exhibitors should now prepare for the show floor to open

8:00 – 9:30 am

EXHIBITOR BREAKFAST

Served In Respective Exhibit Areas

8:00 – 9:30 am

RETAILER BREAKFAST

Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

BREAKFAST EDUCATION TODAY from 9:00-10:00 am  (Breakfast served 8-9:30 am) features Kelly McDonald, considered one of the nation’s top experts in leadership, marketing, the customer experience and consumer trends. Her client experience includes brands such as Toyota, State Farm, NASA, Kimberly-Clark, Nike, Harley-Davidson, Great Clips, Miller Beer, and Sherwin-Williams. Kelly was named one of the “10 Most Booked Speakers in the U.S.” and ranked #1 on the list of “25 Hot Speakers” by Successful Meetings Magazine. She has been featured on CNBC, in Forbes, INC. Magazine, BusinessWeek, CEO World, Fast Company, and more.

This Morning’s Session Sponsored By:

 

All Day

REGISTRATION AND BADGE PICKUP OPEN

Watch this website for download instructions for our Official Show App sponsored by NATURAL DIAMOND COUNCIL (NDC). NDC will also lead a very special at-show “Influencer” effort to editorially cover products and happenings at Centurion 2024 and broadcast the many posts to NDC’s (and our influencers’) wide consumer audiences! Featured Influencers for Centurion 2024 are: Tracey Ellison, The Diamonds GirlEngagement 101;  Benjamin Guttery, Third Coast Gems; Jennifer Heebner; Grant Mobley, Jewelry and Watch Editor at Only Natural DiamondsNDC will be based in the Prescott Room, adjacent to both Centurion’s Meeting Room Exhibitors and the Arizona Biltmore Ballroom, site of all Centurion Breakfasts and Lunches.

Sponsored by

10:00 AM – 6:00 pm

SHOW FLOOR IS OPEN

Enjoy our great exhibitors!

10:00 AM – 6:00 pm

DESIGN AWARDS VOTING

Retailer attendees will be able cast your votes for your favorite designs for our annual Excellence In Design awards through 5:00 PM Monday, January 29, 2024 right at the “live” Centurion Excellence In Design Awards Cases in the foyer of our fashion-forward McArthur Ballroom exhibit area. Retailer Buyer Personnel each receive a Gift Card when they stop to cast their vote!

11:00 am – Noon and 2:00 – 5:00 pm

COFFEE & CAPPUCCINO SERVICE

Enjoy a delicious cup of coffee or cappuccino. Stations will be located in all exhibit areas. Sponsored by Luxury Display Group, F-T17, front of Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom.

Sponsored by

12:30 – 2:30 pm

LUNCH

Served in Arizona Biltmore Ballroom, with ‘Grab And Go ‘ Lunches for those in a hurry available on the Patio in front of the MacArthur Ballroom, as well as in the North Foyer of the Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom.

Lunches sponsored by AMPTIVE, TAB9, front of Arizona Biltmore Ballroom and F-T11, Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom

4:30 – 5:30 pm

OPEN BAR ON SHOW FLOOR

Open Bars are sponsored by LOUDR, A Bottom Line Agency, F-T5-6, Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom.

6:00 – 8:00 pm

EXHIBITOR MOVE-OUT

Exhibitors can begin taking down their booths at this time.

7:00 – 9:00 pm

OPEN BAR, ARIZONA BILTMORE BALLROOM

Prior to and during Dinner ahead of our Featured Entertainer, Nate Bargatze,  from 7:00-9:00 pm.

Open Bars are sponsored by LOUDR, A Bottom Line Agency, F-T5-6, Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom. Access with proper show badge only.

7:00 – 9:00 pm

GRAND FINALE DINNER WITH FAMED COMEDIAN NATE BARGATZE!

Enjoy a wonderful, wind-down dinner and drinks together with your many industry friends and then… Centurion’s 2024 Featured Entertainment, NATE BARGATZE!!!

NATE BARGATZE will perform Tuesday Night, January 30, 2024 at about 9:30 PM, Arizona Biltmore Ballroom, Conference Center. Get there early to get your seats!


 

Hailed as “The Nicest Man in Stand-Up,” by The Atlantic Magazine and a “Rising Star,” by CBS Morning, 2021 Grammy nominated comedian and podcaster Nate Bargatze is selling out shows around the world.

An Old Hickory, Tennessee native, Bargatze followed in the showbiz footsteps of his father, a former clown turned world class magician, who’s influence is seen on his’s 2015 debut Comedy Central special, Full Time Magic and his debut album, Yelled at By a Clown, which reached #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts and remained on Billboard’s Top Ten Comedy Charts for weeks.

Bargatze’s half-hour Netflix Special The Standups, premiered in 2017 and his first solo one-hour Netflix special, The Tennessee Kid, premiered globally with rave reviews in 2019. In 2021, he released his critically acclaimed second Netflix special, The Greatest Average American, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. On January 31st, Nate released his latest and third 1-hour special, Nate Bargatze: Hello World, on Amazon Prime which now holds the record as Amazon’s most-streamed original comedy special in its first 28 days of viewership.