Meet Jonathan!
Jonathan Aymin is the Founder and CEO of Common Sense Events, a national venue management company, and one of the wedding industry’s leading voices on venue operations and growth. With more than a decade of experience managing venues across the country and overseeing thousands of successful events, he helps venue owners build profitable, sustainable businesses through operational excellence and exceptional hospitality. Jonathan is also the host of The Venue Rx podcast and founder of the Wedding & Event Venue Association (WEVA), where he shares practical insights and connects venue professionals from around the world. He lives in Alabama with his wife and their seven children.
Speaker Session:
The AI-Enabled Venue: How Smart Operators Will Run Leaner, Sell Faster, and Make Better Decisions
AI is quickly becoming an operational advantage for wedding and event venues - but the opportunity extends far beyond writing social media posts. In this practical session, Jonathan Aymin will show venue owners and operators how to use AI to reduce administrative workload, improve lead response and follow-up, strengthen team execution, and make faster decisions using real business data. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for identifying where AI can create immediate leverage without sacrificing hospitality, authenticity, or the human relationships that drive the venue business.
Presentation Takeaways:
Running leaner: Identify repetitive administrative and operational work that AI can automate, simplify, or eliminate.
Selling faster: Use AI to improve lead response, personalize follow-up, strengthen proposals, and help sales teams move prospects toward a decision.
Making better decisions: Turn CRM, marketing, financial, and operational data into useful insights instead of relying solely on instinct or incomplete reports.
Building an AI-enabled team: Equip employees with practical tools and clear guardrails so AI increases capacity rather than creating confusion.
Knowing what not to automate: Preserve the personal connection, judgment, and hospitality that clients expect while using technology behind the scenes.
Starting practically: Develop a prioritized roadmap for introducing AI into a venue operation without a major technology investment or complete systems overhaul.
Tools and their application! Of course!