Executive dinner provider for B2B

Executive dinners that book meetings.
Not just a table.

ConvergeX Connections runs invite-only CxO dinners that put genuinely senior buyers around one table, host the conversation, and turn the evening into booked meetings for your sales team. Across North America, EMEA and APAC.

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Trusted by marketing teams at Vimeo, Wolters Kluwer and other enterprise technology brands

An intimate executive dinner table set for senior leaders in a private dining room at Aqua in New York — A ConvergeX executive dinner, Aqua, New York

Empowering top enterprise brands with executive events

The format, defined

What is a CxO dinner?

Group size8 to 15 senior leaders
FormatInvite-only, no pitch, peer-led conversation
SettingA private dining room over a shared meal
Ground ruleOff the record, under the Chatham House Rule
GoalBooked meetings and pipeline, not attendance numbers

A CxO dinner is a private, invitation-only dinner that brings a small group of senior executives, usually 8 to 15 C-suite and VP-level leaders, together around one business challenge over a meal. There is no stage and no pitch. The host facilitates a candid, off-the-record peer conversation rather than presenting, and the goal is trusted relationships and pipeline, not a sales presentation.

CxO is shorthand for chief-level executives, where the "x" stands in for any C-suite title such as CEO, CIO, CISO, CMO or CFO.

Why most dinners fall flat

A nice dinner is easy. A dinner that books meetings is not.

Plenty of vendors can book a restaurant and send some invitations. What you get is a pleasant evening, a large bill, and a thread of follow-ups that quietly goes cold. The meal was never the point. Booked meetings with the right people are. We engineer the whole dinner around that single outcome, from who walks through the door to what happens in the 90 days after the plates are cleared.

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Our guarantee

No booked meetings? We re-run the dinner. On us.

We are one of the only executive dinner providers that guarantees post-event meetings on every dinner we deliver. If we do not, we run it again. Our pricing is built on that promise, which means our incentive is the same as yours: a room that turns into revenue.

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Why our dinners work

Three phases. Most providers stop at the meal.

The dinner itself is only the middle. The value sits in the bookends, and we run all three.

Curation

The right room is everything. We map your target accounts and personally recruit a table of genuinely senior buyers who match your ICP, so the people around the table are worth your sales team's time.

Conversation

A skilled host runs a candid, off-the-record discussion on one real challenge your buyers care about. No pitch, no panel theatre. Just a conversation senior leaders actually want to be part of.

Continuation

This is where the deals happen. We capture what was said, hand your team warm context on every guest, and drive the post-event follow-up that turns a good evening into booked meetings.

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How it compares

CxO dinner vs the other B2B formats

Each format serves a different objective. An executive dinner sits at the high-value end of enterprise account acquisition: fewer people, higher seniority, and a focus on building real relationships with the accounts you most want to win.

	CxO dinner	Virtual roundtable	Webinar / trade show
Group size	8 to 15	6 to 8	Hundreds to thousands
Typical seniority	C-suite and VP	Senior leaders	Mixed and self-selected
Setting	In person, over a meal	Remote, moderated	One-to-many broadcast
Best for	Deepening your priority accounts	Opening relationships across regions	Broad awareness and reach
Primary objective	Trusted relationships and pipeline	Pipeline across multiple regions	Volume and visibility

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The audience

Who we put around the table

We fill the table with genuinely senior buyers matched to your target accounts. On a single dinner that can mean C-suite and VP-level leaders across the exact functions you sell to.

CIO & CTO
CISO
Heads of IT & Infrastructure
VP Engineering
Heads of L&D
Enablement leaders
CX leaders
Digital experience
Operations

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Our process

How your dinner comes together

A clear, five-step path from your account list to booked meetings.

Understand your audience

We learn your ICP, your priority accounts and the challenge your buyers actually lose sleep over.

Curate the guest list

Account-based outreach across phone, LinkedIn and email recruits a table of the right senior people.

Venue and menu

We handle the private room, the menu and every logistic, so the evening feels effortless and premium.

Host and moderate

A skilled moderator runs a candid, no-pitch conversation that keeps every guest engaged.

Turn it into meetings

We hand your team warm context on every guest and drive the follow-up that books meetings.

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Case study

Vimeo's executive dinner in New York

We hosted Vimeo's executive dinner in New York, bringing together C-suite and senior leaders across IT, learning and development, enablement, production and digital experience for a focused conversation on mastering enterprise L&D through the power of video. The evening ran over fine dining at the elegant Aqua New York.

Hosted in partnership with the Vimeo team, including Chelsea Gehring and Rob Cocks.

From one dinner in New York

Executives at the table15

Post-event meetings booked7+

Nearly half the room turned into a booked follow-up meeting, from a single evening.

"The dinner event was a resounding success. The caliber of attendees was incredibly high, so much so that our CEO almost made an appearance. We have worked with many vendors for these dinners, and this was by far the best one."

Marissa, Demand Generation, Vimeo

Host a dinner like this

8–15Seats per dinner
3–5XTypical return
3Regions: NAMER, EMEA, APAC
100%Meetings guaranteed

What clients say

Marketing leaders on working with us

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Their virtual roundtables and CxO dinners are built around genuine peer exchange, which means your target accounts show up engaged, and you leave with the kind of account intelligence that moves an opportunity forward.

Alice de Courcy

Fractional CMO

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ConvergeX consistently connects us with the senior decision-makers we most want in the room. The quality of the audience is what sets them apart.

Hayley Doel

Global Marketing Manager, Wolters Kluwer

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The curation is the difference. Every seat is a person we actually wanted to meet, and the follow-up turns those conversations into real pipeline.

Nick Bennett

Field Marketing & ABM, Reachdesk

Executive dinner FAQs

What is a CxO dinner?

A CxO dinner is a private, invitation-only dinner that brings a small group of senior executives, usually 8 to 15 C-suite and VP-level leaders, together around one business challenge over a meal. There is no stage and no pitch. The host facilitates a candid, off-the-record peer conversation, and the goal is trusted relationships and pipeline rather than a sales presentation.

What is the ideal group size?

Eight to fifteen guests. That is small enough for everyone to speak and a real conversation to form, and large enough to justify the evening and create a genuine peer group. Below eight can feel thin, and above fifteen it starts to behave like a panel rather than a dinner.

How do you get senior executives to attend?

Relevance and curation, not volume. We map your target accounts, then use our network and high-touch, multi-channel outreach across phone, LinkedIn and email tailored to each person. A genuinely senior leader says yes when the topic, the table and the host are worth their evening, so we engineer all three before a single invitation goes out.

How much does a CxO dinner cost?

It depends on the seniority of the room, the city and venue, and the group size. ConvergeX works on a model most providers avoid: we guarantee post-event meetings, and if we do not deliver them we re-run the dinner. The larger your average enterprise deal size, the more the format returns. Try our B2B event ROI calculator for a rough estimate.

CxO dinner or executive roundtable: which should I run?

Both are small, invite-only, peer-led formats. A CxO dinner adds a shared meal, which builds trust faster and suits your highest-value target accounts. An executive roundtable is often slightly larger and works well in-person or virtually for opening relationships across regions. Many programmes run both.

How do you measure the ROI of an executive dinner?

Treat it as an enterprise account acquisition channel, not an attendance metric. Track pipeline influenced, the target accounts engaged and progressed, and deal velocity for attendees versus comparable non-attendees. Agree those measures before the dinner and connect attendee data to your CRM so the evening is tied to revenue.

What is the Chatham House Rule?

The Chatham House Rule means participants are free to use the information shared, but may not reveal who said it or which organisation they represent. It is what lets senior leaders speak candidly about real challenges instead of giving sanitised, on-record answers, which is exactly why it suits an executive dinner.

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