Las Vegas is the trade show capital of the world, and the city where a working corporate magician either earns the booking in measurable traffic or goes home. Scott has worked the Vegas circuit for years: John Deere at JDUG, network security industry trade shows, hospitality suites at the Bellagio. Based in Kansas City, available throughout Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas hosts more trade shows than any other city on the planet: CES, NAB, MAGIC, JDUG, the RSA Conference, Black Hat, HIMSS in some years, and hundreds of industry-specific expos that fill the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Mandalay Bay, the Sands, the Venetian, the Bellagio, Caesars Forum, and Wynn Las Vegas throughout the calendar year. Every one of those floors is a brutal attention-economy environment: thousands of exhibitors competing for prospects who have been walked off their feet by 2pm and are ready to check out mentally by 3pm.
Scott's Vegas work has been concentrated in three scenarios. First, trade show booth activation for B2B exhibitors where the sales cycle is long and every qualified conversation has real dollar value. Network security industry shows are a strong example: booths packed into McCormick-sized halls, buyers walking past dozens of vendors with identical-sounding pitches. A trained close-up magician working the aisle stops the right buyers, warms them for the sales team, and turns aisle traffic into business card follow-ups.
Second, hospitality suite and VIP event entertainment during trade show weeks. When John Deere hosted JDUG (John Deere User Group) work at the Bellagio, Scott was flown out and put up on property to work the private client events during trade show week: the suites, dinners, and private receptions where trade show relationships actually become deals. The Vegas hospitality-suite circuit is where the most valuable work happens during industry weeks, and it's a different skill than booth-floor work. It's slower, more conversational, and built around giving the sales team permission to work a room that feels social rather than transactional.
Third, corporate event stage and keynote work for Vegas-hosted leadership offsites, sales kickoffs, and industry conferences. The kind of event where a company takes over a Vegas hotel ballroom for three days and the opening night entertainment or the closing night keynote lands with a working magician rather than the usual hotel comedian.
The common thread across all three is that Vegas is unforgiving. A performer who is fine at a small Midwestern conference falls apart on a Las Vegas trade show floor because the expectations (from exhibitors, from executives, from the prospects themselves) are calibrated to the biggest and best in the industry. Scott's Vegas work has held up in that environment for years, which is why the bookings continue.
Every routine centers on volunteers from the audience. The selection rotates based on the room, the runtime, and what will land hardest with the crowd in front of Scott. None of these are demonstrations of skill. They are designed to fool people, and to give the room a shared moment they keep talking about after the night ends.
Four volunteers come up. One envelope holds a hundred-dollar bill. One by one, three are eliminated game-show style. The last volunteer picks: switch or stay. They lose. Scott wins. Nobody knows how. The volunteer goes home with a consolation prize and a story.
A volunteer signs a card. It vanishes. It reappears, frozen inside a solid block of ice that has been sitting in plain view the entire time.
The whole audience shouts out numbers, added together on someone's phone. The total matches a prediction unrolled across the stage, four feet long. Flipped upside down, the digits spell out the company name, the guest of honor, or whatever the night is celebrating.
A volunteer scrambles a cube themselves. Scott solves it in three seconds behind his back. Then does it again. This time, halfway through, the second cube vanishes.
The event planner sends a photo of the CEO or guest of honor ahead of time. On stage, they sign it, watch it get ripped up, and watch it come back together with the signature intact on the restored piece.
Two volunteers, hands locked into a Victorian-looking contraption. The fun is in their faces, not the gag.
Other routines rotate in: a signed paperback page that tears itself out and reappears in Scott's pocket; a drink-mixing trick where everything pours together and separates back; a jelly-bean prediction strong enough to fool other working magicians. The final running order, along with any custom touches like the photo or the prediction, gets settled on a pre-event call.
Close-up magic in and around your booth during trade show hours: stopping aisle walkers, warming prospects for your sales team, and closing routines with a clean handoff. Half-day, full-day, or multi-day. The highest-ROI format for most B2B exhibitors. More on trade show work →
Close-up magic at private client dinners, hospitality suites, and VIP receptions during trade show weeks. Bellagio-level work; Scott has done this format for John Deere at JDUG and for other Fortune 500 clients hosting private Vegas events during industry weeks.
Stage shows and keynote speaking for corporate events held in Vegas: sales kickoffs, leadership offsites, awards evenings, and industry conferences. More on corporate stage work →
Every engagement begins with a conversation. You tell Scott about the evening: the audience, the tone, the outcome you're trying to land. What reference material the room will find funny. Whether there's a retiring executive whose thirty-year tenure deserves a callback. A product launch you want written into the closing illusion. A sales number the CFO wants celebrated.
Those details get worked into the show before the night arrives. Most of the job happens before Scott walks on stage.
What the venue needs to provide. Very little. A defined performance area and an outlet within fifty feet of the stage. Scott brings his own props, his own lighting where needed, and a full professional wireless microphone and PA system. A venue mic is optional, never required. His PA is also available for the client's use during the evening if you want it for music, announcements, or another speaker. He arrives early, works the room before the show, and leaves you free to focus on the hundred other things a corporate event has running.
Audience range. Twenty people in a boardroom, a thousand in a hotel ballroom, or any number in between. For very large rooms, confidence monitors or a house camera feed are standard, and most venues that size already run them.
Vegas engagements are custom-quoted based on format (booth, hospitality suite, stage, or combined), duration, show-week timing, and travel. Travel, lodging, and per-diem itemized separately. Proposal within 24 hours of a short conversation.
Personal reply within twenty-four hours of inquiry, followed by a proposal. Holds are released in the order received.
Final figures depend on format, audience, travel, and custom content.
Scott also performs for adult private parties and milestone birthdays and children's birthdays. Different formats, same standard.
Scott is based in Kansas City and flies in for Las Vegas engagements. Travel, lodging at the show hotel (or a comparable property if you prefer), and per-diem are itemized separately in the proposal. For multi-day shows, the all-in cost is typically meaningfully lower than hiring a Vegas-local performer at comparable quality tier.
The Bellagio (John Deere JDUG private events), various hotels and convention centers tied to network security industry shows, and corporate events at Vegas-strip properties. For a specific venue, reach out. Scott has usually either worked it, worked the same convention there for a different client, or has contacts on property who make set-up simpler.
This is one of the most common bookings. The booth floor activation during show hours, the hospitality suite entertainment the same evening, and potentially a closing dinner or after-party. The advantage: prospects who met Scott at the booth during the day get a second touch in the suite, which is when real pipeline relationships get built.
Booth work: any size, though Scott is most effective at 10×20 and larger where there's room to gather a small crowd without blocking aisles. Stage work: 30 to 2,000 attendees. Scott has performed for audiences at every size in this range.
Vegas dates book out earliest. Major shows like CES, RSA, and HIMSS are typically booked 6-9 months ahead. For smaller industry shows, 3-4 months ahead is usually sufficient. Last-minute inquiries are always worth a call. Cancellations happen, and Scott occasionally has a gap in the calendar.
Yes. This is what separates a corporate magician from a generic street performer. Before the show, Scott will take a prep call with your sales and marketing leads to understand your product, your positioning, and your target prospect. Specific routines get customized so the closing line of each short routine ties into your product's key benefit or your conference-week messaging.
