Case Study: InnovateLA achieves a scalable, high-quality festival website and better event discovery with NationBuilder

Powering the biggest festival for innovators in Los Angeles

InnovateLA is a countywide festival celebrating entrepreneurship and creativity that runs dozens of events across Los Angeles (over 100 events and 25,000 attendees last year). Their challenge was to present a high‑quality, mobile‑ready website that could sell featured placements and sponsorships, help attendees find and schedule events by category and location, and scale to support heavy event management without ongoing technical support. NationBuilder (via the NationBuilder Mega‑Theme and agency implementation) was chosen to power their digital infrastructure.

Using NationBuilder, the team delivered a polished, responsive site in two weeks that includes category filters, an event map, partner event submission with approval workflows, and simple tag‑based controls for featured placements. The NationBuilder‑based solution made the site easily editable and scalable without developer help, saved the InnovateLA staff countless hours of manual entry, enabled sponsorship and featured‑event sales, and supported the festival’s 100+ events and large attendee base.

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