The president and CEO of Events DC manages five of the District’s most prolific venues, including Nationals Park and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The convention center hosted Chuck Brown’s memorial service on short notice. How’d you do it?

We do many events that get planned years in advance. But this event was different because we didn’t have a traditional client like a meeting planner, and sometimes, that lack of a formal structure makes it a little more challenging. The good news is that we had done several memorial services this year, and we had familiarity with the family, so really it was a matter of someone making the decision that it was going to be at the convention center.