The Sacramento Metro Chamber held their 121st Annual Dinner & Business Awards at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento on January 29. It is the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s longest running event. The celebration included distinguished honors and awards including Sacramentan of the Year, Businessman and Businesswoman of the Year and the Business Hall of Fame Awards.

Local executives and professionals from the commercial real estate and AEC industries enjoyed a pre-opening sneak peak of the new RailBridge Cellars & Company in the historic Elks Tower at the RECON Nexus Mixer on January 29.

Blue Heart International held their 2nd Annual Snowflake Ball on Jan. 23, at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Guests enjoyed great food, drinks, a local celebrity lip sync, and live auction by David Sobon. 

The 23rd Annual CASA Crab Feed was held on January 16. Guests brought their boots, chaps and cowboy hats and joined in supporting Sacramento’s foster youth at the “Wild West” themed event. 

A sold-out audience of approximately 700 business and community leaders attended the 2016 State of Downtown breakfast on January 12, 2016 at the Memorial Auditorium. 

BIA Northstate Building Industry Association held their annual Installation of Officers Banquet January 15 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento. The event was held to honor special award recipients and to witness the 2016 Board of Director members taking their oath of office. 

The Crocker Ball, was held December 5. The black-tie fundraiser gathered over 400 philanthropists and community leaders from Sacramento, San Francisco, and the Napa Valley. Funds raised from the Crocker Ball support exhibitions and education programs that serve more than 250,000 people each year. For more than five decades, the Ball has helped the Museum connect people with art, ideas, each other, and the world around them.

Region Rising, a collaborative conference designed to inspire thinking, was held Nov. 20 at the Sacramento Convention Center. 

The Sacramento Metro Chamber, NextEd and the Northern California World Trade Center joined forces to kick off the annual holiday season on Dec.1 at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria. The mixer featured delicious dishes and seasonal spirits from Metro Chamber member caterers, restaurants and wineries and breweries.

Local executives and professionals recently hosted the Inaugural “Charity Bike Battle” event on November 13 at the LAB Fitness Studio in Folsom as a benefit for Leukemia Lymphoma Society of Sacramento and Boys and Girls Club of Sacramento. The participants raised more than $5000 while burning thousands of calories.