About the Team
The Story of Drive Festival
Drive Festival’s inaugural event took place September 10-12, 2021, with over 17,000 people attending! As a result, we were the largest automotive event in Canada in 2021.
Our attendees and exhibitors loved the new dynamic and interactive approach of Drive Festival, never seen at this scale in Canada. Seeing the world’s rarest and most exciting cars driven on our Dream Car Speed Run and experiencing manufacturer test drives on one of our three test tracks. Over 2,500 test drives happened during our inaugural weekend!
While Drive Festival’s inaugural launch was terrific, 2022 was bigger and better! We are working on more manufacturers, cars and interactive experiences for our third-year event.
Thank you to our supporters as we look forward to this September!
The Drive Festival Team
The Story of Drive Festival
Drive Festival’s inaugural event took place September 10-12, 2021, with over 17,000 people attending! As a result, we were the largest automotive event in Canada in 2021.
Our attendees and exhibitors loved the new dynamic and interactive approach of Drive Festival, never seen at this scale in Canada. Seeing the world’s rarest and most exciting cars driven on our Dream Car Speed Run and experiencing manufacturer test drives on one of our three test tracks. Over 2,500 test drives happened during our inaugural weekend!
While Drive Festival’s inaugural launch was terrific, we are excited to produce a bigger and better version in 2022. We are working on more manufacturers, cars and interactive experiences for this second-year event.
Thank you to our supporters as we look forward to this September!
The Drive Festival Team
About National Event Management
Exclusively in the Event Business since 1983, National Event Management (NEM) based in Markham, Ontario has created and produced over 500 consumer events. NEM currently produces 37 events per year, hosting over 4,000 exhibitors and over 200,000 attendees annually in markets across North America. National Event has created and produced more successful and enduring consumer events than any other company in North America over the last 20 years. www.nationalevent.com

Adam Ruppel
CO-FOUNDER, EVENT MANAGER
Fred Cox
CO-FOUNDER, CEO

