Conference Manager
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About the Role
Support conference planning by liaising with partners, organizing meetings, recruiting speakers, and managing agendas for commercial viability and stakeholder engagement.
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Support Conference Director In
- Liaising with event partners, Ministry and committee members
- Organising and running committee meetings to determine conference themes, topics, session chairs, and speakers
- Conducting telephone and in-person research with stakeholders to develop programme agendas
- Joining sponsorship and exhibition sales calls and meetings with existing and potential clients
- Building an agenda that is commercially viable for both sponsorship and delegate sales
- Recruiting C-suite, regulator and government speakers to the programme faculty
- Researching and providing strategic information required to market and sell conferences to the marketing and sales functions, including:
- detailed information on the target market both in terms of sector and geographic markets
- relevant industry associations and publications
- competitive events
- Attending conferences to promote the conference, gather market intelligence, and to network with potential speakers and delegates to establish and maintain relationships pre- and post- conference
- Manage the call for papers process and session selection
Relationships
Internal: br>
Conference Director & senior managementbr>
All internal functions Commercial, Data & Digital, Marketing & PR, HR, Finance and Operations br>
Other Content Directors withing the business to share ideas, contacts and best practise
Event Partner (DM)br>
Government and NGOsbr>
Entire Energy Value Chainbr>
Senior individuals/C-suite professionals br>
Associations- Industry and Sector specificbr>
Steering Committeesbr>
International government representatives
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