“A Special Thank You for Your Outstanding Work Dear Roza! Your personal dedication to ensuring a reliable, user-friendly, and feature-rich platform was evident throughout the event. We particularly commend your responsiveness, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence, which ensured that our participants could fully leverage the app’s capabilities for productive discussions and collaborations.”
Nine years behind international conferences
For nine years, I supported large international conferences by designing the digital infrastructure that enabled them to run: bringing virtual and in-person audiences together, keeping people engaged during sessions and making it easy to find information and connect.
An event is a short-lived business
In parallel, I helped build and run a company, which taught me that an event is really a short-lived business, with tickets to sell, sponsors to win, processes to run and a creative spark to keep it alive.
I understand the environment you work in
I had the opportunity to work alongside exceptional event managers at organisations such as the IAEA, European Commission and CTBTO. I saw how they planned, how teams and stakeholders worked together, where processes became difficult and the challenges that surfaced when an event came under pressure.
I wasn't just watching from the sidelines. I was there to solve problems, support the teams and help make their events work better. That experience gave me a deep understanding of the culture and working style of such organisations: their standards, their way of working and the importance of getting things right in a complex institutional environment.
A conference has many of the same challenges as a business: you need to attract and engage an audience, secure partners and sponsors, manage suppliers and budgets, build reliable processes, solve problems quickly and keep a team moving towards one goal. And unlike a business, an event doesn't get a second chance. The doors open on a specific day, at a specific time, and everything has to work. My experience building a company gives me that operational and entrepreneurial perspective alongside my years in event technology.
