About me
Experienced Events, Advertising & Content Specalist; with a background in curating line-ups for music festivals and talks across the UK.
Projects
- Prohibition Partners LIVE 2020When the devastating COVID19 outbreak hit the world, many events had to quickly change tact to pivot towards a virtual offering. We were brought in by Prohibition Partners LIVE to transform their London Southbank Centre event into an all singing, all dancing (not literally) online conference for 4,000 delegates. Across 5 virtual stages, we worked tirelessly to find, recruit & onboard over 150 CEO level business speakers to sit across the 60 panel sessions, building systems and processes on the
- Talks Programme x Neverworld Festival 2019For the 2nd year, I was invited to pull together a 4-hour programme of unique speakers & talks to speak in the morning on the festivals' woodland stage. The brief was to focus on what it means to Never Grow Old; never stop learning, growing discovering, being creative. Topics included talks on Lucid Dreaming, The Future of Conservation, Time Perception & Space.
- Nescafe Azera x Time Out MagazineWhilst recently freelancing for Bearded Kitten, I worked with the BK team to pull together an exciting events programme which was in keeping with the Nescafe Azera campaign tagline 'Stay Curious'. The event took place in July at the Old Truman Brewery. The programme featured unique, quirky performers and classes including Neon Life Drawing, BoxingYoga and a Breathwork Class amongst many, many others across a packed 4-day schedule of events.
- Funzing Talks seriesA selection of unique, inspirational talks - programmed across the UK. I was the Events & Content Director for all Funzing Talks between Feb 2017 - Feb 2019, and in that time have overseen the delivery of 2,114 self produced events in 12 different cities including London, Bristol, Manchester and Sheffield. Speakers I've worked with range from Celebrities and Psychologists, right through to high profile Scientists and former Mi5 agents. Highlights were Akala at Shoreditch Town Hall, Sir Ranulph
- LemonfestSince 2009, I have been curating and running a Devon based one-day music festival called Lemonfest. As one of the organisers, my main responsibilities are: - Artist Booking - Coordinating and overseeing the entire festival entertainment schedule - Stage Management & Artist Liason on the day - Management of all festival Social Media and Marketing - Managing the event production schedule - Working alongside production companies to ensure the successful delivery of the event
- The Bloody Brunch ClubSince January 2015, I have been running a Brunch event in Hackney for around 75-100 people. The event is a combination of hearty food, great music, and a good old fashioned knees up - with some fantastic cocktails to boot. More recently, we have started working with Pernod Ricard / Absolut Vodka on a Sponsorship deal for the series. This is developing quickly, and we hope to use this partnership to take the event to the next level creatively.
Work history
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Event LeadProhibition Partners
London, United KingdomFreelance
Creating & delivering company wide digital event strategy for 2020/2021
Transforming a 2,000 delegate live conference into a 4-day virtual event
Leading on all speaker recruiting; inc outreach & onboarding a programme of 160+ speakers
Across 2 x conferences, creating a 70+ panel event programme from scratch
Reporting to company MD - leading entire event P&L and budget (circa £70k)
Roadmapping entire event cycle inc hires, budgets, revenue reporting, marketing & PR
Leading on all Marketing content strategy across a succinct timeline of deliverables
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Events & Content DirectorFunzing
London, United KingdomFull Time
Alongside the Funzing company Co-Founders and Events Team - leading the programming, content curation and overall strategy of the Funzing Talks series of events across the UK.
At present we manage 100+ talks each month across cities such as London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool; with our schedule still growing in both profile and numbers. These talks include partnerships with Academy Events Group, Red Bull, Winterville and others.
Previous and current speakers include Sir Rannulph Fiennes, Will Young, Akala, Ruby Wax, Roni Size plus many, many more across a database of around 200 experts & interesting personalities. See less
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Skills
- Advertising
- Events
- Client Management
- Excel
- Office
- Powerpoint
- Word
- Project Management and Budget Allocation
- Booking
- Artist Booking
- Proposal Writing
- Artist Liaison
- Category Management
- Creative Briefs
- Keynote Powerpoint