Skills for the future:

• Event management and coordination of a two-day European symposium
• Hotel sourcing, negotiating preferential rates, site visits and staffing welcome / information desks for duration of symposium
• Delegate travel arrangements for assisted places
• 200 delegates (from EU Countries) including UK ministers and ASC officials
• Management of delegate registration and hotel booking service
• Liaison with airport and train station and hosting welcome desks for delegate arrivals
• Design and production of website, invitations, letterheads, badges and delegate packs
• Sourcing, negotiating and managing entertainment options for symposium
• Stage choreography and show schedule
• Speaker liaison and slide production
• Full production and audio-visual management including language interpretation and interpreters
• Design and production of stage set
• Catering coordination and management (sourcing local produce for locally themed lunches and dinner), including food tasting
• Sourcing gifts for delegates
• Organising a private dinner for the ASC working group
• Coordinating and providing equipment for a film show at one of the venues
• Full breakout session management (10 breakout sessions) including all support equipment
• Exhibition management
• Working with Leeds City Council to integrate the drinks reception (Art Gallery) and dinner (Town Hall) into the official switch on of the Christmas lights
• Collecting and analysing information, working towards a carbon neutral event. Including delegate and organisers travel, catering and energy usage, in conjunction with Climate Care