Writing (Author of 3 published novels translated in 4 languages)
Dedicated community professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
As part of Kiwi.com sponsorship agreement for ML Prague 2022, I was the person helping with the organization of the event. The duties included:
- Designing a marketing plan, providing content for all social media and newsletter communication
- Providing content for all magazines and communities covering the event
- Making sure all sponsors are properly represented (live tweeting from the event, showcasing their booths, promoting their agenda)
- Creating a shortlist of potential speakers for ML Prague
- Approaching the speakers and being their point of contact throughout their whole stay in Prague
- Organizing the party, after party, hold an opening speech as co-organizer
Providing content exclusively for the "90 minutes CIO Insights": a web series of events for the Aurora Live Community members (over 5000 European CxOs)
Duties include:
- Research and discover the most relevant current topics in the CIO's work
- Write cognitive agenda
- Research the most competent speakers to cover the sessions
- Approach and build a connection with speakers, preparing them to speak for the episodes.
- Gain a high-level understanding of any given market
- Research and record competitive events
- Research content of conference programme
- Write cogent, marketable conference programme based on research
- Identify, approach and confirm suitable speakers
- Run conferences on site and look after conference speakers as necessary
- Identify the target audience for a given conference idea and the most marketable angle on this topic
- Recruiting, training and supervising staff
- Managing budgets
- Maintaining statistical and financial records
- Planning maintenance work, events and room bookings
- Handling customer complaints and queries
- Promoting and marketing the business
- Ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation and licensing laws.
- Overseeing the development and implementation of different internship programs in Maltese companies (Unpaid internships, study visits, KA1 and KA2 projects in Malta for students, teachers and educational institutions)
- Overseeing and coordinating the program once it's up and running
- Assigning interns to various departments
- Acting as the liaison between the company and the educational institution (the student's faculty sponsor, the school's career centre director, and/or career counsellors)
- Supervising and interacting with the intern
Multitasking Abilities
Community coordinator:
- Data Day: end-to-end organization of a workshop based on my idea, with 10 selected attendees, 5 of them applied for a job at Kiwi.com on the spot.
- AI Stories: end-to-end organization of a meetup attended by 60 people, all of them subscribed to next meetup.
Content & Conference Specialist
- Building the 90 minute CIO insights from scratch, on-line event that is still successful even in post-Covid time and has been renewed for 2023 season. 6 episodes per year, with 50 attendees average.
Social Media & Speaker Management
- Tickets sold out 2 months before the event
- Successfully managing +40 speakers on site
Writing (Author of 3 published novels translated in 4 languages)
Directing (Writer and Director of a play performed in 3 festivals in Prague)
Traveling (Visited over 20 countries)