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Oslo, No

Oslo, Oslo, Norge

Oslo Business Forum hosts a yearly conference in September for 2,500 physical and 10,000+ digital attendees, focusing on empowering leaders to change the world. As part of the OBF team, I've been involved in all aspects of the company with a flexible production role. Main Responsibilities:- Commercial: Working closely with key accounts, ensuring 100% satisfaction among our partners and that all partner activities are planned and executed properly. - Event Management: Planning… Show more Oslo Business Forum hosts a yearly conference in September for 2,500 physical and 10,000+ digital attendees, focusing on empowering leaders to change the world. As part of the OBF team, I've been involved in all aspects of the company with a flexible production role. Main Responsibilities:- Commercial: Working closely with key accounts, ensuring 100% satisfaction among our partners and that all partner activities are planned and executed properly. - Event Management: Planning and executing several smaller events with 100+ participants, being responsible for manning, customer journey, and production, ensuring everything from A to Z was planned for.- Volunteer Management: Having the responsibility of 130+ volunteers during the conference period, including planning and executing training days and introduction meetings, promoting and executing recruitment of said volunteers, coordinating the production of certificates after the event, and planning and manning important responsibility areas and roles during the event.- Volunteer Management 2.0: Recruiting and leading a smaller team of students in our Leadership Program over a period of 6 months, including onboarding, training, followups, and delegation.- Entertainment Production: Being responsible for booking, recording, and promoting OBF's podcast series "OBF-Podden".- Administrative tasks: Invoicing, drafting and coordinating the signing of agreements, following up unpaid invoices, and handling smaller ad hoc tasks needed to be done administratively.- Customer Success: handling customer inquiries through email and chat, ensuring high customer satisfaction. Show less

Oslo, Norway

BIICC is a yearly Case Competition held at BI Norwegian Business School. In 2022, 12 teams worldwide attended digitally (due to Covid-19). I was hired as an Event Consultant due to my past experience to contribute in facilitating the competition.Main work responsibilities:-Administering communication with participants through email and Facebook group, distributing important information, and making sure needed information from all 12 teams was received within deadlines- Planning… Show more BIICC is a yearly Case Competition held at BI Norwegian Business School. In 2022, 12 teams worldwide attended digitally (due to Covid-19). I was hired as an Event Consultant due to my past experience to contribute in facilitating the competition.Main work responsibilities:-Administering communication with participants through email and Facebook group, distributing important information, and making sure needed information from all 12 teams was received within deadlines- Planning and executing a networking event for 100 participants at BI Norwegian Business School, inviting academically successful students to meet and network with partner companies- Planning and hosting one digital event during the week of the competition for the purpose of networking- In general, focus on project excellence from an event perspective Show less

Oslo Area, Norway

Administering approx. 100 Learning Assistants at BI - top students employed by BI to help students with various courses. Main work responsibilities: - Recruiting Learning Assistants: Reviewing applications, being the point of contact for applicants, planning and conducting the interview process, evaluating applicants.- Manning courses: Coordinatoring the work schedule of 100 Learning Assistants, ensuring that enough LAs are employed in each of the 20+ courses while… Show more Administering approx. 100 Learning Assistants at BI - top students employed by BI to help students with various courses. Main work responsibilities: - Recruiting Learning Assistants: Reviewing applications, being the point of contact for applicants, planning and conducting the interview process, evaluating applicants.- Manning courses: Coordinatoring the work schedule of 100 Learning Assistants, ensuring that enough LAs are employed in each of the 20+ courses while trying to meet as many of every single LA's requests as possible.- Marketing and Communication activities: Partaking in shooting commercial footage to promote the service, constantly creating and implementing new ideas to raise awareness of the LA service at BI. - Public Speaking: Several times planning and executing the moderator role of Kick Offs and larger meetings, speaking in front of approx. 100 employees.- Customer Service: Daily contact with Learning Assistants and students, where my main responsibility is to provide them with excellent service, regardless of what their problem is.- Project Management: Taking on responsibility for bigger projects, which required extensive planning and preparing. Show less

Oslo, Oslo, Norge

After volunteering for OBF 4 times, I worked as an intern with the title "Main Stage Support" at OBF. In fall of 2020, OBF held a hybrid conference called "The New Normal" with 200 guests and 4000 participants online. The main focus was therefore on the digital platform, naturally, ensuring that the online viewers had a great experience.Main Work Responsibilities:- On the Conference Day: Responsible for all activity on-stage. Ensuring that the speakers entered and left the stage… Show more After volunteering for OBF 4 times, I worked as an intern with the title "Main Stage Support" at OBF. In fall of 2020, OBF held a hybrid conference called "The New Normal" with 200 guests and 4000 participants online. The main focus was therefore on the digital platform, naturally, ensuring that the online viewers had a great experience.Main Work Responsibilities:- On the Conference Day: Responsible for all activity on-stage. Ensuring that the speakers entered and left the stage accordingly, and that the program was running smoothly. - Booking: Communicating with, planning the stay of, and functioning as the host for the entertainment artist set to perform on the conference.- Sales Experience: Brainstorming and contacting potential partners for the conference. Show less

Oslo, Norway

Took over the role as Project Manager halfway through the project. Within a few months we had to come up with a whole new program than what was originally planned due to covid-19. Eventually, the project was cancelled right before it began. Main Work Responsibilities:- Event Management: Creating a new program for the week of Fadderullan due to restrictions, contacting artists, communicating with technical crew, creating an event agenda, brainstorming new ideas to create a fun Buddy… Show more Took over the role as Project Manager halfway through the project. Within a few months we had to come up with a whole new program than what was originally planned due to covid-19. Eventually, the project was cancelled right before it began. Main Work Responsibilities:- Event Management: Creating a new program for the week of Fadderullan due to restrictions, contacting artists, communicating with technical crew, creating an event agenda, brainstorming new ideas to create a fun Buddy Week for the new students, while ensuring safety precautions are being followed- Leadership: Working with 7 board members and also coordinating a team of approx. 25 volunteers.- Sales Experience: Researched and contacted companies that were viewed as potential partners.- Innovation: The biggest achievement of all was creating a concert in the air with Martin Jensen at the top of Tryvann, consisting of a platform that was lifted 60 meters above the ground! Show less

Oslo, Norway

My first Leadership experience was in Inspire, which proved to be a steep learning curve. Inspire is a conference driven by students at BI for students at BI. Its purpose is to motivate, engage and inspire the students to reach a little further, try a little harder and do something they otherwise might not have dared to do. The conference was meant to last for three days, but we were only able to execute the first day due to covid-19.I take great pride in the achievements the board of… Show more My first Leadership experience was in Inspire, which proved to be a steep learning curve. Inspire is a conference driven by students at BI for students at BI. Its purpose is to motivate, engage and inspire the students to reach a little further, try a little harder and do something they otherwise might not have dared to do. The conference was meant to last for three days, but we were only able to execute the first day due to covid-19.I take great pride in the achievements the board of Inspire 2020 reached together. Main Work Responsibilities:- Leadership: Working together with and coordinating a team of 6 board members as well as 27 volunteers in the project. Had a big focus on creating social arenas where people would get to know each other better, in order to work better together. - Insight on Finances: Together with the Finance Manager we prepared and presented our budget to a committee, in order to get it approved - which we did. Getting a better understanding of finances within a project during the year proved to be a valuable experience.- Management during crisis: Communication, and how to execute the communication, proved to be key when the cancellation was a reality.Our biggest achievements:- Environmental Impact: Inspire 2020 was the first student project in Scandinavia to be Eco Lighthouse-certified!- Political impact: We created and executed a knowledge competition between University of Oslo and BI in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and Mathematics, AND together with Impact BI we established the biggest collaboration between two student units in BI Student Organization's history! Show less

Bachelor'S Degree, Creative Industries Management

Specialized in Project Management. The Bachelor Thesis, which we received the grade A for, discussed how internal communication can.

One Year Foundation Program, International Environment And Development Studies

Activities and Societies: Vice President in the Social Society Globalis for the old Noragric Department of NMBU. This One Year Study.