Ellen Taurich Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

•Agenda Creation & Content Development: Conduct detailed desk research and collaborate with industry experts to identify key industry trends, challenges, and opportunities, and use this information to create conference agendas that are relevant and engaging for the audience. •Speaker and Delegate Management: Identify, invite, and secure high-profile speakers, thought leaders, and industry professionals to deliver impactful presentations. Manage all aspects of speaker coordination.•Event Production & Project Management: Lead the end-to-end project management of event production, from conceptualization to final execution. This includes managing and tracking budgets, negotiating contracts with venues and external suppliers, and overseeing the production of event collateral. •Vendor & Supplier Coordination: Manage all external hires, including AV and technical teams, catering, security, transportation, and other service providers. I am responsible for negotiating contracts, securing the best rates, and maintaining strong relationships with vendors to ensure the smooth running of all conference-related activities.•Venue & Logistics Management: Oversee the coordination and logistics of conference venues, ensuring that all event spaces are optimized for different sessions, exhibitions, and networking opportunities. •Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including the Sales Team, Events Team, and Marketing Team, to ensure that all aspects of the conference are aligned with business objectives.•Event Marketing & Promotion: Play a key role in the event marketing strategy, collaborating with the marketing team to create promotional materials, design email campaigns, and manage social media outreach. •On-the-Day Event Coordination: Oversee the on-site event execution, ensuring that all event elements come together smoothly, managing logistics, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring high levels of client and delegate satisfaction.

London, England, United Kingdom

•Planned and organised events including private functions, parties and nightlife events for clients. I am involved with all events from start to finish and manage all aspects. •Duties included conducting market research, target audience analysis, creating a social media campaign, event design, identifying market trends, budget management, contract creation and negotiation with staff, venues, and external suppliers, web design and online platform building.•Hired and managed all staff, conducting safety assessments, venue coordination, on-the-day management and logistics, and event set-up and strike. •Processed invoices and conduct post-event analysis. Additionally, conduct post- event debrief sessions with staff. •The goal of freelancing was to expand my experience as an Events Manager and sharpen my skills to be fluid on all kinds of events, not just corporate events. After doing this I decided to focus on Corporate events.

London, England, United Kingdom

•The project objectives were to conduct a thorough analysis of the One Cartridge Place venue space, determine which events can be held in the space and the profitability of these events.

•Duties included planning and organising a variety of corporate events including conferences, training days, meetings, webinars, and seminars. I coordinated and assisted on in-person, hybrid and virtual events held on Zoom, both in London and across the UK. •I was involved with all aspects of event organisation, including delegate and speaker management, venue booking and supplier management. •I additionally worked in event content production for our webinars and several training days. This included carrying out market research on a topic, writing an event programme, and sourcing senior industry speakers and partners. •Worked directly with contracted venues on room set-up, audio-visual requirements and food minimums.•Worked with venues to ensure correct set up, liased and booked couriers, and coordinated both event staff and delegates on event days. •Created and managed online event platforms including zoom, vamoose, and swapcard. •Coordinated with external suppliers to negotiate competitive prices and ensure deadlines were met.•Processed invoices and led debrief meetings post event, discussing the budget, execution and client satisfaction.

London, England, United Kingdom

Duties included planning and organising a variety of corporate events including breakfast briefings, meetings, expos, conferences and award shows. I worked with both tech and finance brands across the company.I coordinated events of up to 1,300 delegates in a variety of different environments. I worked on and managed virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. While working on events I liaised in person and virtually between event staff, delegates, sponsors, suppliers and external hires in order to successfully execute events.I updated event websites and virtual platforms with event information sent information emails to delegates, speakers and sponsors, and invited senior members of staff to events.Created and updated table plans for award shows, and liaised with graphic designers to create event programmes, event collateral, table plans, sponsor branding and event wraps.I additionally coordinated with event sponsors to create event collateral, and create other branding opportunities such as goodie bags, branded cocktail bars, exposition stands and entertainment.I worked on a big variety of events and performed tasks such as speaker management, sponsor stand coordination, checking in delegates, liaising with vendors and venue staff, and award show coordination.

London, England, United Kingdom

I worked as a Technical Stage Manager for the production Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best, at the Space Theatre. During this production I helped to set up lights, sound and video, and ran all technical elements during each performance.

London, United Kingdom

Part-time work. Duties include re-designing the theatre website, setting up for events, organization of the theatre space, supervising students, and working as front-of-house staff on events.

Los Angeles, California, United States

During the pandemic, I got involved with Core as a remote volunteer to help onboard volunteers to work on covid-19 test sites across America. I quickly became involved with the company, and within a few weeks, moved on to a management position, where I was responsible for hiring 200+ site workers, managing a volunteer team of 30+ people, liaising between national and Los Angeles based site managers, customers, staff and volunteers and working on a city and national scale to create a working infrastructure and core protocols among many other duties. As this branch of the company was formed in response to the pandemic, I was able to help build the branch rapidly from the ground up, and create a long lasting, workable infrastructure that could be replicated across the United States as we set up more sites.Key Duties:Managing a volunteer team of 30+ personnelManaging a hiring team of 4 hiring 200+ site workersLiaising between USA and Los Angeles based site managers customers, staff and volunteers.Working on a city and national scale to create a working infrastructure and core protocols among many other duties.As this branch of the company was formed in response to the pandemic, I was able to help build the branch rapidly from the ground up, and create a long lasting, workable infrastructure that could be replicated across the United States as we set up more sites.

London, United Kingdom

Stage managed for the play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, at The Space Theatre in London, United Kingdom. Duties included Stage Managing, creating paperwork, putting the sound design into Qlab, and running lights, sound, and video during performances.

London

I was the Technical Stage Manager for the play Different Sand/Willow at the Bunker Theatre in London, United Kingdom. Duties included Stage Managing, creating paperwork, putting the sound design into Qlab, and running lights, sound, and video during performances.

Los Angeles

Duties included imaging computers, using the program Shotgun, organizing office spaces and assisting with installations at the Disneyland park.

First Class Honours Bachelor'S Degree, Events Management

Stage Management

High School Diploma