Here's how you can switch to a career in Conference Organization from a different field.

There are several areas of expertise that are required to put a great conference together. Leverage your area of expertise and find where you fit the best. Volunteering with a professional association on their planning committee is a great way to get your foot in the door and learn the ropes. Conference planning is a full year endeavor and requires staff to recruit and sell to exhibitors, planning education sessions and recruit speakers, organize logistics including exhibitor and attendee registration, speaker rooms, and exhibit hall set up as well as customer service. Network within your own industry and join and engage with relevant associations.

Switching to a career in conference organization can be a great move! Leverage your existing skills in project management and communication, and try to gain some hands-on experience through volunteering or internships. Taking a few courses in event management can also give you a boost. Don’t forget to network with industry professionals and join relevant associations to help you find job opportunities and get your foot in the door.

Se você esta pensando em mudar de carreira ou ate mesmo, potencializar alguma tarefa que você já desenvolve dentro da organiza??o, como por exemplo: organizar reuni?es e eventos. Ressalto que a organiza??o de Conferências será a op??o mais assertiva, principalmente se você tem uma boa comunica??o , é organizado e proativo.

Switching careers to conference organisation can be a rewarding move, especially if you take pride in being organised. If you are considering the transition it helps to ensure you have some skills such as Communication: this skill is essential for coordinating with vendors, speakers, and attendees. Practice clear and concise communication in both written and verbal forms. Budgeting: Understand how to create and manage budgets for events. This includes negotiating with vendors, forecasting costs, and ensuring that events stay within financial constraints. Marketing and Promotion: Familiarise yourself with marketing techniques to promote events. This could involve social media marketing, email campaigns, and creating promotional materials.

Conference and forum organization has many aspects : marketing et conveying the right messages, content that is beneficial to the target, networking opportunities for the participants etc... Keep also in mind that conference and forums are part of what we call MICE (meeting, incentives conferences and exhibitions) which has witnessed a shift towards bleisure in recent years. So people are here to work but they are here to enjoy themselves. Organising conference that are boring no matter how relevant the content may be is not the right thing to do.

Networking is probably one of the most important aspects in conference orgnisation. You have to plan your event so that you allow time and space for people to meet discuss face-to-face, exchange. With the rise of online meeting platforms conferences are increasingly becoming the place where people meet face-to-face : most of the time during the year they do that online...

Ter uma boa rede de contatos é sem duvidas um passo muito importante nesse trabalho. Organizar uma conferência com antecedência, ou seja, ter um planejamento adequado, de tempo e espa?o , dará aos participantes a possibilidade de se conectarem uns com os outros, trocar experiencias e engajamento nos assuntos a serem abordados, antes da conferencia ou na pausa para um café e ate mesmo no pós conferência, com troca de e-mails e etc.

An event is not just about bringing people together in one place. It has a business model: you have to understand it. Understand who you're serving and whag they're trying to achieve is crutial to organize a successful event. Who's sponsoring ? What message they are trying to convey and to what target in terms of audience ? That'll help you put numbers on your event and budget for it.