Building conferences

My 2 first months as the MC VP TM and the transition before have given me a LOT of new knowledge about a variety of topics, it’s quite an empowering feeling to know that this is just the start and I’m facing a challenging and exiting year ahead. One of the interesting experiences is building conferences from nothing. Sitting behind the table or on some nice grass and creating something, something that will impact the lives of the delegates and facilitators, and ofcourse not to forget the OC and agenda team.

One of the coolest experiences in my quite short agenda creation career was the Baltic Energy 2007 agenda creation. There are three people in the agenda team – Deny Lithuanian MC VP TM (originally from Slovakia), Kuba Latvian MC VP TM (originally from Poland) and me as the agenda manager. We have some kind of special synergy between us – we catch some word which one of us says and build on it, we complete the thought others have, we help to spell the English words in our own languages (yeah – somehow Estonian, Polish and Slovakian languages are with similar pronunciation of the letters), have loads of fun and manage to be effective and totally creative.

At the MC Lithuania office in Vilnius

I never imagined that conference creation can be so cool – you just start adding the bits and pieces, calculate the time, think out what is useful and necessary for the delegates. And you know what – this year I would really like to be a delegate myself, I’m just soooooo exited looking at the agenda. We did a great job in my mind as we created a theme for the conference – it’s going to be a treasure hunt, spiced with pirates and Caribbean feeling. Everything is according to the topic – session names, simulations, party themes etc.

Some challenging times are ahead as currently the faci application is open and the best ppl have to be selected, lot of communication with the OC, virtual prep of the facis is going to start in September and then in one heartbeat the pre-meeting, conference itself and post-meeting is following. If you want to become part of this experience and become a faci at the Baltic treasure hunt then click here to download the booklet and application.

Baltic co-operation rocks. I’m really looking forward to seeing you in Energy 2007 in Tartu, Estonia.

Many sunny hugs,

Kadi