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Which Event Managers can I learn from?

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Ajay Thadani

Account Director, Brandwidth Events Pvt. Ltd.

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Avneesh Gadgil

DGM- Experiential Marketing,Wizcraft Internatio...

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Bhavna Yagnik

Senior executive at Brandwidth Events.

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Shashank Gupta

Chief Dreamer and Nurturer - Brandwidth.

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Harindra Singh

Harindra Singh is the founder, and Chairman & M...

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Jaideep Singh

Chairman of Ignition Creative and the managing ...

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Malavika Banerjee

Director of Kolkata Literary Meet

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Mayur Thakkar

Client Servicing Director at Shobiz Experientia...

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Mohomed Morani

Managing Director - CINEYUG

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Rajiv Jain

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Rashi Entert...

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Ranjit Raina

CEO at Geometry Encompass

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Roshan Abbas

Roshan Abbas is an Indian radio jockey, theatre...

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Sabbas Joseph

Director of Wizcraft International Entertainmen...

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Sanjoy Roy

Managing Director of Teamwork Arts

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T. Venkat Vardhan

Founder Chairman & MD - DNA Networks

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Vijay Nair

CEO of Only Much Louder (OML)

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Yashraj Akashi

Curator & Licensee - TEDxGateway

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  • Time constraints
  • Offers certification/Degree
  • Strict Syllabus

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Through experiential learning we give aspiring Event Managers like you an opportunity to leverage the best experience of the best to solve real-world challenges.

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What questions are bothering you?

  • What competencies and educational qualifications do you think an Event Managers must have?
  • What event planning software and tools do you use predominently, if any? And what is their sole purpose ?
  • How do you keep up with industry trends and news?
  • How do you manage event promotion and the following campaigns?
  • What makes an event successful and what are the parameters to measure thst success?
  • How do you adhere to the budgets while managing an event?
  • How would you handle an event going over budget?
  • What are the key aspects to maintain a 100% event success rate?
  • What steps do you take to handle the unexpected setbacks before and during an event?
  • What are some of the post-event requisites to be looked upon thoroughly, which are usually overlooked?

What can you do on Xpert?

LEARN DIRECTLY FROM TOP Event Managers

Learn about Event Managers' early days, education and career choice, challenges, success, techniques, and opinions.

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If you're just getting into the game, you must stay abreast as to what key moves are being made by Event Managers.

ASK ALL YOUR QUESTIONS

Your dilemmas would be addressed by the Event Managers, inducing you to make the right career decisions and moves.

Who are we?

Our Mission

Making Experts Accessible to All

Xpert - is a social learning app to help you learn from the best. We are not your regular online course, but rather an experience that is beyond regular classes, lectures & assignments. We have India's top experts across each profession share their experiences, opinions, techniques & advice accumulated over the lifetime of their careers.

What is Event Management?

Event management is the construction and growth of personal or corporate events such as anniversaries, conferences, ceremonials, marriages, official parties, performances, or/and conventions. It includes considering the brand equity, identifying its target audience, concocting the event flow, and synchronizing the methodical facets in the pre-launch of the event. Lately, event management has been in the use interchangeably with the term – ‘Event Planning’. Event Management firms are often hired to organize and carry out events like weddings and casual/corporate events.

On the contrary, the bigger chunk of business lies in the events like political parties/get-togethers and sporting events and these can benefit immensely through the Event Management companies in the market. Although Event Management and Event Planning are two very closely related terms, there lies a thin line of distinction to both of them. Event Management firms, many a time, can provide event planning services, while Event Planning companies can provide with individual Event Management prospects. The jobs of both Event Managers and Planners often overlap each other.

What are the qualities of a Event Manager?

The most important part of being an Event Manager involves having people skills as a mandate. Their job profile requires constant and consistent interactions with people of various sorts such as - clients, vendors, internal teams, venue organizers and sometimes, even guests of high-profile. The other major quality that makes an Event Manager successful is that they have to be on their toes all the time and be fast paced in their multitasking. Overall, the job demands an agile working style to cope up with the tasks in hand.:

  • Flexibility
  • Curiosity
  • Inquisitiveness
  • Dedication
  • Observation

Who are the top Event Managers?

India has seen an immense growth in the Media sector over the last decade. Some of the prolific Event Management professionals are as follows - Sabbas Joseph (Wizcraft International), Roshan Abbas (Encompass), Harindra Singh (Percept Limited), Avneesh Gadgil (Wizcraft International), Ranjit Raina (Brandwidth Events), Vijay Nair (Only Much Louder), Tarun Rai (J. Walter Thompson), Sanjoy K. Roy (Teamwork Arts), Malavika Banerjee (Kolkata Literary Meet), Martin D’Costa (Seventy Event Media Group), Rajiv Jain (Rashi Entertainments), Ashish Hemrajani (BookMyShow), Viraj Jit Singh (KidZania), Yashraj Akashi (TedX), Ajit Ravi (Pegasus Events), Mirza Baig (EBlitz), Gaurav Dhall (TIC Events) and so on.

Some of the upcoming promising Event Managers consist of – Nikhil Chinappa (Submerge Music), Rishu Singh (Ennui.Bomb), Sartaj Anand (EgoMonk), Santosh Panda (Explara), Jaideep Singh (Viacom18), Peter Kerkar (Cox & Kings), etc

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    An event shouldn't be just an experiential thing, it should be an emotional thing.

    -Amit Kalantri, Founder, Wealth of Words

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    The Event Industry is growing at a rapid pace, there’s a lot of competition. Find your niche, focus on it and become the best at it.

    -Arlene Schilke, Managaing Partner, Timewise Event Management Inc.

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    As a business owner, you will find yourself in a lot of different roles. Experience is key being successful in each one.

    -Brad Lipshy, Owner, Event Solutions

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    Your face needs to be associated with service and community.

    -Amy Bates, President, Bates Events

How can you start as a Event Manager?

An escalation in the gig economy is renovating the nature of business across the world. Recruiters are experiencing financial reserves by hiring freelancers. With the growing convenience of reaching out to freelance event planners in the marketplace, there are more alternatives to work with when planning the next event. If you are a novice, you also get to know more about your work and can also improve your proficiencies. If possible, join an existing Event Management team as a learner, execute some of the tasks, join the planning process and most importantly, join the final review sessions. With such a clear view of what is implied in that profession, take up an Event Management courses online or get into an institute, and take up small events or small slices of major events that you can handle independently or with small teams.

What are the challenges of being a Event Manager?

A major challenge faced by most of the Event Managers are curbing resources with regards to the budget of the client. Keeping in mind the volatile nature of the economy, the Event Manager needs to make a cushion in the budget so as to take the monetary turbulences while approaching the vendors. At times, venues can be a difficult task to deal with because there might be a client recommendation which you are not aware of and that makes your life hard. Outdoing the competition is another setback if you do not target your audience right and post that, comes your USP which will make your venture successful irrespective of the existing competitors.

How can you learn
Event Management at Xpert?

Xpert enables you to learn from Event Managers who are at the top of their game. It is the Experiential Method of Learning that we focus on. We deliver learning via the real life challenge, failure and success stories of the geniuses who have battled their way upto the top. They share as to how challenging their first step was, what was their first failure, what happened when their best bet failed, who did they recruit initially, what was the first year of joy like, the times when they felt like giving up, the hope that made never made them loose, etc. It's their journey, techniques and opinions that we share with aspiring event managers to help them closer to their dream. We intend to equip you with all the right information directly from geniuses to help you in your journey.

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