Senior Conference Producer | Ventures Connect | Min 4-5 yrs exp
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About the Role
Ventures Middle East seeks an ambitious Senior Conference Producer to lead research, content strategy, and speaker acquisition for B2B conferences in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The role involves developing commercially successful agendas, managing advisory boards, and mentoring junior producers.
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Responsibilities
- Lead in depth industry research to identify market trends and opportunities
- Develop commercially successful conference agendas and event concepts
- Identify, approach, and secure high profile C suite speakers and industry leaders
- Build and manage senior level advisory boards
- Take ownership of assigned event portfolios from concept to delivery
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and operations teams to achieve event objectives
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior producers
Requirements
- Minimum 4 5 years of experience in conference production
- Proven track record in developing B2B conference agendas
- Experience in speaker acquisition and stakeholder management
- Strong commercial and market research skills
- Excellent communication and negotiation abilities
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Job Overview
- Exciting opportunity to join a fast growing business creating flagship industry events across UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the wider region.
- Looking for an ambitious Senior Conference Producer or experienced Conference Producer ready for the next step.
- Role involves leading research, content strategy, agenda development, senior speaker acquisition, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead in depth industry research to identify market trends, business challenges, and emerging opportunities.
- Own the development of commercially successful conference agendas, formats, and event concepts.
- Create high impact programmes that attract senior decision makers, sponsors, and partners.
- Identify key industry themes, disruptive trends, and future market opportunities.
- Conduct detailed competitor analysis and market mapping.
- Build a strong understanding of industry value chains to identify commercial opportunities.
- Lead identification and development of speaker, advisory board, and VIP delegate strategies.
Speaker Acquisition & Stakeholder Management
- Identify, approach, negotiate, and secure high profile C suite speakers, government representatives, and industry leaders.
- Take ownership of speaker acquisition strategies and achieve agreed speaker confirmation targets.
- Develop long term relationships with senior executives, advisors, associations, partners, and sponsors.
- Lead speaker communications from invitation through to onsite delivery.
- Maintain accurate speaker pipelines, invitation trackers, and production reporting systems.
- Ensure agendas are continuously updated with confirmed speakers and session structures.
- Oversee collection of speaker bios, headshots, presentations, and documentation.
- Manage speaker requirements including session positioning, content alignment, travel logistics, and licensing.
- Prepare comprehensive speaker briefing materials.
- Ensure speakers, moderators, and panellists are fully prepared ahead of the event.
Advisory Board Development & Management
- Build and manage senior level advisory boards to strengthen event credibility.
- Identify and secure influential industry leaders for strategic input.
- Lead advisory board outreach, communication, meeting planning, and follow up.
- Drive targeted advisory board attendance through structured engagement campaigns.
- Capture advisory board feedback and translate insights into stronger agendas and commercial opportunities.
- Maintain accurate stakeholder records and develop long term advisory relationships.
Event Project Ownership
- Take full ownership of assigned event portfolios from concept development through to delivery.
- Manage production timelines, milestones, and key deliverables across multiple events.
- Work collaboratively with sales, sponsorship, marketing, operations, and leadership teams.
- Ensure all agenda development, speaker acquisition, and content milestones are delivered on time.
- Proactively identify challenges and provide solutions throughout the production cycle.
- Maintain exceptional standards of organisation, communication, and stakeholder management.
- Support onsite event delivery, speaker management, and content quality control.
- Contribute ideas for new event launches, formats, partnerships, and growth opportunities.
Marketing & Website Coordination
- Work with marketing teams to develop strong audience engagement and promotional campaigns.
- Prepare comprehensive marketing briefs.
- Provide compelling content to support email campaigns, social media, PR, and audience acquisition.
- Ensure event websites remain accurate, engaging, and commercially positioned.
- Review and improve agenda & speaker promotions and event communication.
- Identify strong content stories and announcements to increase market engagement.
Commercial & Sponsorship Support
- Work closely with sponsorship and delegate teams to support revenue growth.
- Develop commercially attractive agendas that align audience needs with sponsor priorities.
- Produce detailed sponsorship intelligence briefs.
- Provide regular market updates and stakeholder intelligence to sales teams.
- Identify potential sponsors, partners, VIP delegates, and strategic relationships.
- Create conference content that supports audience growth, sponsorship value, and event profitability.
- Contribute directly to portfolio growth through innovation and commercial awareness.
Team Support & Mentoring
- Provide guidance and support to junior producers in research, agenda creation, and speaker acquisition.
- Share best practices, industry knowledge, and feedback to improve team performance.
- Support junior team members in managing priorities and meeting project deadlines.
- Lead by example maintaining high standards of organisation, communication, and commercial awareness.
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