About Elie
🎯 Event Design & Production
- Planning B2B & B2C events from A to Z: conferences, seminars, webinars, festivals, concerts, screenings, film series, trade shows, dinners, galas
- Development of programs and speaking formats (keynote, panel discussion, interview)
- Speaker sourcing and vendor management
- Logistics, budget management, and post-event follow-up
⚡️ Event Project Management
- Direction and coordination of cross-functional projects
- Full management: production, planning, vendors
- Team management and on-site operational supervision
- Multi-stakeholder management in international environments
📊 Event Marketing & Performance
- Definition of lead generation and capture objectives
- Event KPI tracking
- Post-event reporting
- Coordination with marketing and sales teams
🤝 Strategic Partnerships
- Target identification, negotiation, and activation
- Long-term partner relationship management (institutional & corporate)
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Experience
- MicrosoftEvent Specialist | Microsoft (via VML Canada)SOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJuly 2024 - July 2025 (1 year)Montréal, Canada
- Coordination of 120+ B2B events:Microsoft Security Days (New York, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal), Microsoft Discovery Hour, Microsoft AI Tour, InCyber Forum 2024, Quebec Health Informatics Colloquium, PSN AI Roadshow etc.
- On-site events(workshops, flagships, trade shows, conferences, discovery days): Logistics planning, timeline management, floor plan design, sourcing (venues, caterers, set design, hotels, airlines), sending communication materials (banners, exhibition stands), coordination of Sales/Product teams and external vendors, stand setup, signage, roadshow.
- Online events(webinars, information sessions): Landing page creation, content download management, marketing email dispatch (CRM), chat moderation.
- Multi-partner relationship management(C-level, sales/marketing teams, external vendors): Meeting organization, speaker training, audiovisual testing, deliverable tracking.
- Event Marketing:KPI tracking and ROI reporting post-event to optimize future actions, with a focus on Demand Generation, continuous process improvement, and standardization.
- Goethe-Institut e.V.Cultural Programs & Partnerships Manager | Goethe-Institut (German Embassy)CULTUREApril 2021 - October 2023 (2 years and 6 months)Tunis, TunisiaDesign, production, and coordination of an annual cultural program: 15+ international projects per year, €100K budget, in collaboration with Tunisian and European institutional, associative, and artistic stakeholders.
Event Project Manager:
- Music & Live:4-day Sommer Jazz residency in Hammamet with 3 Tunisian artists and a German saxophonist, including a 3-concert tour (Goethe-Institut Garden, Habibi Club, Centre Culturel Liberté). Opening night of the Carthage Musical Days in partnership with German artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert.
- Cinema & Workshops:Regular programming of the FilmKlub (themed screening series). Film workshop on self-organization and self-production, in partnership with filmArche (Berlin), for independent Tunisian filmmakers, over 5 days at the Goethe-Institut Tunis.
- Visual Arts & Exhibitions:Manager for the 2021 and 2022 editions of the Tasawar curatorial program, including a hybrid international conference (SWANA region, speakers: Morehshin Allahyari, Adham Hafez, Reem Aljeally, Jessica El Mal) and a 4-day nighttime exhibition in the Medina of Tunis (Bir Lahjar). Photo exhibition "Corde Inconnu."
- Fashion & Sustainable Design:Co-design and production of the "Moodha Okhra" project with the association Pontalent, a program raising awareness about sustainable fashion and upcycling, combining workshops, training, and a collective exhibition of Tunisian designers.
Manager of Institutional Partnerships & Funding:
- Securing and activating partnerships with Tunisian ministries, embassies, European cooperation agencies, NGOs, and artistic organizations.
- Responding to international calls for projects (EU, foreign delegations). Grant management as a funding body, budget monitoring, and reporting to headquarters.
- Elie L.Freelance Event Project Manager | France & InternationalCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)Paris, France**Design, coordination, and production of corporate, cultural, and institutional events**: seminars, internal and external events, inaugurations, vernissages, trade shows, VIP dinners, conventions.**Strategic scoping and consulting**: defining objectives, developing the event concept, responding to tenders, associated communication plans considered from the ideation stage.**Full production management**: timeline, budget management, vendor sourcing and negotiation, logistics coordination, on-site supervision, post-event follow-up and analysis.Multi-stakeholder coordination:internal teams, technical vendors, institutional and corporate partners.Clients:Capgemini (France), Bon-Vivant (Canada), Goethe-Institut (Tunisia), French Institute for Anatolian Studies (Turkey)
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Education
- Master en Droit PublicUniversité de Bordeaux2018Master en Droit Public - mention Sciences Politiques
- Master's in GeopoliticsSciences Po Grenoble2019Master en Géopolitique - Mutations et Intégrations au Moyen-Orient et en Méditerrannée