Diwiya Tourani
Senior Conference Producer at MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East- Claim this Profile
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Natalie Ghazaley
Having worked with Diwiya on numerous projects, I must say she is an excellent professional. She helped me understand the company’s project management process and started me with helpful event management guidelines. I am impressed by her work ethic and communication skills. Plus, she easily adjusts to any given situation or business dynamics. But what makes her stand out is her willingness to help others. I am glad to have worked with her and have no hesitation recommending her to potential employers.
Daniyal Baig
Diwiya developed herself into an all rounder events manager during her time at Forbes. She was managing virtual and in-person events with a team of 5 and was able to grow our repeat clientele YoY. She is a great team player and always keen to develop her skill set above and beyond the usual role.
Natalie Ghazaley
Having worked with Diwiya on numerous projects, I must say she is an excellent professional. She helped me understand the company’s project management process and started me with helpful event management guidelines. I am impressed by her work ethic and communication skills. Plus, she easily adjusts to any given situation or business dynamics. But what makes her stand out is her willingness to help others. I am glad to have worked with her and have no hesitation recommending her to potential employers.
Daniyal Baig
Diwiya developed herself into an all rounder events manager during her time at Forbes. She was managing virtual and in-person events with a team of 5 and was able to grow our repeat clientele YoY. She is a great team player and always keen to develop her skill set above and beyond the usual role.
Natalie Ghazaley
Having worked with Diwiya on numerous projects, I must say she is an excellent professional. She helped me understand the company’s project management process and started me with helpful event management guidelines. I am impressed by her work ethic and communication skills. Plus, she easily adjusts to any given situation or business dynamics. But what makes her stand out is her willingness to help others. I am glad to have worked with her and have no hesitation recommending her to potential employers.
Daniyal Baig
Diwiya developed herself into an all rounder events manager during her time at Forbes. She was managing virtual and in-person events with a team of 5 and was able to grow our repeat clientele YoY. She is a great team player and always keen to develop her skill set above and beyond the usual role.
Natalie Ghazaley
Having worked with Diwiya on numerous projects, I must say she is an excellent professional. She helped me understand the company’s project management process and started me with helpful event management guidelines. I am impressed by her work ethic and communication skills. Plus, she easily adjusts to any given situation or business dynamics. But what makes her stand out is her willingness to help others. I am glad to have worked with her and have no hesitation recommending her to potential employers.
Daniyal Baig
Diwiya developed herself into an all rounder events manager during her time at Forbes. She was managing virtual and in-person events with a team of 5 and was able to grow our repeat clientele YoY. She is a great team player and always keen to develop her skill set above and beyond the usual role.
Experience
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MIT Sloan Management Review - Middle East
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United Arab Emirates
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Media Production
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Conference Producer
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Mar 2023 - Present
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Forbes Middle East
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United Arab Emirates
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Conference Producer
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Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
• Conduct regular exploratory research to design and prepare content for both existing and potential conference programmes/agendas. • Ensuring that the conference agenda is at the highest level of commercial viability. • Build and nurture relationships with speakers, key industry associations, and other representative bodies related to current or potential conferences. • Working closely with vendors (AV, Production, Photographer, Videographer, Hospitality, Logistics, Emcee) and ensuring a positive and efficient working relationship. • Managed webinars/virtual events from lead to execution while overseeing logistics and managing communication with clients. • Prepared content for the webinars; Synopsis, Post event report, Socia media, and Emailers. • Projects: Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 in El Gouna, Egypt, Healthcare Summit 2022 in Abu Dhabi , Sustainable Innovation Summit in Dubai Show less
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Dubai World Trade Centre
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Events Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Project Executive
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Aug 2015 - Jun 2020
• Managing budgets and tracker. Planning forecasts, re-forecasts and allocation, plus cost review, optimising and saving.• Engage with client to assess specific needs, to determine specific location, space setup, rental items or any specific request to ensure excellent event execution.• Rolled out the hosted buyers program to capture audiences from targeted regions like Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc. Event responsibilities included:- Researching on top Regional Advisors in the region. - Preparing regional agency agreements.- Launching the business matchmaking programme where exhibitors and buyers set up meeting on the online portal.• Helped in managing the conference from getting abstracts, speaker confirmations, presentations and finalizing the agenda.• Projects: Vicenzaoro Dubai International Jewellery Show and Dubai Optical Show Vision-X.• Assisted Projects: Dubai International Boat Show, Gitex Technology Week, World Art Dubai and Dubai Food Carnival.Marketing:• Identified ways to increase sales by creating newsletters on Eloqua, managing deadlines for the campaigns and adverts to be published in different magazines.• Managing Digital/Social Media Agencies from preparing scope of work to dealing with them on day to day basis.• Raising PR’s in the ERP system. Managing the production of marketing materials, including leaflets, posters, flyers, newsletters, e-newsletters.• Ensured procedures and systems are in place for the production of online exhibitor manuals in order for exhibitors to have adequate information for their participation in our events.• Sourcing advertising opportunities and placing adverts in the press - local, regional, national and specialist publications – both ATL and BTL.• Handling media partnerships and external paid marketing communications. Also kept a tab on the entire process to make sure all deliverables were achieved effectively. Show less
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Project Executive
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Jul 2012 - Aug 2015
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West Zone Group
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United Arab Emirates
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Retail Groceries
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Assistant- Intern
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May 2012 - Jul 2012
• Assisted in day to day running of accounts office • Kept records of all transactions, and are prepared accounts payable, invoices and purchase orders, and petty cash. • Maintained records of invoices and creditors' payments. • To review, develop, maintain and update electronic company database systems and mailing lists • Preparing, coordinating, attending and servicing board meetings and company. • Assisted in day to day running of accounts office • Kept records of all transactions, and are prepared accounts payable, invoices and purchase orders, and petty cash. • Maintained records of invoices and creditors' payments. • To review, develop, maintain and update electronic company database systems and mailing lists • Preparing, coordinating, attending and servicing board meetings and company.
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Education
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Manipal University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Banking and Financial Support Services -
GEMS Education
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