Conference Producer

Company Description
**About Canadian Real Estate Forums**

Canadian Real Estate Forums is the Canada’s largest and most prestigious series of commercial real estate conferences in Canada, comprising 19 annual and biennial events. Renowned for the calibre and seniority of our speaker faculties, our programmes consist of in-depth sessions borne out of months of industry research. We cover the topics that the industry wants to hear and feature the unique perspectives of the people they want to hear from.

Our key strength lies in the unrivalled networking opportunities, creating the annual meeting point where real estate industry leaders from investors, owners, developers, lenders, brokers, occupiers and consultants gather to create new contacts, build commercial relationships and exchange strategic insights. Unmatched networking, fantastic content, top performers, and industry trailblazers mean that Canadian Real Estate Forums events are the “must-attend” events of the year.

**About Informa Connect's Global Finance Division**

Canadian Real Estate Forums is part of the Informa Connect Global Finance group, which offers cutting edge, market driven content and facilitated networking at its very best. Customers gain fresh insights, build relationships and create new commercial opportunities with leading innovators and key influencers in the financial sector.

Spanning the global Private Capital, Wealth and Asset Management, Banking,& FinTech and Real Estate sectors, our global offerings cover all aspects of the high profile Financial Services sector. In these rapidly changing and disrupted markets, our innovative product solutions and world class service ensure we deliver an unrivalled customer experience to clients all over the world.

Our events capture all the latest innovations and developments across the industry and across the globe. By building digital communities for year-round conversation, creating exclusive content and providing access to investors, our position at the heart of the market makes us a credible industry partner to major financial services firms and solution providers.

**About Informa Connect**

Informa Connect, part of the FTSE100 Informa Group, is a global live events, digital content specialist connecting professionals with knowledge, ideas and opportunities. Informa Connect run around 800 events each year in over 60 countries, create digital platforms based on engaging news and information content, and operate professional development programs for individuals and businesses in Global Finance, Life Sciences and Pharma and in a number of other specialist markets. Our mission is for our millions of professional and commercial customers to know more, do more and be more through access to extraordinary people and exceptional insight.

Informa Connect - Know more, do more, be more.

**Job Description**:
The role of **Conference Producer** offers an experienced, highly intelligent and commercially astute individual the opportunity to take the lead in determining strategy and shaping the future direction of large-scale industry leading events. This involves researching content, building relationships with key industry executives, designing compelling agendas, guiding content strategy to create a buzz about the conference and leveraging networks to drive the commercial success of events.

Working as part of a strong and experienced Canadian Real Estate Forums team, the **Conference Producer** is a motivated, resourceful and responsible individual who relishes the challenge and autonomy of creating world-class programs from concept to delivery, and who is proactive, highly organised, outgoing, professional and has excellent communication skills.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Analyse the industry and past conferences to determine market opportunities
- Work with the Executive Director of Real Estate to set the event’s strategy for the year
- Research the conference programs by contacting a complete cross section of the target market through phone, desk research and meetings to determine customer requirements
- Creating and establishing a network of key informants in the market to act as a resource for speaker recruitment, programming suggestions and potential promotion of the event
- Create and run an advisory board for each event
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of competitors’ events through websites, brochures and speaking to key executives that attend their events
- Create compelling, commercially-driven, high value, current and differentiated programs: content positioning, speaker representation and delivery are at the core of the overall strategy, and you will ensure your respective events are representative, in a geographic, experiential and sectorial basis across the complete real estate industry
- Identify and contact potential speakers and encourage them to join the speaker faculty
- Source special guest speakers from outside the industry/country and negotiate speaker fe