The Event Show 2016 focuses on improving participants’ skills - Spiff





The Event Show, an annual gathering of events management professionals in the Niger-Delta and Nigeria at large, would this year focus on training of practitioners and other intending players to improve their skills in service delivery.


This was the submission of Mrs. Izobe Spiff, Principal Consultant, Tres Bien Events, organisers of the Port-Harcourt based show, while speaking on Monday about the 2016 edition of the event billed to hold later this month.
The Event Show, she explained, was born out of the need to showcase the events industry as one that is viable and where players can do things professionally and proficiently.
According to her, the show, which is in its 6th edition, is a three-pronged event where people can learn, do business and have fun, adding that the business training component was added to address participants yearnings.
 “In this year’s show, we will have an educational session where seasoned professionals would come and give business tips to participants. The idea is help address issues that some participants said have posed a challenge to their desire to belong to the events industry. People have complained about paucity of funding and absence of skills as factors that militate against their desire for business entry,” Spiff said.
The organizer revealed also that there would be a mentorship raffle, which is an ingenious idea to train existing and young entrepreneurs for free. According to her, all that is required is for individuals to attend the educational seminars and then indicate their area of interest for training, which include cake-baking, pastry, fashion, decoration, photography, videography and events.
The free training, she noted, takes away the funding challenge that young people often complain about and in some cases even lead to employment of such trainees. In previous events, about 50 participants have benefitted from the free training.
“The idea is show the young ones that when they leave school they need not necessarily become a career applicants but can awaken their entrepreneurial spirits to better their lot. If you do not get a job immediately after graduation, you can key into the entrepreneurship opportunities offered by the event industry,” she stated.
Spiff explained further that the events industry was being because it is one that is easy to belong to as startup cost is minimal in comparison to others industries.
Spiff added that a runway show component, which is a platform for established and upcoming designers to showcase their designs, will feature prominently at the event.  



Izobe Spiff, Principal Consultant, Tres Bien Events, organisers of The Event Show

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