SERVICE SUMMARY
HOSTING:
PANEL MODERATOR
Having been in the games and esports industries for a long time in several roles, Marie has vast experience and a solid understanding for most topics within it, along with her own expertise in a few areas. Combined with long experience with hosting (her first event in 2007), Marie has a great ability to both craft interesting questions and moderate a live panel. Marie explores a topic with your experts, with ample preparation to ensure the panel gives great insights, shows the panelists’ expertise and gives them all a moment to shine. Contact Marie below to book her for a panel or keep browsing to learn her process.
PROCESS
Marie has hosted more than 15 panels over the years and have developed an intricate process to maximize the experience for both the panelists and the audience:
Collaborative board created
Marie sets up and shares a Miro board as a collaborative space to prepare the panel. Participants are asked to fill in their profile including their title, pronouns and notable track record.
Initial thoughts shared
As a spring board for brainstorming, Marie starts writing some of her thoughts based on the panel description, and encourage others to do the same
Request for meeting availability
Marie makes and sends out a doodle poll for when panelists can meet and bounce their thoughts and expertise in a ideation session
Meeting invite sent out
The doodle poll is locked and Marie sends out a meeting invite to whenever as many as possible can join. Those who cannot are still welcome to add their thoughts on the board.
Brainstorming meeting takes place
Marie takes the panelists through a collaborative exercise where they get to share and discuss their thoughts. Marie takes notes and starts to visually sort them into a heat map. The panel uses this map to align on sub topics.
Initial questions shared
Marie takes her notes and discussion takeaways and makes an initial draft of the panel structure, sub topics and questions, and shares with the panel for feedback and iteration
Questions are finalized
Marie locks the questions and shares the final draft with participants
Final preparation
Marie prints the questions on her speaker cards, marking which ones are fillers (and might be skipped pending time left) and who to direct which question to.
Showtime
The actual event takes place where Marie presents the topic, herself and participants before heading into all topics and questions. She rounds off the session with a Q & A where she has her own backup questions case the audience is silent.
MARIE'S GOALS
Entertain the audience
Marie asks fun questions, reacts for audience laughs and ensures interesting topics get more attention
Let each panelist shine
Marie introduces each panelist properly and ensures to ask questions they are experts of
Bring out insightful answers
Marie ensures all sub-topics are covered and mentions interesting answers panelists said at earlier discussions
Ensure panelists feel comfortable
Marie asks panelists beforehand for their pronouns and any topics they will want to avoid answering during the Q & A
TESTIMONIALS
"Kept it organic"
"Amazing experience"
"Wonderful host"
We’re very happy to have had Marie for this role, she did her research well and made sure to gather as much information as possible about our speakers which showed when she introduced them on stage.
Marie also acted as moderator on a number of panels and leveraged her industry expertise skillfully to ask relevant questions and ensure the discussions were insightful.
"Captivating"
Once live, Marie captivated the audience with her humor and charisma and showed great improvisation skills and ‘cool’. No matter what situation was being thrown at her – technical delays, speakers arriving late or award mix-ups, she handled them like a pro and made sure to always keep the crowd entertained. We are looking forward to work with Marie again at future events.
"A complete professional"
Marie moderated two panels at Gamesforum Barcelona, on cross-platform gaming and fostering game economies. Marie was well researched and prepared for both topics and worked closely with our panellists to ensure they were comfortable. Setting up calls and sending out questions well ahead of time so panellists could prepare.
When on stage Marie seemlessly engaged the audience and brought them into the discussion. The panel felt organic and was enjoyable to watch!
I look forward to working with Marie again on future Gamesforum events! Her questions cards were awesomely designed too!
"Great job in all aspects"
At the conference itself, Marie showed her versatility and did a great job in all aspects - from leading a fireside chat, to moderating a panel with senior members, to leading Q&A for each session and of course the hosting itself. We received a lot of good feedback and were very happy with the result.
Our goal to grow our conference was achieved and we reached a new high as a conference organizer, much thanks to Marie.
SERVICES OFFERED
Moderating a panel
This service includes:
- Collaborative board
- Preparation meeting
- Tailored questions to participant expertise
- Questions given out in advance
- Ability to feedback on questions
- Own speaker cards
- Proper intro for each panelist
- 4-5 subtopics handled
- Q & A at the end
- Backup questions case none are asked
€250
(excl VAT & travel)