[Case Study Details]

Global Technology Events – Embedding Research & Operational Excellence at Scale

[Case Study Details]

Global Technology Events – Embedding Research & Operational Excellence at Scale

Conference audience
Conference audience

Organization

Fortune 100 Technology Company

Industry

Technology / Events

Service

Strategic Project Management & Digital Business Management

Period

2023 – 2025

Overview

A global technology company’s developer and enterprise conferences—spanning tens of thousands of in-person and digital attendees—required more than standard research support. These multi-program initiatives needed an operational backbone capable of managing overlapping workstreams, budgets, and deliverables at scale.

As Senior Project Manager & Operations Lead (with Indigeno), I provided hands-on project leadership and the operational clarity needed to consistently capture, synthesize, and activate attendee insights across multiple event cycles.

Goals

The engagement aimed to:

Deliver comprehensive pre-, during-, and post-event attendee experience (AX) research.

Deliver comprehensive pre-, during-, and post-event attendee experience (AX) research.

Deliver comprehensive pre-, during-, and post-event attendee experience (AX) research.

Establish program-level operations to coordinate multiple research workstreams.

Establish program-level operations to coordinate multiple research workstreams.

Establish program-level operations to coordinate multiple research workstreams.

Optimize budget and resource allocation for the program each quarter.

Optimize budget and resource allocation for the program each quarter.

Optimize budget and resource allocation for the program each quarter.

Build continuity and scalability across multi-year event research initiatives.

Build continuity and scalability across multi-year event research initiatives.

Build continuity and scalability across multi-year event research initiatives.

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Approach

My dual role combined strategic project management with operations leadership, ensuring research activities were delivered seamlessly and aligned with broader business goals.

Key steps included:

Program Oversight — Maintained quarterly roadmaps, budgets, and program timelines across multiple concurrent projects.

Program Oversight — Maintained quarterly roadmaps, budgets, and program timelines across multiple concurrent projects.

Program Oversight — Maintained quarterly roadmaps, budgets, and program timelines across multiple concurrent projects.

Research Leadership — Coordinated qualitative and quantitative attendee studies, including focus groups, surveys, and in-field interviews.

Research Leadership — Coordinated qualitative and quantitative attendee studies, including focus groups, surveys, and in-field interviews.

Research Leadership — Coordinated qualitative and quantitative attendee studies, including focus groups, surveys, and in-field interviews.

Stakeholder Alignment — Facilitated weekly program meetings and executive reporting to keep leadership informed and engaged.

Stakeholder Alignment — Facilitated weekly program meetings and executive reporting to keep leadership informed and engaged.

Stakeholder Alignment — Facilitated weekly program meetings and executive reporting to keep leadership informed and engaged.

Operational Infrastructure — Established repeatable processes for planning, reporting, and cross-team collaboration to ensure long-term scalability.

Operational Infrastructure — Established repeatable processes for planning, reporting, and cross-team collaboration to ensure long-term scalability.

Operational Infrastructure — Established repeatable processes for planning, reporting, and cross-team collaboration to ensure long-term scalability.

Results

Through structured project management and operational leadership, the events research program achieved:

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Final Thoughts

This engagement demonstrated how pairing research operations with program-level project management creates not only stronger insights but also scalable systems that enable long-term organizational success. By embedding structure into a complex events research program, I helped transform scattered workflows into coordinated, repeatable, insight-driven operations.

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Project management & operations that scale with you

Keep projects on track with clear timelines, budgets, and reporting

Keep projects on track with clear timelines, budgets, and reporting

Streamline digital operations so teams and tools work seamlessly

Streamline digital operations so teams and tools work seamlessly

Gain a steady partner who bridges strategy and execution

Gain a steady partner who bridges strategy and execution

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Ladies sharing coffee