Melissa Deziel

Melissa Deziel

Group: ,

Position: Congress Activity Manager / Directeur du Congrès

Email: congress@cfes.ca

About Me

Melissa is in her fourth year of Management Engineering at the University of Waterloo and is the Activity Manager for Congress 2013. This year, she plans to work with her Waterloo Congress Executive team as well as the rest of the CFES team to keep member schools informed on Congress developments, and work toward providing a conference that is equally beneficial to our member schools and sponsoring partners. Please don’t hesitate to email her at melissa.deziel@cfes.ca if you have any feedback for our organizing team.

Work Plan

Orientation Goals Actions/Measures Success Indicators Follow-up and Results
Congress 2013 to be planned and orchestrated. Organize Congress 2013. Form organizing committee.
  • Functioning and fantastic organizing committee.
Find all venues.
  • Contracts made with hotel, venues, and food vendors.
Regular meetings to ensure progress is made.
  • 24-hour response policy.
  • Bi-weekly strategy planning meetings.
Acquire sponsorship funding. Create sponsorship package and plan.
  • Package completed and sent, and contacts are made to discuss sponsorship.
Find speakers relevant to our theme. Explore industry, and academic professionals to give sessions.
  • Speakers/sponsors signing to give talks.
Create 2 Year Transition Package. Document the steps the 2013 organizing committee took to plan the event for following years to reference.
  • Complete, concise document showing the highs and lows of planning Congress.

Work Plan Updated: March 18, 2012