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Event Planner
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What this course establishes
- Translate stakeholder and attendee needs into a controlled event charter, scope, budget, schedule, responsibility map and procurement record
- Design an accessible registration, venue, program, communications and service plan with traceable requirements, capacity and contingency decisions
- Coordinate run-of-show execution, issue escalation, emergency interfaces, financial reconciliation, privacy-minimized evaluation and closeout
Entry knowledge
- Basic spreadsheet, calendar and document skills
- Clear written and spoken coordination
- Ability to follow venue, safety, privacy and accessibility procedures exactly
Scope boundaries
- Uses fictional clients, attendees, venues, vendors, sponsors and incidents only; learners must not approve contracts or payments, represent permits as issued, serve alcohol/food, provide medical/security/crowd control, construct or rig temporary structures, connect electrical systems, use pyrotechnics, direct traffic, override venue capacity or publish attendee data without authorized qualified professionals
- Does not replace venue management, emergency management/incident command, fire/building/health authorities, licensed security, law enforcement, EMS, accessibility specialists, food/alcohol licensees, electricians, riggers, engineers, accountants, insurers, counsel, unions or cultural/community authorities; an event planner coordinates their approved decisions rather than impersonating them
Fastest competency route
Completion is self-paced and competency-based. Prior event experience shortens study only when every requirement, authority, cost, dependency, access service, capacity, vendor commitment, permit/test status, emergency interface, data control, show change and reconciliation is demonstrated; no duration, job, credential, permit, attendance, revenue, safety or event outcome is guaranteed.
- Pass diagnostics in objectives, scope, stakeholder authority, budget, schedule, procurement, venue, capacity, registration, accessibility, program, vendors, communications, safety, contingencies, show calling, evaluation and reconciliation
- Complete the synthetic event-control audit and reproduce every charter, cost, dependency, accessibility, vendor, registration, room-set, run-of-show, emergency interface and closeout correction
- Correct every duplicate ID, unstated objective, budget double count, impossible dependency, unsigned vendor assumption, capacity breach, inaccessible seating/route, missing communication aid, dietary/allergen gap, undisclosed sponsor, exposed attendee data, missing permit evidence, ambiguous emergency command, unapproved run-of-show change and misleading evaluation denominator
Full self-paced route
- Purpose, scope, stakeholders, budget, schedule and procurement
- Registration, venue, program, accessibility, vendors and communications
- Safety, contingency, live operations, evaluation and closeout
- Applied event production book and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Purpose, scope, stakeholders, budget, schedule, and procurement
Convert an event request into a measurable, authorized and financially controlled plan.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Registration, venue, program, accessibility, vendors, and communications
Design an event journey that is usable, accessible, capacity-controlled and operationally traceable.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Safety, contingency, live operations, evaluation, and closeout
Coordinate a controlled live event and close it with accurate safety, operational, financial and outcome evidence.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Plan and close a fictional accessible event
Use only supplied fictional people, venues, vendors, sponsors and records. Do not sign contracts, approve payments, claim permits, handle real attendee data, direct emergencies, serve regulated food/alcohol or perform technical/security/medical work. Real events require named authorities, qualified vendors and jurisdiction-specific review.
- Charter, stakeholder/authority and requirement registers, responsibility map, work breakdown, dependency schedule, version/change controls, line-item budget/forecast and normalized vendor comparison
- Accessible attendee journey and registration, privacy/retention map, venue/capacity/access inspection, room/agenda plan, access services, speaker/vendor/catering coordination and accessible disclosed communications
- Risk/hazard and permit/evidence trackers, accessible emergency/cancellation interfaces, staff briefing, run of show, cue/fallback/issue/incident logs and controlled live-change scenario
- Evaluation with exact denominators and limitations, complaint/access/incident synthesis, financial/vendor/property reconciliation, after-action owners/dates, rights/media archive and data/records closeout
Passing standard: 85 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Meeting and event management, hospitality, venue operations, production, fundraising, communications, accessibility, emergency management or project management
- Supervised experience with the venue's capacity, emergency, access, food/alcohol, technical-production and incident procedures
- Event-, venue- and jurisdiction-specific permits or credentials checked with official issuers; this internal course is not a permit, safety, security, food-service, alcohol-service, emergency-management or professional-planner credential