While still studying drama and events management, Nora already spent her summers working at music festivals and other live events, mainly to afford the tickets to yet more festivals, theatre and cultural events. After managing a theatre festival in Hamburg for two years, she moved to Berlin and organized galas, corporate events, street markets and supervised dance theatre productions and international concert tours. Her path led her to the Berlin Festival of Lights, where she gained experience in working with light art and large-scale projection mapping. For the Festival of Lights, she organized projection mappings and light festivals in Germany, Romania and Luxembourg. On the side, she started translating and content writing for VRtual X, a company specialized on VR, AR and virtual events and she is still doing this today. When she moved to Vancouver in 2017, Nora spent a fun summer working for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival before joining Go2 Productions to work with projection mapping once again. When Covid-19 hit the event industry, she moved on to work in communications, marketing and virtual events for a local hybrid distribution agency.

Reegan Evans began her Special Events career in her early days setting up pipe and drape, dressing models and reading timelines for her entrepreneurial mother who produced international fashion shows. Other calls to duty during that time involved reviewing large scale festival planning alongside her father who was a founder of Canada’s most successful multicultural heritage festival. Educated later in the fine arts, studying classical voice and piano introduced her into an early career working with professional sound including studio and live sound, followed by a short period in catering in between opening and running larger hospitality operations including a successful winery in British Columbia's beautiful Okanagan. An event professional for over 20 years with diverse experience working with all sectors including not-for-profit, Reegan Evans then founded the company EWS EVENTS based out of Vancouver in 2018. EWS EVENTS specializes in large scale events whose focus is to produce and plan event types Galas, Retreats and Corporate style events.

Josie has been in customer service all of her adult life; she started out in the event industry 25 years ago as an assistant photographer to her husband’s business. 15 years ago, she made the decision to be one of the first people to bring Flipbooks to British Columbia. Her business Langis Event Media has expanded over the years to now include Photobooths, Selfie Rings, Social Booths and the 360 Spin Booth. She was the also the first person to introduce the Selfie Ring to BC. Josie is passionate about what she does and prides herself on providing fun & outstanding service. After meeting her husband 33 years ago, she moved from her home country of Ireland and now has four kids who drive her passion to be the best at what she does. Josie joined ILEA to meet like minded people and to help others in the industry.

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