3,400 attendees · 414 speakers · 330+ investors Luxinnovation called me after watching me host an event for Paperjam. Which is how most of my work arrives. People book me once they’ve seen the room, not once they’ve read the CV. We met once, which is normally all it takes. Once I had the brief, I came back with a **storytelling concept** for the whole evening. Stars. From there, the work stayed on my side. I wrote the script, proposed the lighting and the music, and handled the **diplomatic protocol for the Grand Duke’s arrival.** Luxinnovation approved, adjusted two lines, and got on with the two hundred other things a 3,400-person event demands. They had my number for anything that moved, and things moved. At this level there is no room for a stumble on stage, so **I don’t bring an organiser problems. I bring them a version to say yes or no to.** **What a client gets:** one meeting, a storytelling concept, a script nobody had to write, and an the room left left talking about sparks.

I’ve worked at Paperjam as an MC and events’ programme manager. I’ve hosted business events from the stage, and I opened political debates with members of the Luxembourg government in the room. In both cases I wrote the script myself: not a running order, but a thread that carried one speaker into the next, so the evening held together instead of being a queue of presentations. Then I interviewed the VIP guests on camera afterwards. The one I still think about is an event **10x6 on HR**. 10 speakers on stage, speaking for 6 min each. I built the whole evening around a single object, a prop I carried on stage with me, that tied the story together: the search for who you actually are.  **I used the lighting. At one point I disappeared from the stage entirely** and came back speaking to the room from inside the audience, not from the front. **Afterwards, one of the guests told me he got goosebumps when I spoke to the room from among them rather than from the stage.** That is the whole job, in one sentence. Anyone can read out names and keep time. The point is to make 400 people feel something at 9 PM. That evening is why I’m now doing this on my own. Other organisations saw it, asked me to host theirs, and not long after I started my own business.

One online meeting, then I came back with a story for the ceremony. The real work was the list. Hundreds of names from all over the world, in languages I don’t speak, with sounds English doesn’t have. A name is the one thing a graduate owns completely, and getting it wrong in front of their family is not a small mistake. **So I learned to say them properly.** Afterwards a father came up to me. His daughter’s surname was Polish, and he wanted to say I’d said it properly. **That was the moment I knew the evening had worked.** The room was another question. Parents from everywhere, every level of English, simultaneous interpreters in the booth. **We ran the ceremony in English with French woven through it**, so nobody sat there for two hours feeling like a guest at someone else’s event. I sent the **interpreters** my full script beforehand. **Almost no host does this.** I was an interpreter myself, and I know what it costs to work blind. LUNEX didn’t have to think about the pronunciation, the story, or the booth. They watched their students graduate.