An
all-female technology team from Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
(MCEC) produced the Chief Executive Women (CEW) Leadership Summit in September.
Along with the tech team, a team made up primarily of women supported every
aspect of the event from planning to catering to security.
Alex Proud, MCEC’s event delivery manager said having an all-female
tech-crew is ‘unheard of’ given women make up just six per cent of the global audio visual industry.
“It was very important for the client to have a team of women work on the
event and there was a lot of planning to make it all come together. Everyone
worked really hard to pull it off and it looked stunning,” added Proud.
Bridget Hart, founder and director of Capital B Creative, the company which
provided event support for the CEW Leadership Summit, said she was proud to be
working with a team of women to support the important event.
“I’ve been an event producer for 35 years and to see a crew made up entirely
of women is so exciting. To have a crew of women for an event that’s supporting
the empowerment of women and gender equality is just super exciting,” she said.
“I’m part of the Women in AV Australia group. I’ve been a producer since
before we had digital projectors, and you’re often the only woman on a crew.
It’s wonderful to see more and more women behind the desk creating content,
being responsible for all the amazing production that we pull together,” she
said.
MCEC has an 80 per cent female executive team, led by chief executive,
Natalie O’Brien. Launched in 2022, the venue’s Gender Equality Action Plan
prioritises three areas including improving workforce representation and
segmentation, providing an inclusive and safe workplace culture and capability,
and creating accessible workplace experience, policies and practices.
