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Team Descriptions

Conference Programming

Conference Programming curates content for HPAIR conferences by crafting a thematic vision for the keynote, panel, and seminars, and by sourcing world-class, influential speakers from all over the world, giving them the unique opportunity to forge long-lasting relationships with their delegates and prospective speakers. Bring in the coolest speakers! In the past, we've had the CEO and Chair of Bain & Company, the Former U.N. Secretary General, former President of Korea, the CTO of Facebook, Priyanka Chopra, Mayor of Tokyo, President of Timor-Leste, and so many more! Check our speakers at hpair.org and @officialhpair.

Multimedia

Multimedia shapes HPAIR’s online presence and brand for delegates, speakers, and sponsors. The team develops promotional strategies, manages social media, and creates content such as newsletters, podcasts, university outreach, and partnerships. Associates also design conference logos, merchandise, handbooks, and other marketing materials while capturing and editing photos and videos at conferences. Experience with Canva, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, or similar programs is preferred. The multimedia team will be responsible for taking photos at our conferences, filming videos of the events, and editing these resources to fit within the marketing and broad themes of HPAIR. You can find a snippet of our past work at our Instagram or YouTube channel!

Delegate Experience

Delegate Experience manages all delegate-related aspects of the conference. The Delegate Experience team crafts the application review process, which solicits applications from over 90 countries, ensures conference affordability through the scholarship program, coordinates with visa officers worldwide to allow delegate entry into our conferences, and communicates conference details regularly with all delegates, giving team members the opportunity to directly interface with some of the world’s brightest young professionals.

Corporate Relations

Corporate Relations drives HPAIR’s sponsorship strategy by building relationships with leading companies and industry partners. Associates identify prospective sponsors, develop partnership proposals, and negotiate financial and in-kind support that keeps conferences accessible to delegates. Partnerships may include brand sponsorships, flight and transportation discounts, product collaborations, and programming such as Impact Challenges—day-long, corporate-sponsored case competitions. Past partners include Celsius and Polar Seltzer.

Operations

Operations is responsible for ensuring that the conferences run smoothly, and works with other committees and their logistical needs to improve the overall efficiency of the conference. From securing venues and negotiating their corresponding contracts to planning the schedule of the conferences to determining in-conference staffing, Operations touches all aspects of the conferences, wielding a key role behind the scenes.

Finance and Technology

Finance handles the fiscal planning of the conferences and ensures they go smoothly for now and upcoming generations of HPAIR to come. The finance team is responsible for curating conference budgets, cross-collaborating with delegates to process revenue payments, and working directly with the Presidents to ensure HPAIR sustains a healthy fiscal future. The team also is responsible for fostering communication with industry to ensure conferences are financially accessible through sponsorships, and to run the Impact Challenges (sponsored case study/ hack-a-thon style competitions).

Technology uses industry-standard software to build and maintain the digital interfaces that serve traffic to thousands of daily users, processing the transactions that keep HPAIR running. Technology builds and maintains the myHPAIR portal and designs and implements software to make the other teams run more smoothly and improve delegate experience. Projects for the coming semester include building a chatbot to automate routine delegate questions! Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript is required. While no specific framework is required, prior knowledge of React is preferred.