Event
Africa Food Systems Forum
When
Kigali time
Where
Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda
My role
Logistics and delegate movement
Delegates from across the continent, staying in hotels throughout Kigali and meeting at the Kigali Convention Centre. My team and I ran the movement between the two.
Delegates arrived from across the continent and were accommodated in hotels throughout Kigali. The forum itself ran at the Kigali Convention Centre. Between those two facts sits a problem that has to be solved before anybody notices it exists: how every delegate gets from where they are staying to where the sessions are, each morning, and back again each evening, without anyone waiting and without anyone missing a session they had travelled a long way to attend.
My team and I coordinated that movement, hotel by hotel and day by day, against a programme that shifted as programmes do.
It is the part of a conference nobody is meant to remember. That is the measure of whether it was done well.