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Oct 2022
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Live from SES: Nadim Jamal | MANAGING DI...

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Nadim Jamal is Managing Director and co-founder of Event Lab. Prior to founding Event Lab, Nadim spent over a decade quickly rising through the ranks of mega-events production. With a keen insight for complex planning, he’s been a project director and advisor behind numerous large-scale national and international events.

Since Event Lab’s formation, Nadim has been a transformative figure in the events industry of the region. His ability to rapidly find and deploy locally based talent, combined with a conscious effort to identify and train homegrown event management and production talent has shifted the dynamics of the sector. The industry now operates more locally, more efficiently and with greater use of multi-cultural and local talent.

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