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The Ops Nest

07766406046

5 Mill House Cottage
High Street
Great Oakley
Essex
CO12 5AQ

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The Ops Nest is a membership community for venues, organisers, suppliers and contractors to come together to learn, network, and collaborate. Over 280 ops professionals currently make up the community with an even wider network of partners, speakers and experts.


 


Enabling brilliance is at the heart of The Ops Nest with membership benefits designed to further knowledge, networking and experience, and members offered a range of opportunities to come together to inspire, support and further a career in events.


 


Open to event professionals of all levels of experience, The Ops Nest is a multi-channel learning community facilitatating structured online learning, weekly online meet-ups, access to industry experts, celebratory meet-ups, a broad library of resources and an active event community.

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Ops Foundation

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Ops Foundation is four dedicated days of pure, high-octane learning for ops execs and administrators ready to level up in the world of operations. We run two courses a year at Excel alongside key partners and experts spending two days in the classroom and two days getting hands-on in the venue.

Ops Knowledge

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Ops Knowledge is the only formal online learning assessment for business event operations professionals. Incorporating core modules and specialist topics, the course includes formal lessons, conversation with leading industry figures, expert advice, peer reviewed downloads and builds to create an ops bible.

Ops on Tour

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Twice a year we take our members behind-the-scenes with a supplier to truly understand their processes and how our decisions as ops professionals impact on them. Tread where no ops person has before and understand the fundamentals of the businesses that build your events.

Ops Leaders

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The leading minds in event operations - Ops Directors, Head of Ops and owners. We come together to curate learning, workshop ops challenges and professionalise the ops role. This is an invite-only meeting of the best ops minds.

Ops Socials

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Annual summer and winter celebration of all things ops - an opportunity to kick back, relax and do something a little different. Previous events have included a VR experience, bootlegging in a Wild West Saloon, a Great British Bake Off, A Murder Mystery and The Traitors. An Ops Nest Member benefit this event is always over subscribed!

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The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) is a trade body representing the very best contractors and suppliers of goods and services to the UK’s thriving events industry.

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ESSA
119 High Street
Berkhamsted
Herts HP4 2DJ

Tel: 01442 285812

info@essa.uk.com

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