Dubai Wedding Summit

Emma Pope – EMAAR Hospitality Group

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<div class="zw-line-content">Pope moved to Dubai in 2004 and soon found her passion with Event planning, while </div>
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Maya Itani – Itani & Co.

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 <h3>Maya Itani – Itani & Co.</h3>
 Maya is an award-winning marketing consultant specialized in brand development and strategy. 
With 12 years of experience in multinational brand management and entrepreneurship, Maya capitalizes on her experience working with both large brands and SMEs to help companies of all sizes detangle the complex world of marketing. 
By combining a deep knowledge of the Middle East consumer with extensive brand building experience, she helps regional companies harness the power of brands to create real business impact.

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Adonia D’Souza – Flair

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 <h3>Adonia D’Souza – Flair</h3>
 After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Mass Media in India, Adonia started her career in the entertainment industry with Prime Focus as a Production Coordinator. She later moved to Dubai to venture out and joined a marketing & branding agency as an Account Manager. Over the years Adonia developed her sales and marketing skills which caught Flair’s attention.
Adonia joined Flair in 2016 during their expansion phase and brought along with her valuable people skills. Her focus at Flair has been to develop the sales and marketing department, which in turn made her the clients go-to person.

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Melon Perez – The MelRish Studio

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 <h3>Melon Perez – The MelRish Studio</h3>
 <div>Melon Perez is the CEO and founder of The MelRish Studio. With over 500 weddings and 200 corporate events, The MelRish Studio celebrated their 10 year anniversary this year and have recently opened their Manila office.</div>
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<div>They have covered major corporate events like MEFCC, Gitex, launch of the Mercedes S Class and social media content for big brands like Uber, Al Islami, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Jetex, etc.</div>
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<div>Melon is also an award-winning director of short films and considered as one of the most influential Filipinos in the Gulf.</div>

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Kelly Lundberg – Celebrity Stylist and Business Mentor

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 <h3>Kelly Lundberg – Celebrity Stylist and Business Mentor</h3>
 Dubai-based Kelly Lundberg is one of the most diverse business entrepreneurs to have emerged out of the styling world to date. Gaining notoriety as a celebrity stylist, she has since propelled herself to an Award-winning Business Owner, Business Mentor and International Speaker. Lundberg garners an ever growing loyal following across several social media platforms, from which she shares her business knowledge, style advice and tools for self-empowerment.
By combining the best in catwalk and commerce, Kelly launched her very own business educational program: The S.Academy – training aspiring stylists & aspiring lifestyle business owners on how to launch & grow their very own profitable businesses. She also has a number of best-selling books, with a new release due to emerge in 2020. She regularly hosts and presents keynote speeches and motivational sessions across the world on a host of entrepreneurship and style led topics, such as her powerful TEDx Talk entitled ‘The Currency of Life’.

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Hannah Matthews – Couture Events

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 <h3>Hannah Matthews – Couture Events</h3>
 Couture Events have been planning and managing high-profile luxury weddings, social celebrations and corporate productions for 15 years. In the first year of her role as General Manager, Hannah has worked with one of the biggest car brands in the world, a large ‘.com’ from America and a market leader in the oil and gas sector. Her team played a vital role in arguably the largest wedding in Abu Dhabi last season and they have some very exciting projects coming up in time for 2020

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Rahul Kumar – Vivaah Weddings

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 <h3>Rahul Kumar – Vivaah Weddings</h3>
 Rahul Kumar is Co-Owner and Director of Vivaah Weddings which is a Bespoke Wedding Planning & Management company that assists families right from inception, all the way through execution and the wrap up. Being in business for over a decade, Rahul and his business partner Arun have planned, conceptualized and managed numerous destination weddings around the world.
Rahul is also the chairperson of MEWA – The Middle East Wedding Alliance which is the first of its kind consortium of wedding professionals in the region. Rahul and Arun believe in the philosophy of Giver’s Gain and have constantly been supporting and growing a community of wedding professionals.
Vivaah Weddings has been rated amongst the Top 10 Wedding Planners in the World and The Best Wedding Planners in the Middle East 2019. Quite recently, they have added another feather in their hat by having conceptualized, planned and managed the First Indian Destination Wedding in Disneyland Paris.

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Our Speakers

Emma Pope – EMAAR Hospitality Group

Maya Itani – Itani & Co.

Adonia D’Souza – Flair

Melon Perez – The MelRish Studio

Kelly Lundberg – Celebrity Stylist and Business Mentor

Hannah Matthews – Couture Events

Rahul Kumar – Vivaah Weddings

Nikki Rutherford (MC)