
Mariya Georgieva
Mariya is a creative Marketing and Events professional with over 10 years of experience in creating in-person and digital experiences. Her interests lie at the intersection of event management, digital marketing, content development and branding. She possesses a lifelong passion for art, creating meaningful and memorable experiences and engaging communities.
Mariya holds a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts - Art History from Concordia University and a graduate degree in Marketing at McGill University. Mariya’s passion for event management is driven by her love to create experiences that engage, connect and delight people, as well as have an impact and deliver on overall objectives. She has been in been working as part of Hospitality Concordia's team for the past 4 years where she leads the planning of in-person and virtual events for different groups within the Concordia community, from International and Pan - Canadian conferences, Case Competitions Hackathons, to webinar series and intimate gatherings. Mariya is an early adaptor of all things technology; in the past year with the transition into virtual events, Mariya was on the planning team of the first international multi-day virtual conference hosted by Concordia - Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in 2020 and subsequently owned the planning of 4 other conferences and the first virtual Van Berkom case competition.
Sessions in which Mariya Georgieva participates
- Increase Engagement in a Virtual Event - CASE STUDY
- 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM | 40 minutes
- We will explore successful strategies implemented in Concordia-hosted virtual events this past year with like examples from CANHEIT Conference a...
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- Virtual Event Tools - 2020-21 Greatest hits
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Overview of tried and true tools used for Concordia events. See the pros and cons of online tools used for events Followed by an ASK ME ANYTHING...
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Sessions in which Mariya Georgieva attends
- Surviving and Thriving in the New Digital Future
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Don’t miss the plenary session w...

- Concept mapping for designing, engaging, and collaborating
- 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM | 25 minutes
- Concept maps are graphical representations of concepts and their relationships to each other. This session will introduce the use of concept map...
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- Electronic Signatures
- 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | 45 minutes
- RMA and IITS will soon launch DocuSign, a new electronic signature service. DocuSign allows users to approve, send, rec...
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- UNITY's HR Modules: Tips & Tricks and Q&A
- 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | 45 minutes
- Join UNITY’s HR specialists Anna Michetti and George Balouzakis to get your questions answered and to learn tips and tricks for working with UNI...
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- Demystifying Hybrid Events
- 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | 25 minutes
- As events are slowly returning face to face (F2F), we know that there are now opportunities to capture greater audiences, have remote experts jo...
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- Web Accessibility Basics
- 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | 45 minutes
- Want to understand how you can make your web presence more accessible? This presentation is for you! You'll learn about our current status in te...
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- VPSS Launch of the Sustainable Virtual Event Guide
- 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM | 25 minutes
- As part of Concordia's sustainability mandate, and in collaboration with key stakeholders across the university, Hospitality Concordia and the O...
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- What's in it for me: A guide to Microsoft 365 applications and their use cases
- 11:45 AM - 12:10 PM | 25 minutes
- This session will give attendees an overview of MS 365, some of the applicatio...
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- Writing for the Web: Boot Camp
- 12:00 PM - 12:55 PM | 55 minutes
- Write content for your web pages that visitors will actually read. Learn how to leverage the psychology behind reader behaviour to craft strateg...
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- Your Expense Reports in UNITY: Tips & Tricks and Q&A
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Join UNITY’s finance specialists Lyne Bouret and Frederick Clayman to get your questions answered and to learn tips and tricks for working with ...
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- Making Accessibility Accessible: Tips to Try and Examples Applied
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- This session will address the topic of accessibility and explore why making co...
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- Tag me! : Leveraging Microsoft 365’s tagging and assigning functions to manage projects across units
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- This presentation will provide a brief overview of the tagging and assigning functions found within Microsoft 365 products and will highlight be...
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