Fete 2025 Committee
Making Fete happen is a team effort involving many different talents. Below are a few people who have taken on the leadership role in addition to all the millions of things they were already doing to make the world a better place. If somebody is missing from this list, please let Pavan Singh know.
Below are the key values that this team shared in the presentation to the MAPPAA board on Feb 10th.
1. Honesty: We are honest about how much we can give and contribute. We are also honest about why we are volunteering and how we want to feel at every step, including at the end of this effort.
2. Transparency: We are open about the commitment that a task or a work stream might take. And we are also open about what energizes us when volunteering for this effort
3. Realistic Optimism: We dream big for this community, this team, and ourselves. But we also define what can be realistically done and do it to the best of our capability and capacity.
If you would like to recognize any of them either together or separately for their efforts, we invite you to post something on the Fete Gratitude page.
If you have not signed up to attend the fete yet, please register here.
| Role |
Names |
Key Responsibilities |
| Class reps engagement and delegate invitation |
Jamie Trevino |
Inspire and support class reps to invite delegates from their classes |
| Volunteer at large |
Anonymous volunteer 1, Anonymous volunteer 2 |
Tickets, website, venue, finances (and prod Pavan when he is missing the obvious) |
| Overall and co-chair |
Pavan Singh |
Overall vision, direction and support work stream leads as needed |
| Overall and co-chair |
Niels Gott |
Overall vision, direction and support work stream leads as needed |
| Logo |
Roger Irwin |
Create the logo and support initiatives using the logo |
| Fete ignite presentation and AI workshop topics |
Iris Cai, Ming Fu |
Define and run the process of inviting speakers for the 10 min ignite (+ 90 min AI workshop)
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| Fete finances | Adrienne Keane | Point person for Fete finances and connection back to the MAPP Alum finances. |
| MAPP Alum web training | Kathryn Britton | Help the Fete leads come up speed on the Wild Apricot website |
| Sponsorships |
Bill Groner, Patti Stephen, Sahar Emambaksh |
Lead the sponsorship fundraising and interaction process |
| Seed and Shape campaign | Jessica Hart, Roger Irwin | Envision, define and drive the initial invitation for the community delegates |
| Event co-ordinator |
Stephany Touisgnant |
Be the point of contact for all things on the day of fete |
| Communications and outreach |
Ken Zhou, Daniela Cepeda |
Streamline the communications to the MAPP community across all the different areas. |
| Appreciative Inquiry process |
Louis Alloro |
Advise and support the appreciative inquiry process |
| MAPPy swag | Roger Irwin, Sophia Kokores, Jen Baron, Louis | Create the MAPPiest swag for Fete and beyond |
| Small Experiences on the day of Fete |
Molly Peterson |
Dream up and create experiences on the day of that will make the attendees feel special |
| Virtual Fete Co-Chairs | Sahar Emambaksh, Jessica Hart | Define and create the virtual fete experience alongside the in-person event |
| Virtual Fete Emcee |
Sahar and Jessica and hosts from the community willing to step in! |
We are a team of emcees working together in shifts to maintain a high-quality and diverse virtual experience |
| In-person Fete Emcee |
Niels Gott | |
| AI workshops facilitator guidebook and training | Louis Alloro | Create an amazing guidebook that will assist the Appreciative Jam facilitators through the process |
| Fete after-party | Sophia Kokores, Ken Schainman | Conceptualize and create an amazing experience to relax and celebrate after the 20th anniversary Fete |
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