Conference Moderator & Panel Host
Elma Smit is a London-based conference moderator and event host. She leads leadership summits, client conferences, industry panels and awards for organisations across financial services, technology, sport and consumer brands.
Her background is live broadcast, and it shows. Sessions start on time, run to length, and hold their shape when a panellist goes off-script or the schedule goes awry.
Clients book her because the conversation stays useful - even, and especially, under pressure.
TOPICS
Leadership and organisational change
Innovation and technology adoption
Women in business and inclusive leadership
High performance, drawn from elite sport
The commercial side of sport partnerships
Media, culture and the changing information landscape
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Multi-speaker sessions where the job is to get real answers, keep every voice in play, and land the session on message, on brand and on time. Elma prepares from the source material, not from a briefing note - which is why panellists tend to say more than they planned to. She moves easily between lateral and seemingly unconnected areas, unlocking insight in ways that build engagement rather than interrupt it.
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Holding a full-day or multi-day programme together: opening, linking, managing the room's energy across sessions, and absorbing the schedule changes that can do with a deft touch.
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One-on-one conversations with senior leaders, politicians, sportspeople and specialists, where the value is in what gets said rather than in the format.
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Evenings that need pace, warmth and a safe pair of hands in front of virtually any audience, in any mood. Virtual and hybrid. Broadcast experience translates directly to being comfortable talking to camera, including in green-screen studios with no live audience to feed off.
What she does
