Speakers

Miranda has run B2B and B2C exhibitions, events, and festivals for over 15 years, moving to ‘the dark side’ (recruitment!) in January ‘24. She’s an events person through and through, starting out hustling tickets to nightclubs at age 14! Her first ‘proper job’ was in sales at SME London, launching the Independent Hotel Show (IHS) and running the British Fashion Council’s London Fashion Week and British Fashion Awards hospitality programmes. Six years and five promotions later when the Independent Hotel show was acquired by Montgomery, Miranda went with it as Event Director. She became Portfolio Director of the Experiences Division, geo-adapting IHS in Amsterdam, running The Pub Show, and leading on a global rollout plan for IHS. After 10 years at the Independent Hotel Show, she left to explore the world of outdoor music festivals, joining Brand Events as Festival Director of Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park food and music festival tour, attracting 130K visitors annually. She left as CEO after an exhilarating and intense schooling in the business of music promotion and outdoor consumer festivals. She is now Managing Director of tfconnect; leading specialist events industry talent consultancy, where she works with businesses and individuals to help place great people across the full events eco-system. Miranda has successfully launched, developed, commercialised, and delivered a broad spectrum of live event and entertainment products. She has scaled a business to sell. She is experienced at working with IP, major brands, talent, music agents and business leaders; to create and execute quality products that excite the end user and foster their loyalty. She loves working with people and is known for building exceptional teams. Commercial at the core, empathetic in delivery, her mission is to inspire and connect people through memorable and meaningful experiences.