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Aaltoes Ecosystem & Events

Scaling student entrepreneurship with 100+ events / 10,000+ attendees

CommunityOpsPartnerships

Role

Head of Ecosystem, Producer, Partnerships

Tools

Figma, Notion, Linear, Analytics

Aaltoes Ecosystem & Events

Context

Europe's largest student entrepreneurship hub—Aaltoes—needed structure and scale to support growing community demands and maintain quality across 100+ annual events.

Strategy

Program design (Build It), partnerships (Supercell, Nokia, Hugging Face), volunteer system, and scalable event operations framework.

Execution

100+ events/year, end-to-end logistics, sponsor coordination, speaker operations, and community management across multiple platforms.

Impact

10,000+ attendees annually; Startup Crawl 1,200+ participants; 50+ partnerships coordinated; 40% increase in event quality scores.

Vaneeza Maqsood — Product Designer & Ecosystem Lead