Gitte Tønner, M.Sc., DC. President, The Netherlands’ Chiropractors’ Association
As Host Association Team Leader and Convention Academic Organizer for the European Chiropractic Union, I’ve been involved with international convention organizing since 2010. During this time, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working with Babette Schmidt - before she started Your Conference Support - over a 4 year period.
Because my time in convention organizing has been both with and without Babette from Your Conference Support I cannot overstate the contrast between those two situations.
To organize any major event is hard work, but Babette from Your Conference Support makes it enjoyable as well. She has clear lines of communication and is fast to solve any challenges. She delivers on her promises, she’s on time and efficient. Truly, she goes the extra mile to make everything go smoothly and has an overall courteous and cheerful contact with delegates, vendors and sponsors. She knows the language and the trade from the inside, meaning that negotiating contracts with venues and hotels is spot-on for conditions, extra’s and pricing.
Overall, Babette Schmidt from Your Conference Support is a professional at her job and made my job infinitely easier and more enjoyable. I cannot recommend this company enough.
Professor Bruno Brando - Past President of the European Association for Clinical Cell Analysis
I would like to thank you once again for your help and support: a kind of work that has gone beyond a mere professional behaviour, and we all felt that.
Ineke Slaper-Cortenbach, biomedical consultancy
I have had the pleasure to work with Babette Schmidt when organizing an international scientific meeting in 2010 with participants and speakers from all over the world. The services she and her team provided were as agreed and beyond. Their expertise was greatly welcomed by the organizing committee, who already had experience in organizing meetings in the past. Babette and her staff were very successful in arranging the perfect meeting location, dealing with the planning, budgeting, marketing, registration, abstracts and programme book, and last but not least the sponsor management. They updated the organizing committee on all aspects of the meeting and solved issues quickly and smoothly. They proposed a perfect dinner location for all delegates to come together in a very pleasant and informal atmosphere.
Their professionalism was greatly appreciated, not only by the organizing committee but all delegates expressed their gratitude in the final evaluation forms at the end of the meeting. Sponsors were extremely appreciative of the way they organized the exhibition and the multiple options they were granted to have contact with the delegates. Their outstanding organizational skills and their open and friendly attitude throughout the entire meeting were inspiring for all participants.
ln conclusion, the support of Babette and her team was superb from the start of the organization of the meeting till the completion of the meeting arrangements. I wholeheartedly recommend their services to you and your organisation.
Marius Hupkes, Laywer (LL.M), founder, hupkes advocaten c.s., Amsterdam
Babette is a passionate professional in Congress organizing. She is accurate and persistent, and fun to work with. Her clients don’t have to worry: Babette takes care of all details, without losing the overall picture. When you plan to have an international congress for your organization anywhere in the world, Babette is the best.
Katherina Psarra, MSc, PhD - Past President of ESCCA (European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis), President of the Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry – Clinical Biochemistry, President of the Hellenic Cytometry Society; Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
I know Mrs Babette Schmidt since she began working for ESCCA in 2009 when she organised the ESCCA Conference in St. Etienne. We understood then Babette’s great efficiency. In fact efficiency and results are the words characterizing her. Great responsibility, commitment and dedication would not fall short as their description. She is proficient, friendly and understanding dealing with so many different kinds of people, coming from different cultures and backgrounds, arriving from all over the world to our congresses.
As a member of ESCCA board since 2009 and as ESCCA president from 2015-2018 I have admired her ability to overcome any difficulty and their determination to achieve the set tasks and goals.
It is a pleasure and a honour for me to recommend Babette Schmidt and her company for work in any institution.
Dolores Subirá, Flow Cytometry Unit, Hospital de Guadalajara, Spain
Now that the ESCCA meeting is over, I´d like to let you know how much I appreciate your work. Having everything under control dealing with so many different people from different countries is a real challenge. Your clear e-mails, concise requests with time enough to complete them, and reminders have indeed facilitated my participation in this ESCCA meeting. You make things look very easy.
John-Erik Hassel, InstruNor, Norway
(exhibitor at a conference exhibition organised by Babette Schmidt in 2013, 2014 and 2018)
We are very happy with the great service we always receive from you. You are always returning to us quickly and try to find the best solutions possible for us. If you need a reference, let us know! You can quote us on that.
Dr. Alfonso Blanco Fernández - Director of Flow Cytometry, Associate Professor, UCD - Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dear Babette,
This year [2011] we have organized together the 7th European Clinical Cytometry Course and the 11th Euroconference on Clinical Cell Analysis in Dublin and worked closely with you for more than a year. I have to say that working with you has been a real pleasure. You are the kind of person that everybody wants to work with as you are brilliant, highly efficient, extremely well organized and a fantastic organizer. You were able to get the maximum on every single occasion. I couldn't imagine that you will make the organization of our meeting and courses that simple. A huge percentage of the success of these events was because of you and what you have done with and for us. On top of all this, you have a great sense of humour, which makes our relationship really fluent.
In summary, Babette, you are the kind of person I have not a single doubt on recommending to any friend or colleague as I know they will be extremely satisfied with you and your service.