unicon - General Manager

Role: Group Project - General Manager

Year: October 2020 - June 2022

Outcome: 2 Events with over 250 participants

Landing Page: unicon.berlin

Unicon is a student-led initiative that aims to facilitate a platform for students to gather and connect around digital products, entrepreneurship and design. We raised our funds and invited experienced professionals as speakers. For unicon22, my team elected me as general manager.

My role

In my role as the general manager, I motivated the team through goal setting and aligning everyone on a shared vision and mission, setting OKRs and tracking KPIs for our team's success. I developed our team from a hierarchical structure with departments to a more holacratic, self-managed organisation.

This change in structure increased our efficiency and overall team satisfaction, as organising an event depends on information sharing and has a relatively strict chronological order. We increased team engagement and productivity by adopting a more flexible team-organisation approach.
Besides this fundamental organisational transformation, I was in charge of Finance and communication with essential stakeholders, like CODE, Factory and most of the food and drink sponsors like Red Bull and FairAfric.

I am very proud of these achievements and the challenges we overcame as a team during these years of organising this fantastic event.

If you are interested in joining next year, visit unicon.berlin