Ben Vollans

Co-founder & Head of Chaos & Creativity @Your First

Leeds, GB

Helping shake up the events industry by building bold, community-driven projects with a focus on collaboration over competition.Current projects include:🟢 Beyond the Brochure - A first-of-its-kind venue and supplier showcase experience. We bring buyers directly into venues to explore multiple spaces in a single, streamlined trip - cutting out endless meetings, emails, and brochures. It\'s about making real connections, not collecting PDFs.🟢 Diverse Cumbria Awards - Celebrating the individuals, businesses, and organisations making real change in equality, diversity, and inclusion.🟢 Drinks Networking Series - Monthly casual networking for event and hospitality professionals. No suits required, just good people and great venues.🟢 YESS: Events Sustainability Podcast - Championing sustainability in the events industry through real conversations, practical insights, and stories from people making change happen. The podcast is just the start - we\'ll be back with a physical event in 2026.🟢 DMChina (Digital Marketing China)- A two-day event for anyone looking to tap into China as a consumer market, with a focus on how to do it through digital marketing. We\'re bringing together experts from both sides of the world for panels, workshops, and networking-plus a podcast to keep the learning going beyond the event.My role?Bringing the ideas, making the plans, sorting the logistics, and keeping the chaos creative (and the creative just the right amount of chaotic).

QC School of Event Planning

International Events and Wedding Planner