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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3332

Conference and event planners

Conference and event planners organize and coordinate services for conferences, events, functions, banquets and seminars. Tasks include - (a) promoting conferences, conventions and trade shows to potential customers; (b) responding to inquiries concerning services provided and costs for room and equipment hire, catering and related services; (c) meeting with clients to discuss their needs and outlining package options to meet these needs; (d) arranging and coordinating services such as conference facilities, catering, signage, displays, audiovisual and computer equipment, accommodation, transport and social events for participants, and logistical arrangements for presenters; (e) organizing registration of participants; (f) negotiating the type and costs of services to be provided within budget; (g) overseeing work by contractors and reporting on variations to work orders. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Conference and event organizer - Conference planner - Wedding planner

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 368 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • event assistant
  • event manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

52.2
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 47.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 47.8 = 52.2

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

47.7
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

23.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 28.6 · hand skill 28.6 · cramped spaces 13 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 47.7 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 65, while the average is 47.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 65

    Organizing registration of participants

    Medium
  2. 61.5

    Promoting conferences, conventions and trade shows to potential customers

    Medium
  3. 61.5

    Responding to inquiries concerning services provided and costs for room and equipment hire, catering and related services

    Medium
  4. 39.5

    Meeting with clients to discuss their needs and outlining package options to meet these needs

    Low
  5. 38.5

    Arranging and coordinating services, such as, conference facilities, catering, signage, displays, audiovisual and computer equipment, accommodation, transport and social events, for participants, logistical arrangements for presenters

    Low
  6. 35

    Negotiating the type and costs of services to be provided within budget

    Low
  7. 33.5

    Overseeing work by contractors and reporting on variations to work orders.

    Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
73
AI does it for you
53

Helping wins by 20 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1493

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.6. This one is below that.