From the earliest stages of planning, it was clear we were in the most capable hands with Opening Doors & Venues. The team became a valued extension of our organising committee, bringing clarity and structure to what can be an overwhelming process.

Their support was crucial to all aspects of the event, from managing budgets and liaising with the venues to preparing the schedule for our scientific programme. Their attendance at every committee meeting kept us on track, and we felt supported in making key decisions.

At the conference, the OD&V team was efficient and proactive, ensuring every delegate felt welcomed and looked after. Their commitment to excellence helped us deliver a professional, well-executed event that left a lasting impression on our community.

We would recommend OD&V to anyone seeking a trusted, experienced PCO partner for their event. Their involvement gave us confidence, and they played a huge role in the success of our conference.

"It was such a pleasure to work with you on our Meeting. We speak the same language and have the same feel for quality that's great and has resulted in this beautiful Meeting.”

"The Team at OD&V, headed up by Madalina and Celia, were a great support and invaluable resource for us, full of good ideas and helpful advice. We managed the first hybrid conference, at their suggestion, which felt very inclusive with delegates from around England and Wales, those with caring responsibilities, suspected COVID cases and those with last minute high workloads. This also reduced cancellations as delegates were able to move seamlessly from in person to remote attendance. The IT platform worked very well indeed and their preparation for this was calm and skilled.  They were invaluable in taking the decision to adjourn the conference which was a significant step to take and could have gone horribly wrong, but it didn't. They are easy to work with, respectful and always engaged. I would not hesitate to recommend them and we definitely could not have staged the conference that we did without them.”

"Rose, Madalina, Sarah, and Celia at Opening Doors & Venues Ltd provided valuable support to host our academic conference in a hybrid format, with speakers and delegates participating from around the world. They were unfazed by the short preparation time, provided an excellent online platform, and surpassed expectations in the level of service they provided. Their professionalism, enthusiasm, and personal warmth contributed greatly to the success of the conference."

"Working with the team at Opening Doors & Venues on our conference #CMV2022 was an absolute pleasure from the very first meeting to the last talk of the conference. We had to rapidly refocus our meeting from an in-person to a virtual conference, Rose and her team, who had substantial expertise in running this sort of meeting, were invaluable in helping us focus on what we required and identifying and working with an online platform and developer for the virtual meeting. The team also handled all of our speaker invitations, submissions of talks, speaker training sessions, and running of green/speaker-ready rooms during the sessions, in addition to all the work around the posters session as well as all correspondence with delegates' inquires. Their support and involvement in developing the programme and abstract book in addition to negotiations with sponsors were absolutely invaluable. We had a fantastic experience working with the team, who delivered a professional and very successful conference, I would have no hesitation in working with them again in the future."

"Another year and another awards has gone by, and weren’t we FANTASTIC!!!  Thank you all for your efforts to bring this event together and help and support the celebration. Like Worcestershire Apprenticeships it’s such a team effort and I AM proud of us all for making it happen,  Kate and Madalina (OD&V) we know it’s more than your day job."

"I just wanted to send you a quick note to say that it was so lovely to meet all of you. Thank you for all the hard work and for making the conference such a great success. You were all so friendly and helpful and were always there to lend a hand, solve a problem, and come to our rescue. You are all appreciated. Thank you!!!!!"

"ODV have just organised our annual conference. How can I describe ODV? Basically, if you imagine your best, most trusted, and talented friend having totally your back and organising the most important event of the year for you, that’s the kind of relationship you want to have with your event organisers. And that is exactly what ODV does. They are lovely people. They are human and you can have a great chat with them and they totally have your back and behind the scenes while you are getting on with what you need to do at the conference they are just running the entire show for you. It’s having that trust that they are going to do it and do a great job and that is exactly what they have done for us this year. Thank you so much."

"We have just finished our annual conference which has been absolutely amazing. And that is in the very large part due to Opening Doors and Venues who have been absolutely fantastic. Not just during the 3 days of the conference but also in the run-up, the organisation, the months of work they have put in behind the scenes and it has been a fantastic event. I would like to say thank you to them all."

"It's a wrap! An enormous thank you to an amazing team who have worked tirelessly over a long period of time to deliver another extremely successful virtual conference for #bmla2021. It's not the same as a face-to-face meeting for sure, but all the attendees certainly appreciated all our efforts to make it as friendly and personal as possible in the circumstances. Congratulations!"

"You are such professionals to work with - and lovely people too - and by being supremely organised you make my job so much easier!
From the moment I met Rose at an initial planning meeting I was impressed with her attention to detail, professionalism and manner. I am very fortunate to have worked with OD&V on several occasions since and look forward to the next time."

"Rose and Madalina brought a calm and highly organised professionalism to everything that they did. They [...] instinctively understood when we needed them to 'hold our hands' and when they needed to create space for us to explore new ideas and thinking. They helped us to shape the content, design the marketing strategy, interpret our messages and more impressively, get 'beneath the surface' of the issues we wanted to present to our delegates. They were first class by any and every measure, and I would have no hesitation in unreservedly recommending them to other organisations, whatever their field. I don't take for granted the excellent prep work that Rose and Madalina do for the speakers and contributors pre-conference."