Nikolas Stepan
Co-Founder of GemArt, a cultural-arts institute in the Gemer region of Slovakia. Four years of festivals, wine tastings, gallery openings, Christmas markets and artisan workshops — 156 events delivered in 2025 with 20,000+ participants, in five working languages, with calm under seasonal peak load.
500-seat regional gastro festivals on the main public square — programming, permits, supplier panels, bilingual signage, on-the-day production.
GemArt: programming, venue contracts, supplier panels, budget, multilingual marketing, day-of production, post-event reporting across eight event categories.
Hand-blown glass, ceramics, silvering, painting. Half-day B2B team-buildings (8–20 people), B2C drop-ins, school programmes, multi-day intensives.
Multi-city couture tour through Prague, Budapest and Rožňava. Castle reconstruction site visits. Curated-pair wine tastings on a heritage estate.
Gallery openings with international guests — curated programmes, multilingual catering pairings, hospitality flow.
Stall maps, queue plans, cashless partnerships, vendor coordination. Cross-border guest pulls via bilingual road-edge signage.
Brief → budget → programme → pitch deck → contracts
Artisans, wine producers, caterers, venues, logistics — negotiated and managed
Municipal liaison, fire-safety sign-off, GDPR guest data, insurance, allergen logs
28+ social channels, campaign pages, partner co-marketing, multilingual collateral
Run sheets, vendor coordination, multilingual guest hosting, calm under peak load
Settlement, partner reports, learnings doc, references and repeat-business motion
Food events live or die on flow. The stall map, queue plan and cashless partner is half the production. Bilingual signage at the road edge is what actually pulls cross-border guests.