The Future of Travel in the Festival Industry
Chris Johnson is the co-founder of Energy Revolution, a charity that compensates for carbon emissions incurred through festival travel. He is also a Director of Kambe Events, as well as the co-founder and chair...
Tackling Food Waste When Feeding Crew and Artists
Lou Fitzpatrick has extensive experience in festival and event management. With a passion for technology and problem solving, Lou is always looking for ways to streamline processes to make lives easier for event managers,...
How to Use Your Live Music Data to Turn a Profit
Janneke van Egmond is an editor and marketer at Eventbrite Benelux. With years of experience as an account manager in the event industry she knows what makes organisers tick (and what keeps them awake...
Can the Luxury Festival Truly Exist?
Georgia Black is the owner of Littlegig, a boutique festival just outside Cape Town, South Africa. Here she examines the trend of festivals increasingly trying to appeal to the well-heeled, top end of the...
Responding to People’s Emotional Needs in an Emergency
John Drury is Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. He has been conducting research on crowd behaviour for 25 years, including such crowd events as the Hajj at Mecca, the Hillsborough...
Recruiting for the Future
Andrew Harrison is Director of the Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA), a trade body representing contractors and suppliers to the exhibition industry. ESSA is run by its members for the benefit of its...
How to Price your Event and Boost Ticket Sales
Katie McPhee joined Eventbrite as the company's first UK hire, helped open Eventbrite's very first international office in London in 2011, and supported the growth of the UK and Ireland region into one of...
Four Security Tips for Your Events This Summer
Katie Torrance is the E-commerce Manager at First Fence, a frontrunner in the UK fencing and security supplies industry.
Every year over 7,000 major outdoor events are held in the UK, with over 85...
How to Win Stakeholders and Influence Them
Rob Tominey is CEO of Mainstage Festivals, a pioneering festival and travel company. Mainstage started with Snowboxx – now the fastest growing winter festival in Europe – and has since set up Kala Festival...
The 12 Step Plan for GDPR Compliance
Steve Jenner leads business development in the UK and Ireland for PlayPass, one of the world’s top providers of RFID solutions for cashless payments, crew accreditation & management and access control at live events....
