Five Benefits of Onsite Training and Support
Frazer Grant is the CEO of EDCO Event Diligence. Grant and his team have been working with event professionals and their teams for over 10 years, providing professional support and engaging training across the...
Inspiring a More Responsible Audience
*This article is part of Insider Insights' Sustainable Summer series, in which we dedicate half of our monthly output to guidance on decreasing the environmental impact of festivals.
Nick Chambers is the co-founder and booker...
How to Make Your Campsites more Hospitable
Reece Miller is the Director of We Are FSTVL, the UK Festival Award-winning dance festival which has just added camping for its fastest selling year to date. Here he discusses how to make your...
The Drugs Do (Sometimes) Work: Sustaining EDM and the Festival Experience
Professor Duncan Wheeler holds the Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, where he also co-convenes the European Centre for European Popular Music(s). In 2016, he was inducted into the Spanish Academy...
On Hiring a Motley Crew
Jonathan Sigsworth is Managing Director of Gallowglass Crewing. With operational bases across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, Gallowglass supplies flexible trained and qualified manpower to venues all over the UK and Europe....
Festival Insurance and Three Other Necessities to Survive Cancellations
Jona Koekelcoren is Community & Customer Success Manager at BeatSwitch. Aside from this role he also dedicates his time to coaching artists, co-organising festivals and club shows, and was also assistant label manager at...
The Cashless System: Friend or Foe?
Having frequented many bars and festivals themselves, brothers Jonathan and Julian Gomma set up Beetle Juice in 2012 along with their best friend Harry Sloan to create a unique and truly mobile pop-up bar...
The Cashless Festival: Why 2015 will be the Tipping Point for the UK
Steve Daly is a co-owner and Head of RFID at ID&C- a leading security wristband specialist. He has a background in telecommunications start-ups and spent five years at PA Consulting, a London-based management consultancy....
Mixed Reality & Game Engines: Why you should be using this technology for your...
Mitchell Bayer-Goldman is Co-founder and COO of Volta XR, here he he discusses how performances can be enhanced by the application of existing technology.
Festival goers expectations are higher...
Looking at the bigger picture with event data
As festival season approaches, organisers, partners and sponsors are looking for new ways to measure the success of the festivalgoer experience and its effect on ROI. Caroline McGuckian, CEO of Meshh, discusses the importance...
