Operations

Masterclass: Dragon Con's Cherie Wren on Honing Your Event's Disability Access

Masterclass, Operations, Site Planning

For those living without a disability, the hugely important and complex task of making a major event disability-friendly might go unnoticed. It can be very easy to take accessibility for granted and to remain oblivious to the often subtle difficulties that make many events a challenge for those with disabilities. Cherie Wren is the head […]

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5 Festivals With Prime Locations For the Total Solar Eclipse

Operations, Site Planning

For stargazers, space enthusiasts and sun worshipping hippies alike, the August 21st total solar eclipse is one of the biggest events of the decade. In a 70-mile band stretching across continental America from Oregon to South Carolina, the sky will turn completely dark, the crickets will come out, and the expected millions of revelers will

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4 Ways RFID Can Help Horse Racing Modernize and Make More Money

Entry + Exit, Guest Experience, Operations, Technology, Vendor management

Every live event vertical is developing and adapting to the changing digital landscape. Music festivals have been converting en masse to RFID systems, heralding in the cashless era and fostering a more symbiotic relationship between the customer and the event via rich data. Sports events have also been empowered by this technology, giving them greater

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Scientists Have a Solution to Improve Event Line Lengths

Guest Experience, Operations, Site Planning, Vendor management

Belgian scientists Kurt Van Hautegem and Wouter Rogiest of Ghent University have discovered that the answer to improve event line lengths for bathrooms can be solved by redesigning the space in order to make them gender neutral. The scientists found that the average length of time females waited to use the facilities at festivals was

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MASTERCLASS: Funktion One Founder on Getting the Most Out of Your Festival's Sound System

Lighting / Sound, Operations

Funktion One. The ominous angular speaker stacks have become ubiquitous in the electronic music scene over the last decade, powering some of the world’s most renowned clubs and festivals. The company has an almost mythical status for being punchy yet smooth, immersive but never overwhelming or deafening. Funktion One founder Tony Andrew’s is a serious

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Boutique Festivals Innovate Too

Lighting / Sound, Operations, Site Planning, Vendor management

Production While lineups have stayed largely stagnant in many areas of the scene, the production standards have been continuously growing and evolving, transforming the look, feel and vibe of festivals. EDM’s meteoric rise imposed levels of terrifying grandiosity on the audience. These days people are yearning to see something more organic and human. The Do

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5 Things Every Festival Could Learn From EDC Las Vegas

Guest Experience, Lighting / Sound, Site Planning, Staffing / Team

Anyone that has ever come through the tunnel and onto the Las Vegas Speedway during Electric Daisy Carnival will attest, there’s no festival in the world that can match it for decadence. With twelve stages, eighteen fairground rides, and about 450,000 people, it’s one of the world’s biggest dance music festivals and celebrated its 21st

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MASTERCLASS: Decibel Founder Sean Horton on How to Throw an Inner City Festival

Logistics, Masterclass, Operations, Site Planning

Running a festival in a city is an entirely different beast than taking over a field in a rural area. The number of potential obstacles—ranging from angry neighbors to unresponsive mayors—can seem on the surface to be unreasonable and impossible to surmount. But the civic landscape can offer incredible diversity and potential if you have

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