🚀 Get ready for the biggest conversation in global crowd management! 🌍✨
The GCMA Global Crowd Management Congress 2025 brings together world-leading experts to tackle the most pressing challenges in our industry. Three days of insightful discussions, practical strategies, and game-changing ideas—this is an event you won’t want to miss!
📅 February 18th, 19th & 20th
⏰ 1900 GMT (1400 EST, 1100 PST, 2000 CET)
🔗 Via Zoom
With huge thanks to our fantastic sponsors, Safe Events Global, The United Kingdom Crowd Management Association, Pink Bows Foundation and Showstop.
Supported by our brilliant partners: Event Safety Alliance, Event Safety Alliance Canada, and United Kingdom Crowd Management Association.
Registration is open to all current GCMA members. Follow the link below to register.
Program Agenda
📅 Day One – February 18th
👥 "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun..." – KT Sonnen, Becky Stevens, and Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip open the congress with a powerful discussion on gender in crowd management. Does gender make a difference? Are safe spaces appropriate for everyone? Why are women still the minority in the field, and how can we drive change?
🔍 Followed by Thyr Rodrigues with "The Face of Your Event", discussing how front-line staff contribute to safer, well-managed events.
📅 Day Two – February 19th
🔄 "Turning Hindsight into Foresight" – Eric Stuart QPM challenges us to move from learning from past incidents to actively preparing for future challenges.
🚧 "HVM – Lego or Legos? It's Semantics, Right?" – Russ Phillips explores the balance between effective risk management and cost efficiency in Hostile Vehicle Mitigation.
📅 Day Three – February 20th
🌏 Aholibama Castañeda González opens the day with "Cultural Awareness and Safety Impacts", exploring how understanding diverse perspectives enhances crowd safety and event planning.
🚨 The Show Stop Initiative – A powerful closing session with Steve Allen FdA MIFireE FIIRSM RSP & Mark Hamilton FdA MA (Dist.) HonD Univ (Pink Bows Foundation/Crowd Safety), focusing on critical stop-the-show decisions, intervention strategies, and protecting crowds when things go wrong.