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2025 Global Crowd Management Congress


🚀 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.

GO TO MEMBER REGISTRATION PAGE

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.

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