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  • GCMA Webinar: Harm Reduction…Solution or Enablement?
    • 8/21/24

    GCMA Webinar: Harm Reduction…Solution or Enablement?

    Join us for the next edition of our "The Focal Point", GCMA's quarterly webinar series. We'll tackle the critically important but sometimes contentious issue of harm reduction at festivals and other live events.

  • GCMA Webinar: Don't Let Barriers Be A Barrier!
    • 5/23/24

    GCMA Webinar: Don't Let Barriers Be A Barrier!

    From entry queue to stage, barriers are a ubiquitous part of the event landscape. Understanding the types, use, and limitations of various barrier styles can have a profound impact on crowd safety and enjoyment. Join GCMA as we assemble a crack team of panelists to discuss current trends in barrier use, new technologies, creative tips, and more.

  • Smoke From a Distant Fire: Planning for Wildfire, Heat, and Other Climate Challenges
    • 2/23/24

    Smoke From a Distant Fire: Planning for Wildfire, Heat, and Other Climate Challenges

    "Unusual"... "extreme"... "unprecedented". The weather of today is pulling the rug right out of using past conditions as a means to prepare future expectations. What does tomorrow hold, and how will it impact our crowds and staff? Let's take what we should've seen a long time ago, lets stack up, slack up, and give reality a roll. Our events are under siege from weather like very few times before, and I'd just like to know.
  • Crowd Management… Artist Protection… Tour Security… what’s it all about?
    • 2/23/24

    Crowd Management… Artist Protection… Tour Security… what’s it all about?

    It’s often the case that music artists or their managers will hire a protective security team. This team may vary in size, roles, and responsibilities. Is there an argument that in this era an understanding of crowd management is necessary when providing protective services to music artists? What involvement should the artist's protective security team have around the crowd management of an event? Join me as I discuss my 30 years in the events industry providing protective security for artists, celebrities, and VIP’s & crowd management planning and operational management at events around the world and how the two have combined to enable me to operate at the highest level.
  • Training the Next Generation of Event Professionals: What Works and What Doesn’t
    • 2/22/24

    Training the Next Generation of Event Professionals: What Works and What Doesn’t

    As seasoned professionals in the event industry grow older, what are we doing to train people to take their roles? This is especially critical in the world of event risk management and crowd management which have traditionally been under-discussed at the university level. Ira Rosen has decades of experience in the event production industry and spent 15 years teaching event management at the university level, and he will suggest some practical strategies for ensuring a consistent stream of trained professionals.
  • An integrated approach to safe events with DIM-ICE
    2/22/24

    An integrated approach to safe events with DIM-ICE

    Event Safety Institute, based in The Netherlands and holding office in Australia, is known for its expertise in planning, preparing, and coordinating freely accessible public events in city centers. Throughout its nearly 10-year existence, ESI has been involved in many events like cultural exhibitions, sporting events, national celebrations, and even protests. ESI’s approach is characterized by making profound analysis, using Crowd Science models like the RAMP-analysis and the DIM-ICE risk model. In this presentation, ESI’s director Syan Schaap will show how the DIM-ICE model, that makes a clear distinction between three phases of an event and separately focuses on Design, Information, and Management components, helps to guide all stakeholders, public and private, in an integrated approach towards running a safe event. He will illustrate this with different examples, like a crowd of 150,000 cheering football fans turning up to honor their team as the national champions, and the vast crowds turning up for King’s Day and carnival celebrations in many Dutch cities.
  • Measuring Leadership through the Lens of Inclusivity
    • 2/21/24

    Measuring Leadership through the Lens of Inclusivity

    “If it doesn’t get measured it doesn’t get done.” We have heard this phrase used on multiple occasions across a variety of areas, well it applies to Inclusion too. For too long we have been told that Leaders should be Inclusive, that teams should be Inclusive and yes, so should departments and organizations. But in most organizations, there is no way to cleanly measure whether that Leader or Team actually are, that is until now. Attendees of this presentation will be introduced to the Inclusive Leadership Assessment™, a way to measure where a person is on their inclusion journey. Using live polling and a dedicated Q and A section this presentation will involve attendees in both the listening and the learning, leaving them with a deeper sense of where they are in their own journey and decisions to make in relation to which path towards inclusion they may want to walk.
  • In Conversation: The “Magic” of Crowd Safety
    • 2/21/24

    In Conversation: The “Magic” of Crowd Safety

    Crowd safety isn't magic - there are many complex decisions and lots of hard work to make it appear that way. Simon James and Tim Roberts of The Event Safety Shop will pick up their wands, reach into their top hats, and conjure a variety of topics sure to inform, surprise, and delight.
  • Operational Structures that Work
    1/16/24

    Operational Structures that Work

  • Data-Driven Approaches to Event Risk Management
    1/16/24

    Data-Driven Approaches to Event Risk Management

  • Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Risks
    1/16/24

    Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Risks

  • "Hello, it's Rishi here"........The Phone Call That Gave Martyn's Law the Green Light
    1/16/24

    "Hello, it's Rishi here"........The Phone Call That Gave Martyn's Law the Green Light

  • The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare For It: Advanced Concepts in Emergency Egress
    1/16/24

    The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare For It: Advanced Concepts in Emergency Egress

  • Understanding and Managing Fatigue in the Events Industry
    12/5/23

    Understanding and Managing Fatigue in the Events Industry

    In this informative session, GCMA member, Bryan Huneycutt of Halo Solutions will share practical insights and strategies to help event professionals recognise and address fatigue, ensuring the well-being and effectiveness of both individuals and teams. Building on the success of his papers, "Rock & Roll All Night: Understanding and Managing Fatigue" and "Gotta Sleep!", Bryan will delve deeper into the critical topic of Understanding and Managing Fatigue in the Events Industry.

  • GCMA Webinar - The Ex Factor: Crowd Management in the Gray Space
    9/5/23

    GCMA Webinar - The Ex Factor: Crowd Management in the Gray Space

  • Enforcement or Interpretation? Sports stadia and beyond
    12/8/22

    Enforcement or Interpretation? Sports stadia and beyond

  • The Collaborative Approach to Crowd Safety Planning & Management
    9/16/22

    The Collaborative Approach to Crowd Safety Planning & Management

  • Career vs Stop Gap: Recruitment & Retention
    6/9/22

    Career vs Stop Gap: Recruitment & Retention

    Want a career in crowd management? What do you need to know to “level up” in the profession, and what opportunities are available? This webinar will explore the myriad of pathways to becoming (and remaining) a professional crowd manager.

  • How to Write an Honest Crowd Management Plan...That Actually Works!
    4/5/22

    How to Write an Honest Crowd Management Plan...That Actually Works!

    A talking heads journey into the wonderful world of Crowd Management Planning covering approaches to a variety of projects through lived experiences. We are thrilled to be joined for our first Webinar by GCMA® Board and Advisors, Eric Stuart (UK), Anne Marie Chebib (UK), Jon Corbishley (Aus), Cathy Knowsley (NZ) and Chris Kerr (Canada), for global perspectives on how and why we plan.