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Event Production Show 2025

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Dealing with Disaster on a Festival Site: Live Table-Top Session with The Fair

26 Feb 2025
The Knowledge Hub
The Knowledge Hub

Whether it be rail strikes, lightning storms, crowd control or medical emergencies – ‘major incidents’ are becoming increasingly common at events across the industry, which is why it is now more important than ever that we are best prepared to deal with them.

The Fair’s real-life Table Top session will put your knowledge and ability to the test, with ‘disaster’ scenarios that could happen at any given event.

You’ll hear first-hand from members of The Fair and We Are Placemaking’s event production teams, who have dealt with such ‘major incidents’ on site.

Listeners will leave with: expert advice on how to prepare for the worst in advance, and deal with it when it arrives.

Speakers
Cornelia Hammarlund, Senior Production Manager - THE FAIR
Liberty Taylor, Production Manager - THE FAIR
Millie Devereux, Production Director - THE FAIR
Will Garner, Senior Event Producer - We Are Placemaking