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Showstop®: A global event safety standard

26 Feb 2025
Main Stage
Main Stage

Showstop®: a global event safety standard

Steve Allen and Dr Mark Hamilton are internationally recognized experts in crowd safety and event security, with decades of experience in major events and global touring. The panel will contextualise the Professional Certificate in Showstop® Procedure course, designed to enhance safety protocols at large-scale events.
The Showstop® course was created in partnership with the Pink Bows Foundation, an organization committed to educating, raising awareness and promoting crowd safety following the Astroworld tragedy in 2021. This global effort enables event organizers to implement proven, tested and approved emergency procedures for their events and prevent future tragedies.
Showstop Procedure course directors are Steve and Mark who were appointed as Defence expert witnesses on the Astroworld case, where Madison Alexis Dubiski and nine other fans tragically lost their lives during a Travis Scott performance. Hundreds of other fans were casualties. The Houston Police Department investigation concluded that ‘All ten deaths and injuries, sustained at the 2021 Astroworld Festival could have been prevented’.

Pink Bows Foundation® was established in honour of Madison, who at the age of 23, died at the Astroworld music festival. The foundation is spearheading the effort to make available this first of its kind course which aligns with our primary safety objective, to improve the safety of audiences at concerts, festivals and other events. The course, created by Steve and Mark, is informed by their long-standing depth and breadth of expertise in this arena.
Pink Bows Foundation is launching the first training and certification course in Houston, Texas, USA in March 2025. The first UK course will be in April 2025.

Conal Dodds, Crosstown Concerts, brings historical context and a UK promoter's perspective.
Steve Durham, We are FSTVL Director, brings a festival organiser’s perspective.

Speakers
Conal Dodds, Promoter / Director - Crosstown Concerts
Graham Brown, Panel Host - Brown Fox Comms
Mark Hamilton, Director - Showstop®
Steve Allen, Director - Showstop®
Steve Durham, Director - We Are FSTVL

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