Decision-Making during Events - how do we ensure we have the right information?
This half-day seminar will feature a keynote address from Lloyd Major (MSc) and Greg Horsford (MSc) from CREST Planning. His address will be followed by a panel session featuring Irish and international event industry professionals focusing on decision-making during events.
This is the 2nd in a new seminar series for people involved in events, curated by the Team at Safe Events.
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The Details
This event will be held in Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin city centre.
We will kick off at 10am and will be finished by 1pm.
Similarly to the first Talking Shop event, we will leave a good amount of time for the panel session, which will include scope for questions and input from attendees.
The Speakers
Lloyd is co-founder of CREST Planning. Both he and his co-founder, Greg Horsford, have significant operational event experience, occupying both high-level strategic and tactical roles within the Police force in the UK. Lloyd is recently retired while Greg continues to serve as a Superintendent in the Police.
Their address will look at decision-making during events and will introduce their 'Integrated Threat Management' approach, comprising 3 tools developed by Lloyd and Greg during their Masters research. Those tools include:
Mitigation Model
Crowd Tension Indicator
Integrated Threat Matrix
These tools are now taught to and utilised by senior UK Police Officers, charged with the safeguarding of hundreds of thousands of lives as well as across 27 EU nations, in Sierra Leone, Myanmar and beyond. They help us recognise crowd problems during events and facilitate informed decision-making through a shared vocabulary and more.
The address from Lloyd and Greg will feature
Hillsborough as a Case Study for crisis communications
Introduction to the 3 tools and their practical application
Another Case Study heading for criminal prosecution partly on the back of witness testimony provided by Lloyd at a Festival Licensing hearing
You will come away from this event knowing of some new tools that you might find useful on your own events whole also having a greater understanding of the potential ramifications of the decisions we make during our events.
The Panel
After his address, Lloyd will join the other panel members for a session that will look to develop on the themes he introduced and to discuss the challenges around making key decisions on events. There will be an opportunity here for attendees to put questions to the panel.
Confirmed panel members currently include: