Eventing The Future Conference Comes To Claudelands

Eventing The Future Conference Comes To Claudelands

Professionals in the events field will gather in Hamilton this week for their annual conference: “Eventing The Future” run under the banner of The New Zealand Association of Event Professionals (NZAEP).

“It’s a great way to showcase the industry in this country and we are very fortunate this year with the quality of speakers we have for the conference,” said Peter Burley, Director Eventing the Future Conference. .

“Eventing The Future has been running for 11 years and is the industry conference,” Burley said.

“It was set up in the response to in-service training and as a way of showcasing the industry and developing it for graduates of the Diploma In Event Management,” he said.

The two-day conference will be held at the Claudelands Showgrounds new events centre on Thursday and Friday (July 28 and 29).

Ian Taylor from Taylor Made Productions and ARL (Animated Research Limited) will be an exciting closing keynote speaker to the Conference this year.

The cross-over between the virtual worlds of entertainment and animation, which Taylor is famous for, and the future direction of the event industry will be an exciting part of his presentation.

Taylor will talk about this cross-over, audiences and what they want and how to make links to virtual worlds and being able to enhance events in this way.

Another keynote speaker will be Charlotte DeWitt who is one of the earliest truly internationally recognised event managers.

She dabbled in the Edinburgh Festival and was a key architect of the fringe movement. She heralds from Boston USA, is the only IFEA International Hall of Fame recipient to date and has a truly global understanding of events and event delivery.

Waikato’s Dallas Fisher is a successful entrepreneur in his own right. He has involvement in Montana, Rhythm and Vines and FP2 Conferences. His perspective on the industry and his insights are keenly sought after by event managers in the industry.

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Barry McNamara has a particular story to tell about Wintersun. It is a sobering tale about what happens when events and locations become intertwined and when there is an expectation that the event will stay put, not move into other locations or as the case here move out to a new location and new state altogether. Much like the debate around the Ellerslie Flower Show. McNamara will take us through this events demise in one location, the pain and loss this caused and its ressurenction in another.

The arts sector in New Zealand has cottoned onto the fact that arts and events are good bed fellows. One leads to another and many arts organisations are leveraging off events particularly around the Rugby World Cup 2011. Adam Hayward will be able to tell us how he does this even in among the disasters that have impacted Canterbury.

Alcohol and its management at events is becoming a science and there is much at stake. Many events are now having external pressure applied to them to smarten up their act and institute policies that will reduce this problem. Tom Mayo of the Volvo Ocean Race, James Kernohan of the NZ Police and Andrew Galloway will talk about the strategies that work to make an effective change in the drinking culture.

The Seher movement and events in India are a big deal indeed. They showcase India in different ways taking the events into outdoor settings, they are spreading this event approach around the world and Seher has recently been at the Edinburgh Festival.
Among the speakers at the Claudelands Conference will be the originator of this event, Sanjeev Bhargava, and he is supported in this trip by the Asia NZ Foundation who have been a on-going supporter of the Conference and events with a cultural component and messages about the changing nature of New Zealand society and the resultant need for change in the nature of our events .

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