Education Programme 2024

Have you considered the psychology of your events? Event Psychology is a niche area but a really exciting one, so join Kelly McCormack from The Event Psychologist, on a mission to provide the industry with digestible research and insight that can change the way your event runs, and the way you run your event.

Involving psychological thinking from Social Psychology, Positive Psychology, to Music Psychology. How psychology can help event professionals think more deeply about their attendees, more wisely about the design and environments they provide and to get a pat on the pack for factors they might already be naturally incorporating in their day to day.

This is step one in terms of How to Be an Event Organiser; getting into the minds of one!

Sam Murray is an intimacy coordinator, working on some of the most high profile film sets around the world. As part of her role she has become an expert in creating safe and trustworthy spaces, in the most extreme circumstances.

Here she shares how her experiences can support event organisers, and their delegates, in creating safer, respectful, and more inclusive spaces.

Rita Chandarana has been the creative spark behind hundreds of events as part of the leadership teammat eventologists and Event Trees. Here she discussed, with our own Neil Thompson, The Delegate Wranglers, what makes a great event, and what makes a great event organiser.

From entitled gen z-ers to campaigning millennials and out of touch baby boomers. More and more the industry is covering a widening age group in both the people that attend events, but also those that organise them. However, as with any look at demographics, things are never as simple – or as cliched. So, in this section we match up the mature and the spritely, the cynical and the naive, the technologically literate and the AI agnostic, and ask the audience to understand and appreciate the wonderful differences that can combine to make your event better.

The events industry is entering a new phase of inclusivity and accessibility. In a discussion that goes beyond accessibility and embraces all barriers to entry for event delegates and the organisers that support them, here we look to understand what modern accessibility and equity looks like.

Event organising is about content, but every now and then, that content needs a push. In this session, we look at how new technology, advanced production, and AV can add incredible results to event ROI. Bringing in the voices of the client, the creative agency, and the tech company, this is all about how a little theatre, can add a lot of value.