Terms

Entrance to the UK Festival Conference is free as long as have purchased a ticket to the evening ceremony.  However, there are a limited number of places available at the conference and demand is expected to be high. 

Once you have purchased your ticket please email conference@festivalawards.com with your name, organisation and which session you’d like to attend.  Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Tickets can be purchased here: https://ukfa-secure.ticketline.co.uk/

 

 

The UK Festival Conference – Gibson Showroom, 29-35 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1NJ

10:30am The Big Green Dream: featuring
Ben Challis(A Greener Festival),
Alison Tickell (Julies Bicycle)
Linnea Svensson (OYA Festival)

Does the environment really matter or is going 'green' just the latest live music bandwagon?

There is a growing realisation that sustainability makes economic sense. This session will provide an overview of the latest developments in the green world - identifying the key issues, looking at audience attitudes and presenting a range of new benchmarks to help festival organisers green their events. Speakers will include a key note introduction from Julie’s Bicycle, the UK's cross music initiative on climate change and a presentation from Linnea Svensson from Oslo’s OYA Festival on how they have dramatically reduced their environmental  impacts.

1:30pm The Future of the Great British Festival: featuring
Rob da Bank (Bestival)
Geoff Ellis ( T in the Park)
Andy Copping (Live Nation)
Chair Greg Parmley (Editorial Director, IQ Magazine)
Peter Edwards (Sponsorship and Brands Solution Director, IPC Media)
Duncan Reid (Ingenious)

It’s no longer enough to throw a few bands onstage in a field. With rising artist fees and escalating production costs, the stakes are getting higher in the festival industry, so how are new and established events alike setting themselves apart from the competition? How are festivals working more creatively with their promotion, partnerships and branding? And how is the festival experience evolving beyond its traditional boundaries? From external investment, to innovative USPs, we examine how to sustain the Great British festival.

2:30pm Threats to the UK Festival Market: featuring
Chair Alan McGowan (Associate Editor, IQ Magazine)
John Giddings (Festival Director, Isle of Wight Festival)
Martin Goebbels (APEX Insurance)
Bojan Boskovic (Festival Director, EXIT Festival)
Peter Elliot (MD, Primary Talent)
Richard Haswell (Festival Director, Summer Sundae)

If only it were just the impending recession that threatened the health of the summer music festival.  From increasingly unpredictable weather patterns to an audience flying south for warmer, cheaper climes, has promoting outdoor events ever been quite so risky? And with artist fees going up, and the scarcity of big names required to pull a crowd, are some acts wielding too much power?