During the IFEA's 56^th Annual Convention & Expo in Fort Worth, Texas in 2011, we explored risk management for events - "What keeps you up at night?" Continuing on from this step, the next logical step is to outline how your risk management plan informs the development of your Event Security and Safety Management Plan. During this IFEA Webinar, we will recap on the event risk management process including the "top 20 risks" shared by the attendees at the workshop from the IFEA Convention and then talk about the "nexus" between risk and security and safety management.We will conclude by outlining some best practices in Event Security and Safety Plans.  

While the Festivals we produce provide a greater quality of life and a substantial economic impact on our communities, it's also important to show your citizens and city leaders there is a charitable impact as well.  It helps strengthens that critical bond between the Festival and your patrons, provides excellent public relations opportunities and might just lead to an extra sponsorship dollar or two!  The Kentucky Derby Festival Foundation is the 501(c)3 charitable arm of the Kentucky Derby Festival.  It manages the charitable outreach of KDF and has a charitable impact of over $400,000 each year.  Jeff English, Sr. VP of Administration for the Kentucky Derby Festival, will explain how the Foundation works and will outline ways in which KDFF highlights its charitable impact to the community and city leaders.

All events and festivals have lifecycles. Building audiences - your event's lifeblood - during each of these phases faces its own challenges. A new event is a clean slate, but it's also when you invest the most to attract ticket buyers, participants, sponsors, vendors, and influencers. At the five-year mark, if the event survives, suddenly you've come of age. The next several years usually bring more growth, but it also means more innovation on your end. That innovation cycle, in both your event and how you market it, can mean the difference between an event or festival that has longevity and one that crashes and burns.

Learn what it takes to create festival and event fans of all your audiences - ticket buyers, sponsors, participants, vendors, partners, and even staff, along with those who influence them. Invest an hour with Gail Bower, event, marketing, and sponsorship strategist, in a strategic discussion about growing events - and event supporters - and come away with new ideas to inspire your 2013 events.

Managing municipal events can be both exciting and challenging at the same time. A successful event can raise the profile, prestige and citizen support for a city as a whole. At the same time it only takes one mishap or planning error to ruin an event, often leading to major financial, public relations and safety issues. The City of Ottawa's Events Central office represents a breakthrough in coordinated, repeatable events management. The model leverages a standing Special Events Advisory Team, documented processes and by-laws, and emerging citizen engagement technologies to design, implement and track each of its over 250 events per year.

This model has proven successful in managing both large national and international events such as the Ottawa Bluesfest, Winterlude, FIFA Games, Grey Cup and Canada Day celebrations, down to hundreds of local group, ethnic and community events. Ottawa won the IFEA Top City Award in North America for "Festival and Events City" 2010 (population 500,00 to 1 million). Ottawa was the first City to receive this Award. Delores Macadam, Manager of Events Central and Mark Ford, Inspector Ottawa Police, are the designers of the Ottawa events management program, they will retrace the city's journey to establish relations and standards across all entities in the city's events infrastructure. They will reveal key insights, best practices and potential pitfalls along the way.