KARLSRUHE, Germany (VIP NEWS) — YOROPE – The European Festival Association is inviting festival organizers, event professionals, and other interested stakeholders to participate in the European Festival Summit, scheduled for November 18-20 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The event aims to bring together leaders from the festival industry and experts from various fields, including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and climate research, to discuss the future of festivals in Europe.
YOUROPE, a key organization representing popular music festivals across Europe, has organized the summit with a focus on making festivals more resilient and sustainable. The event is designed to provide attendees with opportunities to network, share knowledge, and explore ways to enhance the festival sector.
The summit will feature a diverse program of panels, presentations, interactive sessions, and keynote interviews. Topics will include the future of the festival sector, the impact of extreme weather, the role of AI and cybersecurity in festivals, and the social and environmental responsibilities of these events.
Some of the session topics announced include:
– The future of the festival sector
– Festivals and Generation Z
– Festivals’ role in society
– Independent festivals
– Extreme weather at festivals
– Festivals and AI
– Festivals and cyber safety
– The social responsibility of festivals
– The impact of festivals on the climate and vice versa
– European funding for festivals
– The importance of “live”
– and many more
A number of speakers have already been confirmed for the event, including representatives from Roskilde Festival in Denmark, A Greener Festival in the UK, and the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. Additional speakers and participants are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Holger Jan Schmidt (pictured), General Secretary of YOUROPE, highlighted the significance of the summit:
“Within our network, we have spent the past three years looking at the resilience, responsibility and relevance of festivals from a variety of perspectives in our project ‘3F Future-Fit-Festivals’. Now is the perfect time to bring the European festival family and experts from the wider sector to the same place to delve deeper into these topics and also to set a path for the future together. We are looking forward to 48 fantastic hours in Karlsruhe with leading professionals from live events, science, and specialized areas. The summit’s program is coming along excellently and will be exceptional and inspiring.”
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