Series 3
the future of events
Series Three of Surroundscapes “The Future of Events,” seeks to explore how events like concerts, theatre, conferences, trade shows, product launches, fashion shows and more – are surviving in the time of COVID. How will this affect how they change and evolve in the post-pandemic world?
Episode 7
Claudia Holmeier
APRIL 6, 2021: Claudia Holmeier (Co-Founder – Digitalanalog Festival)
Music and video festivals – in-person to streaming, and the future. Claudia and her husband Stefan founded the Digitalanalog experimental music and video festival in Germany 20 years ago. Over time, this has grown and evolved. However, in 2020 because of COVID, they held the festival as a virtual event. Claudia discusses the good and the bad points of doing this and how this will change the festival moving forward.
Episode 6
Dena Lowery
MARCH 30, 2021: Dena Lowery (COO – Opus Events)
Patten Studio is a leader in creating remarkable experiences fusing technology and art to create installations such as a 100-foot interactive video wall for Intel’s CES booth, kinetic instruments for Björk, a SuperBowl halftime show and much more. Dr James Patten talks about his time at MIT Media Lab and how it led to the creation of a company delivering experiences melding sound, light and movement with technology throughout the world.
Episode 5
James Patten
MARCH 23, 2021: James Patten (Founder and CEO of Patten Studio)
The use of technology to rekindle events. James has supplied cutting-edge technology solutions for events such as the Super Bowl, CES exhibition booths, fashion shows, product launches and more. He discusses various ways that this technology can be used to create more memorable virtual experiences and how these will influence events after the pandemic.
Episode 4
Liz Berry
MARCH 16, 2021: Liz Berry (Director – Hologramica)
The use of video holograms for next-generation events. Liz has had an incredibly successful and varied career as a moving-light technician, lighting designer and creative director, and more recently video holography expert and manufacturer of Holonet. She discusses how video holography is transforming both events and corporate videoconferencing.
Episode 3
Julien Lemaitre & Kevin Hinds
March 9, 2021: Julien Lemaitre & Kevin Hinds (Pure Sets)
Pivoting your business during COVID and new forms of livestreaming. Julien and Kevin have a very successful film production company but pivoted due to the pandemic as film sets were shut down to form a now highly successful company providing COVID monitoring and testing and PPE for film sets. Having been involved in some of the most innovative livestreamed concerts, they discuss how this will influence live concerts once these are possible again in-person.
Episode 2
Simon Honywill
MARCH 2, 2021: Simon Honywill (Audio Consultant – Glastonbury Festival)
The future of festivals and live concerts. Simon has been a live sound engineer for over 40 years covering events from 100-stage festivals and some of the largest classical events, to the closing ceremony of the London Paralympics and much more. He talks about how things are likely to change as live events finally are able to be staged again.
Episode 1
Dave Labuskes
FEBRUARY 23, 2021: Dave Labuskes (CEO – Avixa)
The future of trade shows and the state of the AV industry. Avixa is the AV industry trade organization as well as the organizer of the largest trade shows worldwide for our industry.