Venue:
Novotel London Bridge, Room 2
September 10, 2025
11:00
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11:45
This workshop brings insights and learnings from the new Professional Certificate in Showstop® Procedure supported by The Pink Bows Foundation.
Emerging from the Astroworld tragedy, this course has provided training to more than 250 professionals on how best to implement immediate intervention to stop a live performance if there is a credible threat to life safety.
In the session, delegates will hear case studies from Paleo and Roskilde Festivals, the first two European festivals to train and implement the new procedure.
Crowd Safety
Steve has worked alongside his partner Mark Hamilton to pioneer the Showstop® Procedure Course with The Pink Bows Foundation.
He has 30 years of experience at festivals in roles spanning event safety control, festival security, or head of artist security, which saw Steve take multiple headline artists into festivals across the world.
Steve is also an expert witness, a fellow of the Institute of Risk and Safety Management, member of the UKCMA and the Global Crowd Management Alliance.
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Paléo Festival Nyon
Pascal Viot is head of the Department Safety, Security and Services at Paleo Festival, one of the major events in Switzerland. He also coordinates the YES Group (Yourope Event Safety Group) alongside Henrik Bondo Nielsen (Roskilde Festival).
As a sociologist and researcher in the field of risk and urban safety analysis, he has developed emergency and crisis management plans for major concerts/events. He also provides education programmes in this field through iSSUE (the Swiss Institute for Urban and Event Safety).
