Report: Event Safety @ IBIT Fachtagung 2023
In 2023, YOUROPE presented various panels, workshops and presentations at the 9th IBIT Conference on Event Safety. The conference is an annual event organized by the International Training Center for Event Safety (IBIT), run by long-time YES Group members Sabine Funk and Ralf Zimme. This report summarizes the learnings of the panels presented by YOUROPE.
Topics included: the Manchester Arena attacks and Project Duty, planning, managing and commanding complex security operations in crowded places, Zone Ex and why it is important, knowledge transfer between science and practice, international exchange, learnings from the Loveparade catastrophe, challenges in communicating event safety to Gen Z, the Event Safety Award of the European Festival Awards (EFAs), and the distinction between “safety” and “security.”