LONDON – The ninth ILMC Production Meeting (IPM) is set to take place at the Copthorne Tara, Kensington on March 3, 2016. The organizers have announced details of the panel discussions planned for the event.
More details from ILMC (www.ilmc.com):
Panel this year will include:-
Panel 1:
Communication Breakdown (it’s always the same)
Examining how we can improve tour planning from the very first meeting to the moment “everything changes”, the panel will welcome a mixture of booking agents, promoters, managers and production experts to discuss how life can be made easier for everyone involved with the tour. How can communication be improved? How can both time and money be saved by those involved working more closely together?
Panel 2:
2,000 Light Years From Home
The all-inclusive international travel planning
Specialist knowledge of tour travel agents make them essential partners to Tour Managers in the planning of group hotel stays and moving artists and crew. Their business is getting tougher as airlines stopped paying agents commission and both travel and hotels can easily be booked direct by anyone via Internet. We will talk with the experts about touring travel/issues, including visa, permits, local languages and current challenges.
Panel 3:
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Trucking and bussing
It’s all about timing, and time is money. From EU driving hours regulations to increased border checks causing delays. Aimed at all stakeholders in tour planning, we will review the current state of play of the tour transport sector and it’s prognoses for the future. How does the industry deal with difficult tour city routings and tight schedules? Have any tours come unstuck due to police enforcing trucks to park up for break? How are tours affected by bans on weekend truck movements and cities with weight limit to transit and night restrictions or engine emissions? How regularly do tour trucks get targeted and fined – is it a tour cost? Is this covered by insurance? How can we do better together?
Panel 4:
Our House, in the middle of our street
(tackling the daily and progressing challenges of venue management)
From arenas and stadia to grass-roots venues, venue operators face similar challenges and have the same responsibility to provide a duty of care to their audience. But incidents such as the recent club fire in Bucharest and the attack at Le Bataclan in Paris are raising new questions about that duty of care. Including topics such as CDM, venue planning, and coping with ever-more complex inbound touring productions. The sessions are announced as organisers reveal that the ninth edition of the IPM will move to a new venue to cope with increased delegate demand. The move allows a 20% increase in delegate, to accommodate 250 of the world’s most renowned production managers; sound and lighting engineers; venue personnel; suppliers and promoters’ representatives.
Bryan Grant of Britannia Row will host the day and industry powerhouses include Christopher Uerlings, Keith Wood and Carl Martin
Supporters of IPM include eps, Etihad Stadium, EFM Event Logistics and Megaforce. Full event information, including registration, visit ILMC www.ilmc.com.
