Green Events & Innovations Conference - Festivals, Touring, & Humans!

Almost 2 weeks to go until #GEI12, 3rd March at the Royal Garden Hotel, London.

We're very excited as we welcome a host of amazing and inspiring speakers and activists to join the fold!

TANNER WATT is Director of Partnerships for REVERB which has had no shortage of headlines in recent months for their efforts to help major artists go green on tour! Tanner leads the organization's efforts in Artist, Non-Profit and Brand partnerships and also leads the on-tour greening and fan action efforts for Jack Johnson's global touring efforts, plus developed partnership campaigns with UNEP, NRDC, The Environmental Defense Fund, plus the #ROCKNREFILL program with Nalgene USA eliminating the use of over 3.5 million single-use water bottles at live music events and raised over $2.3 million (US) to support the work of non-profits.

Based in the US, REVERB has worked with some of the biggest names in music for more than 15 years, include Jack Johnson, Shawn Mendes, Billie Eilish, The 1975, Tame Impala, Harry Styles and many more. The purpose - to create and execute environmental impact reduction programs and engagement campaigns, connecting fans with the causes that matter to their favorite artists. 

We welcome Tanner to share his tales from the greener road, joining Tom Chauncy of Partisan Arts during A Greener Tour - Round 2! at #GEI12, hosted by Gordon Masson from IQ Magazine.

This session is supported by Forum Karlin & Metronome

PANEL: FOCUS ON FESTIVALS - THE LIVING LAB OF LIVE

Presented by International Green Deal

This sessions draws upon a wealth of knowledge and insight from a selection of speakers who are relentless protagonists in the festival scene, pushing for sustainable solutions and actions for the live events industry to learn from.

Green Events & Innovations Conference organiser and Co Founder of A Greener Festival (AGF), (yours truly :) Claire O'Neill moderates GEI12's Focus on Festivals.

Festival director of the A Campingflight To Lowlands Paradise festival (aka Lowlands). Lowlands is a 3 day camping festival with 60.000 visitors per day established over 25 years ago.

Eric van Eerdenburg, also known as Mr. Lowlands, is a archetype festival director. He brings to the job a vast amount of experience and a familiarity with the challenges that are part of the handling of a large scale music event. At the same time he maintains an awareness of both the ups and the downs experienced by both artists and audiences. Besides festival director, Eric is member of the management team of Mojo Concerts.

Mojo Concerts promotes about 200 shows, a dozen major festivals ( inc. North Sea Jazz Festival, Pinkpop, Down The Rabbit Hole and WOO HAH! ) and books about 2000 clubshows per year in the Netherlands. 

We are extremely excited to hear about the latest incredible project underway with Solarfields to build the world's largest solar carport at the Lowlands Festival carpark!!

Tijl Couzij is one of the people behind Into The Great Wide Open, (on the beautiful Dutch Wadden-island, Vlieland, since 2009) and driving force behind Lab Vlieland - the organization that works towards a circular and climate positive society. Engaging and utilizing festivals as platform and practical testing grounds to speed up this greater transition.

Joining the Focus on Festivals - Living Lab of Live - Tijl gives insight in to his main field of expertise of finding and initiating workable and creative solutions, to circular and climate (disruptive) challenges, from changing audiences travel behaviours to bold use of new fuels and technologies.

Our Focus on Festivals panel is supported by the International Green Deal.

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