EVENTS
Event Organisation
Instalia’s directory and reference section on event organisation: the companies that plan, coordinate and manage a conference, a festival, a trade show or a brand launch before the first truck reaches the venue, and news from the sector. Here you will find organisers, agencies, production companies and technical suppliers, along with the method by which the project is ordered: planning, budget, contracting suppliers and technical documentation. The work that follows is developed in event production, event setup and event rental.
- Planning and project management
- Suppliers, venue and schedule
- Technical documentation and coordination
PROFESSIONAL GUIDE
Technical rider and counter-rider: what the artist asks for and what production answers
The document that closes an event’s technical agreement: what it must contain, how it is read against the venue’s technical spec, how the counter-rider is drafted and who settles each discrepancy before the build.
Rider contents · Venue technical spec · Counter-rider and substitutions
Latest event organisation news
Companies, agencies, suppliers and event organisation projects published on Instalia.
What this category gathers and how the preparatory work is organised
This category holds the companies devoted to event organisation: organisers and agencies that take on the whole commission, companies specialising in a single stretch of the project, and suppliers who provide kit and technical service. The events sector has grown and specialised in recent years, and with it the number of companies coexisting on the same build, so a good part of the work consists of knowing who to call, and in what order.
Organising an event is, first of all, ordering a project: setting the objective and the audience, choosing the date and the venue, closing the budget, contracting the suppliers and drawing up the schedule that synchronises everyone. On that base the technical work then rests — event production, event setup, event structures — along with the kit that goes on stage, in event products and event rental. The listing of companies by service is in event suppliers.
Control comes from the documents. Running orders, the schedule and venue plans are sent with time to spare and with confirmation of receipt; the technical agreement with each artist or company is closed in the technical rider and counter-rider. From there each area works with its own documentation: professional sound, professional lighting and stage structures supply their specs, and the same logic of phases that organises audiovisual production applies to the event calendar.
Who does what in organising an event
There is no single division of labour. At a small event one person takes on the organisation, the production and dealings with the venue; at a large festival or conference each of those functions has its own lead and its own team. What does not change is the set of areas somebody has to cover, whatever they are called in each organisation.
AREAS SOMEBODY HAS TO COVER
- Project direction: objective, scope and decisions
- Production: schedule, personnel and delivery
- Venue: access, hours and the space’s own subcontractors
- Technical suppliers: contracting and follow-up
- Finance: budget, sign-off and variances
- Communications: promotion, press and attendees
Who holds which title — who is technical director, who is deputy, who is stage manager, who leads each team — depends on the size of the production and is far easier to grasp against a real case: how the technical production of a show is organised, with a festival’s full calendar month by month.
Event management: planning, coordinating and controlling the project
Event management is the part of the commission nobody sees on the day: the planning and follow-up work through which an event manager keeps the schedule, the cost and the companies involved under control, from the first meeting to the post-event evaluation.
Planning
Objectives, audience, format, date and venue. This is the phase that fixes the project’s scope and conditions everything that follows.
Coordination
Dividing tasks and synchronising the companies involved: who goes in, when and with what is set by the schedule, not by each firm’s availability.
Suppliers
Selection, contracting and follow-up through to delivery, with headroom for manufacture, transport and last-minute changes.
Budget
Financial control of the project: forecast, sign-off with each supplier and tracking of variances while the event is being prepared.
Follow-up
The status of each task, deadlines and issues held in a single place the team can consult, with communication centralised through the lead.
Delivery and close
Build, event and de-rig, and then the evaluation: attendance, coverage, actual cost and the perspective of the technical team and the suppliers.
Corporate formats: conventions, meetings and internal events
Part of the event organisation calendar is taken up by corporate events: those a company organises for its own people or for its clients. The audience and the objective change, the method does not — the same schedule, the same technical suppliers and the same financial sign-off as any other project.
THE MOST COMMON CORPORATE FORMATS
- Annual convention and sales kick-off: large room, presentations and sound reinforcement
- Shareholders’ meeting: agenda, voting and broadcast
- Product launch and brand event: staging and image
- Internal meeting and hybrid town hall: room and remote connection at once
- Team building and awards: touring or in-venue format
What sets a corporate event apart is the demand it places on technical coordination: fixed timings, short build windows and little margin for failure in front of an internal audience. The project on the ground is detailed in event production.
Explore the events field
The other areas of an event’s cycle on Instalia, from the technical project through to the on-site build and hiring the kit.
The project on the ground: permits, org chart, suppliers and safety.
Rental kit for productions that would rather not tie up their own stock.
Are you an event organisation company?
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