Step away from the stage and join a series of focused, peer-led discussions tackling the issues that matter most to organisers. Share your experiences and challenges, and learn from the people around the table.

These roundtables are designed to be an open, practical conversation, no presentations, no sales pitches, just honest discussion and ideas you can take back to your business.

Roundtable 1: Forging a creative identity hosted by Visual Architects

With many organisers shifting investment away from huge headliners to a broader more immersive event offering, we explore how creative experiences are shaping and defining festivals.

Roundtable 2: Future talent without the barriers: Making industry engagement easier hosted by The Power of Events

Making the UK Events industry more resilient is a collective and collaborative mission – future event professionals need to be better informed of the industry’s breadth and scope of opportunity, alongside the multiple routes available so they feel welcome, informed and inspired there is a viable career for them. If the industry is also to develop a more representative, inclusive and accessible future talent mix, the various time/resource/compliance barriers for event organisations to best engage with young people need to be removed. This is achieved through best practice sharing with awareness of the most impactful and efficient ways to engage with schools and young people – The Power of Events Schools Engagement and soon to be launched Experience of Work programmes give the industry these required solutions.

Roundtable 3: Sustainable experiences hosted by Kuehne+Nagel

What initiatives, products and/or services are helping event organisers and suppliers most on their road to net zero?

Roundtable 4: What Martyn’s Law means for you hosted by K4 Security Services

More than a year after the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 received royal assent, the Home Office published statutory guidance. What does Martyn’s Law mean for event operators.

Roundtable 5: Financing festivals hosted by Specialist Risk

With costs across the board having soared, what are the most cost-effective ways to create and promote a successful event, and what are the key funding/grant channels available?

Roundtable 6: Are We Designing Events for Everyone? hosted by Creative Structures Group

What does a genuinely accessible and neuroinclusive event look like? Share the practical changes, ideas and approaches that are helping organisers remove barriers and create a better experience for disabled and neurodivergent audiences.