Vision: 2025's July newsletter reveals a first look at the programme and speakers for the 9th edition Sustainable Event Summit at The Showman's Show - book your spot for #SES24!

Plus, a blog on lowering event food impacts from our friends at Green Deal Circular Festivals and resources, jobs and updates from across the industry. 

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The panel topics and first speakers have been confirmed for Vision: 2025’s Sustainable Events Summit (SES), hosted at the Showman’s Show, on Wed 23rd October 2024, and supported by title sponsor Festival Republic.

The SES 24 morning is an invitation-only industry roundtable session, where Green Leaders will focus on national policy priorities and sector strategy. A sustainable lunch is being supplied by Eat to The Beat, which will frame later conversations around food impacts.

The open-to-all and free-to-attend afternoon panels and sessions include: 'Shaping the Future: A Vision for 2030' with panel host Jon Collins CE of Live. The Tackling Travel Impacts panels will feature innovation from the season and is sponsored by 'You.Smart.Thing'.  A new “Quick Fire” session on this season's hot topics and new ideas, including updates from ecolibrium, Attitude is Everything, Eat to the Beat and intel on the upcoming Show Must Go On report. John Rostron returns to host the 'Best of the Summer' panel where leading festivals present behind-the-scenes insight on sustainability innovation.

Read the full list of confirmed speakers and sessions, and register HERE.

Paula has worked in live events for over 25 years. Starting in sound and lighting she now combines her technical and logistical knowledge as a production manager. Her history in activism and social justice led to aligning the two paths and moving into sustainable production management. She produces her own light artwork and lighting festival GLOW which has sustainability at its heart. She is the sustainability advisor for Super Culture, Diverse City and Without Walls. Read the answers to our monthly Green Leader Q&A HERE.

In June, we spoke to Tanya, Steinhauser, Co-director of The Festival of Thrift. Read her answers HERE.

Festivals have the power to design their food systems and influence what’s on the menu, poured from the tap, pricing, promotion, and the engagement of their audiences. In this blog for the Green Deal Circular Festivals project, Lyke Poortvliet discusses how festivals can reduce the impact of food and drinks through communication and behavioural change. The blog discusses what makes a low-impact dish, gives festival case study examples of system change and shares some key principles of effective behaviour change. Read the blog HERE.

Music Declares Emergency (MDE) has launched NO FESTIVALS ON A DEAD PLANET, sharing with a new festival sustainability guide for audiences on how they can support their favourite events to be greener. 

The guide has been created with Boomtown, Love Saves the Day, FORWARDS and Shambala. Event-goers who download the campaign can win tickets to Boomtown 2024, Shambala 2024, Forwards 2024 and Love Saves the Day 2025. Once signed up they join the MDE community and receive monthly Climate Action Challenges and tips. 

Catch MDE in festival fields this summer or download the guide to win tickets. 

ADE Green returns on October 18, 2024. ADE Green is the pioneering conference on sustainability and social change within the music industry and is part of the ADE Pro conference during the Amsterdam Dance Event.

The conference features a full day of diverse workshops, panels, inspiring keynotes and short-format programs with a panoply of influential thought leaders, artists, and industry experts from renowned institutions and festival organisations. Get an early glimpse at the programme and register HERE.

Following the Bonn Climate Change conference in June, the Julie's Bicycle team share some updates on their Global Call campaign, which aims to put culture at the heart of climate policy. Read about the campaign's progress and plans for COP30 in 2025, Brazil and sign up to add your voice HERE.

To be pioneering in our response to the climate crisis, as an industry we need a clear vision, benchmarks to understand progress, practical clear solutions, and support from beyond our sector, particularly government.

Over the next nine months, Vision: 2025 is bringing the industry together to produce the third edition 'State of the Industry' report, a vision for beyond 2025, which will help build a case for government support. We need everyone to take part.

You can help fund the report through a range of other sponsorship packages including headline and chapter supporters: https://bit.ly/SMGO-3

Our selected news picks from across the Live Events Industry and beyond, including jobs, events, blogs, reports, and what the Vision: 2025 team has been watching, listening to, and reading this month:

• How festivals can become more sustainable & why the music industry can fight for climate justice: Music Declares Emergency's Lewis Jamieson and House DJ Jayda G talk to Chanté Joseph HERE. 
• Julie’s Bicycle are seeking an Operations Coordinator. The closing date is 29 July. Find out more and apply: HERE 
• Access All Areas Event Sustainability Issue - HERE
• Documentary, “Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power,” explores the threats facing blue carbon ecosystems and the people working to protect them. Presented by Jayda G with a score by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Brazilian pop-samba star Seu Jorge, it marries music, nature and climate action HERE
• Job opportunity: Sustainable Ventures are looking for a Sustainable Events Assistant HERE.

Our newsletter reaches over 4,500 UK event professionals interested in sustainability. Send jobs, events, resources and articles to feature here to: info@vision2025.org.uk.