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Ethan Dooley
Managing Director
1300MEDICS is the leading commercial provider of first aid and medical services for events and venues across the eastern seaboard. Our highly experienced team build a comprehensive medical solution that meets the exact risk management and public safety requirements for each event or venue. Our extensive experience comes from working a multitude of venues including the largest in Australia, the MCG. When you visit our team, speak with our partner companies Overwatch and Chronosoft. Overwatch provides a range of solutions and consulting services on health and safety for organisation’s staff and patrons. Chronosoft is a leading provider of control centre and incident management software solutions for every size venue and event. Working together we can implement and deliver a complete solution for your event or venue.
Justin King
Executive Vice President, Sales
24/7 Software’s mission is to empower world-class operations and exceptional experiences.
24/7 Software is the market leader in providing communication, incident reporting, and facilities management software solutions to the sports, leisure, and entertainment market. 24/7 Software is a one-stop-shop for venue operations including a suite of solution across safety and security, facilities management, and guest experience as well as integrations across ticketing, CRM, video management, credentialing, HR solutions, and IoT (Internet of Things) sensors.
The company’s solutions are implemented in over 85% of all the North American professional sports venues, and over 400 venues worldwide. International customers include FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germaine, Manchester United, the O2 Arena in London, Lord’s Cricket Ground, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust, and Marvel Stadium.
Michael Roberts
Associate at Arup working in Engineering Industry
Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.
As an independent firm, with a trust structure, Arup has no external investors. The Australasia Region encompasses Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, with a 3000-strong team providing consultancy services to government, corporate and community-based clients.
Nigel Benton
Publisher
Australasian Leisure Management magazine and the www.ausleisure.com.au website are the only business media in the leisure industry in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
The VMA’s partner publication since 1997, Australasian Leisure Management includes news and features covering entertainment, events, sport, tourism and venues.
The printed magazine has over 11,500 readers (with circulation increasing in the last year) while Google Analytics figures show that the website records more than four million impressions a month.
David Brown
Managing Director
Axess is an international leading manufacturer of ticketing and access management systems. With our production facility in Austria and 20 sales and support subsidiaries we serve our customers all around the world. Our solutions are used by ski resorts, fair and convention centres, stadia and arenas, leisure parks, museums and sightseeing attractions and touristic transport. In these fields, we offer complete resort solutions, customer registration and customer loyalty programs with social media integration and also numerous standardized interfaces to third-party systems. Individually tailored solutions are developed for individual projects based on proven standard technologies.
We customize solutions!
Saul Heffernan
Group Commercial Director
We bring spaces to life through digital installations. From billboards to scoreboards, our big screens make landmarks, organisations and venues across Australia, New Zealand and North America more attractive to the crowds you want to engage. Having completed projects with the MCG, Adelaide Oval, The Gabba to name a few, BSV have developed the experience, product knowledge and certainty necessary for your next high-profile project.
Edward Swete Kelly
Co-Founder & Director
“Chronosoft is a leading provider of incident management solutions, offering an all-in-one platform for organisations to respond to incidents in real-time, prioritise jobs, and track critical operations. Our flagship product, Chronicler, provides a personalised solution unique to your organisation and eliminates the need for manual processes.
In addition to Chronicler, we also offer a robust staff management platform, Orchestrator, designed specifically for companies in dynamic environments. Our Medstat system provides clinical best practice EPR and patient tracking, while Locator offers GPS tracking and high-definition geospatial maps.
Founded in 2015 after a tragedy highlighted the need for better incident management solutions, Chronosoft has since grown to serve clients in government, major events, festivals, and critical incident control rooms globally. Our commitment to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations has earned us the trust of leading organisations in these industries.”
Daktronics
Daktronics is an American company based in Brookings, South Dakota, that designs, manufactures, sells, and services video displays, scoreboards, digital billboards, dynamic message signs, sound systems, and related products.
Joe Morsello
Corporate Key Accounts Manager - Sports & Entertainment
dormakaba is a leading manufacturer of physical access solutions such as speed gates, turnstiles and other admission devices with a focus on sports, leisure and entertainment facilities.
Our Alvarado portfolio offers a comprehensive portfolio of quality products and services with tailored solutions to client requirements that also integrates with mobile technology and digital ticketing. Complemented by our offerings to office, commercial and government buildings.
Mike Dimond
Executive Director
As a leading manufacturer of photoluminescent evacuation route products, Ecoglo is excited about the release of SA TS 5367:2021, Hybrid photoluminescent signage – Product specification, installation and operation. Addressing the gap in the market for technical guidelines relating to hybrid PL exit signs it is designed to sit alongside NCC documentation as an alternative deemed-to-satisfy solution. This is supported by a CODEMARK accreditation.
SA TS 5367 provides an objective set of minimum requirements for compliance and offers installers and end users full confidence in hybrid sign safety and performance.
Ecoglo PL hybrid signs contain no batteries, and have a comprehensive 15 year warranty.
For more information contact Ecoglo.
Melanie Ivory
Global Director of Sales
EventDraw is the ultimate event diagramming software, enabling you to create stunning 2D and 3D diagrams that impress your clients and help you close more business. Our software offers a comprehensive view of your floorplans, allowing clients to visualize their events in exceptional detail.
Eventdraw supports you in creating multiple designs to showcase your space. The 2D view is perfect for presenting the overall layout of your design. The 3D view offers an immersive experience that lets your clients see the design from multiple angles and perspectives in photorealistic 3D.
Using EventDraw, you can give your clients a better understanding of their upcoming event and increase their confidence in your ability to deliver their event vision. Our user-friendly software ensures you can create diagrams quickly and efficiently, making it the ideal tool to help you close and deliver with ease.
Trust EventDraw to help you create exceptional event diagrams that impress your clients and win you more business.
Anna Giorgianni
National Marketing, Brand and Communications Manager
It is essential that venues and other hospitality spaces where large groups of people gather, are safe, operate efficiently and that there is no disruption of service, especially during an event. The overall guest experience is paramount to the reputation of your venue, as the reputation and brand can be impacted if people have an unpleasant experience.
At Grosvenor Engineering Group, we have over 25 years’ experience providing end-to-end solutions in operational systems and equipment such as HVAC, Fire and Electrical assets,
across ANZ to many large hospitality facilities.
Steven Carlin
General Manager, Technical
Sports and event management has become an increasingly complex balance between secure, convenient public access and attendee's sophisticated expectations. HID Global's integrated platform simplifies event organization providing diversified ticketing options that utilize RFID and contactless mobile access, generating analytics that provide real-time visibility and offering social mobile apps that enhance and expand the attendee experience.
Russell Bode
Director of Innovation
Inzenius - The System That Pays for the Event Industry.
Has a deep understanding of, and relationship with the Event Industry
Is core to the accuracy of payroll.
To efficiently achieve this, is the Rostering process, Timekeeping flowing to the Timesheet authorisation.
The timesheet data flows into the Award Interpreter for Payroll and its processing through to Employee accounts, STP reporting to the ATO and data to the business Financial Accounts
That’s Inzenius
The event industry is a unique business with the need to compile employee rosters by events for hirer charging Payroll Cost Estimating in line with the payroll outcomes.
That’s Inzenius
Time worked on a different event for each employee, even on the same day is a core requirement.
That’s Inzenius
Accurate Award Interpretation compliant with the region’s complex employment conditions
That Inzenius
Employee communications to their devices is highly regarded.
That’s Inzenius
Angie Martin
Director of Sales, APAC
Momentus Technologies (formerly Ungerboeck) is a global provider of industry-leading venue and event management solutions that empower venues to create extraordinary moments. With over 50,000 users in more than 50 countries, Momentus serves the needs of venues of all types and sizes, including convention and exhibition centres, stadiums and arenas, arts and culture centres and many more. Its powerful intuitive platform alongside intelligent data-driven solutions and unparalleled expertise provides customers a view of past, present and future event operations to increase end-to-end visibility, optimize efficiency and achieve business goals.
To learn more, visit gomomentus.com.
John Stace
VP Global Sales
Noggin is an industry-leader in safety, security, and critical event management technology with its next-generation, cloud-based software platform.
The award-winning Noggin Platform provides an all-hazards approach to improving business resilience, housing all of the tools needed to help make informed decisions and respond effectively to any incident, large or small. Noggin’s software platform includes solutions for: crisis management, business continuity, environmental health and safety, emergency management, and security management.
Chris Dodds
Managing Director
The P.A. People brings fifty-years of service & expertise to the Venue Industry. Australian owned and continuously operating since 1971, the Company delivers fit-for-purpose solutions for large and small-scale audio, AV, performance lighting and networks. With its acquisition of TheatreQuip, the company has expanded its Venue Engineering capability and can now also supply standards-compliant solutions including drapes and track, stage lifts, lighting bars, counterweight systems and theatrical hoists. From Arenas, Stadia, Convention Centres, Theatres and Performance spaces, to multi-purpose venues and education facilities - the company has a comprehensive and collaborative approach to the market.
Brendan Mitchell
Marketing Executive at PAM working in Sales Industry
Smart city district owners use PAM to guide millions of visitors to enjoy the busiest and most challenging city districts around the world. Stadiums, universities, airports, hospitals, resorts...every day PAM turns huge spaces into familiar places where people love to spend their time and money. Our clients use our advanced, agile and smart navigation platform so their customers can better understand their environment, and their environment can better understand their customers.
PAM provides operators with complete control of the entire user navigation experience. Fans immediately connect with any environment, know where they are and what’s around them. We do this by creating unique eXplorer maps with a beautiful virtual 3D world and smart navigation for visitors to enjoy all that any stadium district has to offer
Paul McCarthy AVM
Safety Consultant
PBM Safety is a proud VMA Allied Member that has been servicing the Event and Entertainment Industry since 2010. We maintain our sponsorship of the VMA Congress as support to the association and its members. Our current Team is based in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.
The recovery is well underway in most event areas, and we can provide insight at all levels from a small café with acoustic performers to arenas or stadia with international sports or concerts.
Erik Miehs
Sales Manager Australia & New Zealand
Riedel Communications, founded in 1987, designs, manufactures and distributes innovative real-time networks for video, audio and communications. Its products are used for broadcast, pro-audio, event, sports, theater and security applications worldwide. The company is known for pioneering digital audio matrix systems, as well as SDI and IP-based media networks. Riedel is headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany and employs over 1000 people in 30 locations throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas.
Jake Tolsher
Business Development Manager, Sports & Live Events - APAC
Ross Video is a leading video production technology manufacturer specialising in end-to-end solutions to help venues engage fans, increase revenue, and get the most out of their LED signage, big screen and scoreboard systems.
From automating LED ribbon board sponsorship playout and content management to unifying the big screen, IPTV and stadium lighting systems for spectacular show pieces, Ross is helping customers engage fans and connect them to brands like never before, taking the in-venue experience to the next level!
The Ross Unified Venue Solution allows unmatched compatibility with 3rd party products, external production companies and broadcasters. Regular tenants and touring events will have complete integration. This standardised approach also offers greater scalability with additional devices, resources, and crew able to be added on in future upgrades or for one off events.
Ross has a strong presence in Australia with over 20 major sports venues running Ross technology. With a corporate office in Sydney, an R&D site in Melbourne and a dedicated Sports & Live Event solutions team Ross understands the Aussie sporting landscape, how teams run their events and what technology venues need to embrace to remain at the forefront.
From suburban grounds to the MCG and global sites like the famous SoFi Stadium in LA, Ross has a solution for venues, projects and budgets of all shapes and sizes.
Chris Hatcher
Operations Director
Securecy is a unique workforce management software platform developed specifically for complex and highly regulated industries.
We have worked very closely with our clients and end users (stadiums and events) to develop ’Stadium Manager’ a ground breaking system that has digitised the entire workflow for event workforces.
The system includes automated personnel on-boarding and inductions, HR, licence management, fully digitised deployment with full contractor management, rostering, incident reports, event logs, post event reports, roaming patrols, communications, payroll, contractor timesheets and much more.
Importantly it means no more spread sheets!
Lukas Daxer
Area Development Manager People Access APAC
SKIDATA is the global leader in access and revenue management solutions, offering seamless and unmatchable guest experience. From standard to customized, SKIDATA’s optimal solutions enable venue managers to maximize their sales potential while providing the highest level of comfort to their guests.
SKIDATA is present in more than 100 countries around the world bringing record-fastest and secure access of people and vehicles to ski resorts, stadiums, theme parks, trade fairs, airports, cities, shopping malls, office buildings, hospitals, hotels and wellness facilities.
It has been a long journey… From being the first company offering electronically printed tickets and cash registers 45 years back, to now offer the latest NFC ticket access and mobile payment solutions to multiple industries, SKIDATA is the partner of choice for future-proof access solutions, always two steps forward in technology and innovation.
SKIDATA sets the trend, presenting state-of-the-art designs and vanguard solutions for access management at the most renowned venues across the globe, offering a complete solution that can manage and control entire facilities. Smart and secure access management systems provide the highest level of comfort to guests and staff, offering professional data and report management tools to our customers.
We change the world of welcoming people.
Miguel Mendoza
Country Manager - ANZ
VITEC is a market-leading provider of IPTV, Video Streaming and Digital Signage Solutions that help organisations harness the power of video to engage, empower and evolve. VITEC is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of hardware and software for video encoding, decoding, transcoding, archiving and streaming over IP. Our end-to-end video streaming solutions enable customers to capture TV and video content directly from any source and manage its delivery, as channels or within digital signage screens, to any connected device via an existing network. From corporate, broadcast and venues, to accommodation, government and military, VITEC has global expertise in delivering complex, proAV solutions.
