• Bart Bruelemans - Bedrijfsdirecteur Maatschappelijke Veiligheid stad Antwerpen 

Topic: Het mogelijk effect van een epidemie op de event sector

Voor zijn promotie was Bart Bruelemans voorheen 13,5 jaar Rampencoördinator van de stad Antwerpen. Hij is betrokken bij tal van opleidingen in noodplanning (rampenmanagement, crowd management, ...) en is bovendien coauteur van het boek "Help! Een crisis - een praktisch model voor een professioneel crisisbeheersingsproces". Kortom, een referentiepunt in Vlaanderen op vlak van veiligheid op evenementen.

• Andy Hollinson - The Square Metre Group/ Crowd Safety Training (UK)

Topic: The Coronavirus: a perspective from the UK

Andy Hollinson is CEO of the Square Metre LTD and has almost 20 years experience within the safety and professional security industry. He has been involved in numerous large scale events involving millions of people. His company provides safety consultancy and training over the whole world, including the "Level 5 Award in Crowd Safety Management" in Belgium with To B-Seen.

Andy Hollinson is also founder of The Crowd Magazine. The worlds first publication, solely dedicated tot Crowd Safety Management and saving lives in crowded places.

• Jim Goddard - Event Safety Solutions Ltd (UK)

Topic: Command and control & communication

Jim Goddard was formerly a police officer specialising in crowd safety and public order. He was responsible for training and accrediting commanders accross the south west (UK), and commanding and providing specialist advice at a range of high profile events and major incidents. After 27 years of service, he is now a crowd safety consultant and trainer for large sporting events, stadiums and music festivals.​

• Professor John Drury - University of Sussex (UK)

Topic: Understanding group psychology can improve crowd safety management

Prof. Drury is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles on crowd behaviour. He has researched some of the world's major events and crowd incidents including the Hajj, the Hillsborough disaster, the London bombings of July 7th 2005 and many more.

He teaches Crowd Psychology to the UK Fire and Rescue Service as part of National Resilience training. His work with Public Health England on CBRN mass decontamination is included in international guidance. He is also currently the editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.

• Nico Vande Kerkhof - Noodplancoördinator stad Lommel

Topic: Drones in de hulpverlening en grootschalige incidenten (op events)

Naast noodplancoördinator van de stad Lommel, werkt Nico Vande Kerkhof als extern adviseur voor de Hulpverleningszone Noord-Limburg. Hij is een gebrevetteerd commercieel dronepiloot klasse 1 én voor state aircraft. Daarnaast is hij de nationaal vertegenwoordiger van België binnen de IEDO (International Emergency Drones Organisation).

• Filip Smeets - Seris Belgium

Topic: Het Belgisch wettelijk kader rond private bewaking - security & stewards

Filip Smeets is, naast Area Manager bij SERIS security Belgium, ook gastdocent aan aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en de Universiteit Gent. ​

• Bart Busschaert - Scelta Mobility

Topic: Mobiliteit

Bart Busschaert is een mobiliteitsexpert met bijna 20 jaar ervaring. In 2013 richtte hij samen mee Scelta Mobility op, wat ondertussen is uitgegroeid tot een begrip in de eventsector als het gaat om mobiliteit expertise. 

• Ben Bellekens - Universiteit Antwerpen

Topic: The future of Crowd Analytics

Festivals and other large-scale city events attract many people, but organisers often lack insight into the number of people attending the event and their movements. This information can be invaluable to the organisers of large-scale events – from a commercial point of view, but also for safety reasons. Sometimes a whole crowd starts moving for no reason. Without detailed and accurate information, it's very difficult for emergency services to make the right decisions instantly. Today they use cameras, but these images can be very difficult to interpret due to interference from smoke or bright flashes of light or light vs darkness.

IDLab developed a unique solution, tested at Tomorrowland, that offers realtime and accurate crowd analytics. It is based on a network of small transceivers that are placed at hip height and work at 868 MHz. We don't need cameras, nor do we use the signals from people's smartphones. So no potential privacy issues.

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