With 25+ years as a member of the Torture Garden team, Charlotte Hellicar reveals how rules, information and immersion can increase excitement and freedom at events.
Global megatours, album formats, festival overload, high-end audio, challenges for smaller venues… Where does experience design fit in with the future of music?
With some superfans attending over a hundred times, Owen Kingston reveals the secrets behind the world's most repeatable experience.
Advice for new founders and experience entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge's Professor Chris Coleridge.
From Shanghai to Riyadh, from London to Los Angeles – the Experience Economy is evolving fast. This session is a global intelligence exchange: what’s working, where, and why.
How teamwork, structure, partnership and collaboration will help build the experience ecosystem of the future.
The Laboratory of Belonging is a place where visibility is examined with curiosity and care — and where participants leave feeling seen, heard, and celebrated.
Practical tools from immersive theater for designing audience journeys, meaning and transformation.
A firsthand account of protest objects and mutual care as human technologies in crisis.
Tony-nominated producer and developer Blair Russell on the funding structures, development paths and revenue streams that will transform your art into a business.
Introducing 'Immersive Influence': how to reframe experiences as behavioural infrastructure that shapes action beyond the visit.
A practical case for using game engines as logic systems, not just rendering tools.
A participatory exercise in mapping the networks that shape local experience ecosystems.
An interactive session on making immersive media accessible to disability communities.
Tall tales of unbuilt resorts, nevermade theme parks and grand follies and failures – but what can we actually learn from these phantom projects?