1/3 Great to see our colleagues at the Pink Bows Foundation represented at the Pollstar 2025 VenuesNow Conference. Their sponsorship, together with the powerful contributions of President Stephanie Stegall and Mark Hamilton FdA MA (Dist.) HonD Univ, underscores why prioritising crowd safety

1/5 🚴 Protests forced the final stage of #LaVuelta in Madrid to be abandoned, after demonstrators blocked the course, overturned barriers, and clashed with police. Jonas Vingegaard was declared the winner without the usual podium ceremony.

1/5 📊 New Research: Data-Driven Lessons from Itaewon 📊 What can urban planning teach us about preventing future crowd disasters? A powerful new study, Data-Driven Urban Planning for Proactive Crowd Management: Lessons from the 2022 Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush by Hanmin Gu, Seoyoung Kim,

1/12 Thank you to everyone who joined us for September’s edition of The Control Room, expertly hosted by Rebecca Wilusz, Ph.D. and Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip. Kristi Ross-Clausen, Ben Kidd, Syan Schaap, Steven Eckert, Nathaniel Kennedy, Prof. Dr. G. Keith Still, Oliver Kastens, Simon Hunt,

1/3 🕊️ World Suicide Prevention Day | 10 September Today we join the global call to action to raise awareness of suicide prevention. Within our worldwide community of crowd managers, safety extends beyond the physical. Mental health and wellbeing are just as essential.

1/4 GCMA recognises the difficult but responsible decision taken by our friends and partners at the Event Safety Alliance to cancel the 2025 Event Safety Summit. This reflects the challenging economic landscape currently facing the live events industry, and we commend

1/5 🎶 New Research Spotlight 🎶 Live music has long been understood as more than just entertainment. It’s a driver of connection, belonging, and community. A new systematic review brings the evidence together, showing just how profound these social outcomes can be for audiences.

1/5 🌌 Lighting the Way, Naturally 🌌 Australia is trialling a low-tech innovation with high-impact potential: glow-in-the-dark road lines made from sunlight-charged phosphorescent paint.

1/5 🔎 Research Insight: Forward Propagation of a Push Through a Row of People Understanding how force moves through a dense crowd is critical to preventing harm at large events.

1/3 🔔 Only one week to go until September's edition of The Control Room! Every month, crowd management professionals from around the world join us to share insights, challenges, and experiences. The Control Room is GCMA members space to connect, discuss, and explore the issues shaping our industry.

1/8 🚁✨ Up In The Air: Drones & Crowd Management ✨🚁 Thank you to everyone who joined us for this month’s edition of The Focal Point – “Up In The Air: Dealing With Drones.” and to our fantastic hosts, Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip and Jacob Worek, SMP

1/5 Working With Crowds has pulled together multi-angle footage of a recent mass incursion: a striking and insightful edit that shows just how complex these incidents can be. While mass crowd invasions are nothing new, they are part of a continuing global trend.

1/4 📚 From our partners at UKCMA: Dan Hancox’s forthcoming book, "Multitudes, How Crowds Made the Modern World," explores the history, psychology, and transformative potential of crowds, challenging long-held assumptions about mass gatherings.

1/3 🕯️ International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism 🕯️ Across the world, people have lost their lives or been deeply affected by acts of terrorism — including those who were simply gathering to share in culture, music, sport, or celebration.

1/3 📊 Counting crowds isn’t as simple as it looks. From manual density estimates to AI-powered analysis, there’s no single “correct” way to measure attendance and different methods can produce very different results.

1/7 Thanks to everybody who joined us for August's edition of The Control Room and a special thank you to our wonderful hosts, Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip and Jacob Worek, SMP, standing in for Rebecca Wilusz, Ph.D.. - Ben Kidd, Michael Iser, Ira L. Rosen MA, CFEE, CED,

1/4 🌍 Global Accessibility Through Parity Pricing At GCMA, we believe that professional development and industry collaboration should be accessible to everyone, regardless of geography or local economic conditions. That’s why we've introduced Parity Pricing for membership enrollment.

1/4 How Do You Build a Temporary City for 200,000 People? From dairy farm to global destination, Glastonbury is more than a festival, it’s a case study in complex logistics, temporary infrastructure, and meticulous event control.

1/3 Only one week to go until the next edition of The Control Room! Tuesday 12 August, we'll be bringing together crowd professionals from every corner of our global network to share insights, raise questions, and hear how others are approaching the complex challenges of crowd management today!

1/5 🔍 Pressure, Not Panic: The Real Killer in Crowds Congratulations to Ahmed Salah on an excellent and accessible post that unpacks the physics of fatal crowd pressure and the vital role of secondary barriers in preventing tragedy.

1/4 🧠💪 Wellness Is Infrastructure 💪🧠 From fatigue and flu to burnout on the road, Bryan Huneycutt reminds us that touring health isn't a luxury, it's the foundation of a resilient, professional show. In his latest article, “Wellness on the Road: Why Tour Health Is Everyone’s Business,”

1/6 📘 A Standout Resource on Resilience This open-source document from Poland is one of the clearest, most practical resilience guides we’ve come across: equally relevant for crowd safety professionals, infrastructure operators, and organisational risk leads. ✅ Clear guidance on risk assessment

1/3 🌍 Today is #InternationalSecurityOfficersDay, a day to honour the commitment, courage, and contribution of security professionals around the world. From stadiums to street festivals, transport hubs to public gatherings,

1/5 🔵 Post-Beyoncé Concert Crowd Crush Leaves 11 Injured in Atlanta Following the final show of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour, 11 people were injured in a crowd at Vine City Station in Atlanta, reportedly triggered by a scream, leading to a cascade of movement on a packed escalator.

1/6 🚨 30 Injured After Car Strikes Crowd Outside LA Venue A horrifying incident in East Hollywood this weekend has left 30 people injured, seven critically, after a vehicle ploughed into a queue of people waiting to enter the Vermont Hollywood venue.

1/4 ☀️ Portable Power, Wherever It’s Needed Imagine turning up to a busy event site, remote, rural, or off-grid and having 37kW of clean, portable energy ready in under 30 minutes.

1/4 🚨 Breaking News from Belgium 🚨 A major fire has engulfed the main stage at Tomorrowland festival, just days before the event was due to open in Boom. Firefighters are currently battling the blaze. Around 1,000 staff were reportedly on site, but no public attendees.

1/3 📣 Have your say on the ANSI Crowd Management Standard. The ANSI ES1.9-2020 Crowd Management Standard is now open for reaffirmation and potential revision and your input matters.

1/3 📊 Getting Event Capacity Right: More Than Just Square Metres × 2 Crowd safety expert Eric Kant, MSc, lays out a clear-eyed case for moving beyond outdated “people-per-square-metre” formulas.

1/4 🧑‍🎓 Member Spotlight | Proline COOP Training Programme (Saudi Arabia) Each semester, our valued GCMA member Proline, based in Riyadh and Jeddah, receives over 200 applications for its free COOP (Cooperative Training) programme in crowd safety.

1/3 A thoughtful and timely piece from Eric Stuart QPM, former Chair of both GCMA and UKCMA published in Protocol magazine this month. In “Martyn’s Law: An Eight-Year Battle Becomes a Reality… Almost”, Eric outlines the path to the

1/9 Thanks to everyone who joined us from all over the world for July's edition of The Control Room! Pictured here are just some of the wonderful crowd professionals who made it along from GCMA and our partner organisations: United Kingdom Crowd Management Association,

1/6 We’re delighted to share that “Words Matter | The Language of Crowds” has now been downloaded hundreds of times and the broader coverage has made a real difference! 🙏

1/4 GCMA stands in solidarity with Pink Bows Foundation and all those working to make live events safer for everyone. The risks are real: crowd pressures, suffocation, trampling, and panic-induced injuries should never be seen as the cost of attendance.

1/3 Just one week to go until July’s edition of The Control Room: GCMA’s monthly members-only networking call, bringing together crowd professionals from around the world for conversation, collaboration, and shared insight.

1/4 🎪 The Guardian's Dan Hancox explores how major festivals are rethinking crowd safety in the wake of global incidents, with contributions from UKCMA Chair, Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip, Professor John Drury, Dr Prof. Dr. G. Keith Still, and Scott Davidson.

1/6 🔎 Crowd Insight | Policing & Protest Much commentary on the recent #NoKings protests in the US has centred on a handful of confrontations. But as Professor Clifford Stott points out, this overlooks two critical facts. First, scale: an estimated 11–12 million people mobilised across hundreds

1/6 We welcome this important article from The Leaflet, which rightly calls for stronger policy, regulation and accountability around mass public events in India. This is a conversation GCMA strongly supports. As the world’s most populous country, India sees some of the highest numbers of

1/4 🎗 Turning Tragedy Into Action: The Legacy of Madison Dubiski GCMA is proud to stand alongside Pink Bows Foundation, whose work continues to shape the global conversation on crowd safety.

1/6 ✈️ It’s a trip well worth making! GCMA members are warmly invited to join our partners and colleagues at Event Safety Alliance Canada for the 2025 Conference in Toronto, taking place 20–25 October and featuring pre- and post-conference workshops.

1/6 🛑 Language Shapes Safety. Since December 2024, more than a dozen incidents have seen vehicles driven into crowds, at parades, protests, festivals and public spaces. Some were deliberate acts of violence. Others were tragic accidents.

1/4 🚨 Effective joint working saves lives but what makes it work? From festivals to public gatherings, large-scale events demand seamless coordination between emergency services. Two powerful new videos explore the five key components that underpin interoperability and how to train for it

1/3 📚 Congratulations to wonderful GCMA member and friend, Ira Rosen on the exciting news! After years of experience, teaching, and leadership in the field, Ira is now co-authoring the textbook he’s long envisioned: Festival Management, in collaboration with Cindy Lerick MA, CFEE, CED.

1/5 🔴 Update: Bengaluru Crowd Tragedy: 4 Arrests New information has emerged as authorities act following the devastating incident outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium: Police in Bengaluru have arrested four individuals, including a Royal Challengers Bengaluru official and three from the event management

1/7 Thank you to everyone who joined us for June’s edition of The Control Room, and to Rebecca Wilusz, Ph.D. for hosting so impeccably: Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip, Andrew Brodkin, Meghan Wilcox, Ira L. Rosen MA, CFEE, CED, Robert Brown, Ben Kidd, Sander Teunissen,

1/3 🎉 Celebrating a Milestone in Parade Safety Congratulations to our partners at Event Safety Alliance (ESA), who have published a new American National Standard: ANSI ES 1.42-2025, Parade Safety, in collaboration with the Event Services and Technology Association (ESTA).

1/5 🕯️ Heysel, 40 years on. Last week marked four decades since the Heysel Stadium disaster, a tragedy that claimed 39 lives and remains a pivotal moment in the history of crowd safety. In The Independent, Professor Clifford Stott reflects on Heysel’s lasting legacy,

1/5 🔴 Tragedy in Bengaluru Yesterday, devastating news emerged from India. Multiple fatalities were reported following high-density crowding outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where fans had gathered to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first IPL title.

1/6 📢 New from GCMA: Words Matter | The Language of Crowds 📘 This FREE English-language resource sets out to improve how we talk about crowd-related incidents, challenging vague or misleading terms like “panic” and “stampede”,

1/4 🌍 Just one week to go: June’s edition of The Control Room takes place next Tuesday. 📅 Tuesday, 10th June (11/06 Aus/NZ) This month’s roundtable coincides with the release of Netflix’s new "Trainwreck" series, which opens with an episode on the Astroworld tragedy.