1/4 GCMA Focal Point: Crowd Management & Rave Culture Join us on Tuesday 25 November at 7:00 PM (UK) for a one-hour panel discussion exploring the intersection of crowd management and rave culture. With panelists from the UK, US and Canada, this international session will examine

1/4 🔥 When Flares Fly and Common Sense Burns Out At Oasis’ Melbourne show, one flare nearly turned a celebration into chaos. Liam Gallagher’s unfiltered reaction made headlines but the real story is what could have happened.

1/4 🔵 NEW JESIP CAPABILITIES VIDEOS 🔵 Great to see three new videos from JESIP, highlighting the capabilities of core blue light services: 🚔 Police: lnkd.in/eBTw76ya 🚒 Fire: lnkd.in/etqeTJ4z 🚑 Ambulance: lnkd.in/e7i6iuNp Produced in response to recommendations from the

1/5 Paris: PSG Seeks Fan Feedback on Future Stadium Plans Paris Saint-Germain has launched a large-scale consultation with more than 90,000 supporters to help shape the club’s potential move away from the Parc des Princes. The survey asks fans for input on everything from preferred

1/3 As the world marks the anniversary of the Astroworld tragedy, we stand alongside the Pink Bows Foundation and safety professionals everywhere in remembrance and resolve.

1/5 Only a Week To Go! 📅 Tuesday 11 November 🕛 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET / 15:00 EST / 12:00 PST / Wed 12 · 06:00 AEDT We’re looking forward to November’s edition of The Control Room, GCMA’s monthly members-exclusive forum for open discussion, shared insight, and professional connection.

1/4 🎟️ Don’t Miss Out — Book Now for #SCSV26! Our partners at the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA) have just announced Safer Crowds, Safer Venues 2026, returning to Middlesbrough Town Hall, UK, 2–4 March 2026.

1/4 🎧 Celebrating International Control Room Week 2025 From 27 October to 2 November, we join colleagues around the world in recognising the dedicated professionals who keep events, venues, and communities safe: the unsung heroes of the Control Room.

1/4 🎭 Celebrating DEI in Action: Lessons from New York Comic Con Every year, New York Comic Con quietly outperforms many HR and DEI conferences: not through rhetoric, but through practice. From sensory-safe zones and scooter-charging stations to prayer rooms, gender-neutral restrooms,

1/4 🕊️ Standing Together for Inclusion and Integrity We stand in full support of our partners at the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA) and all signatories of the Open Letter to the Security Industry, reaffirming a shared commitment to equality,

1/2 👏 Wishing our partners at Event Safety Alliance Canada (ESAC) every success as they gather for this year’s conference! The ESAC Conference remains a vital space for sharing knowledge, strengthening professional connections, and advancing global conversations on crowd and event safety.

1/3 🪔 Wishing you a Bright and Peaceful Diwali! Across the world, millions are celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights: a moment that honours renewal, connection, and the victory of light over darkness.

1/9 🌍 A big thank you to everyone who joined us for October's special multi-partner edition of The Control Room, with the memberships of our partner organisations, UKCMA, ESA and ESAC.

1/5 🎭 When Seeing Isn’t Believing Artificial intelligence is now capable of generating entire crowds: detailed, emotive, and convincingly real. A recent NPR feature explores the emerging risks of AI-generated crowd scenes, from political manipulation to misinformation in public safety contexts.

1/4 In the aftermath of Karur, Dr Milad Haghani has written a clear and uncompromising piece: solutions to crowd disasters are not mysterious. They already exist, they work, and they save lives in other countries. His article outlines four key areas of reform for India and beyond:

1/4 Less than a Week To Go! 📅 Tuesday October 14th 🕛 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CEST / 15:00 EDT / 12:00 PDT / Wed 15 · 06:00 AEDT We're looking forward to October's edition of The Control Room. It's going to be a special multi-partner session, extending an invitation to the memberships

1/5 Research Confirms It: Live Events Are Good for You! 🎶 Freshly accepted for publication, this revised paper from researchers at the University of Sussex provides robust evidence that attending live music events boosts wellbeing and can even inspire positive behaviour change.

1/4 London's Fire Brigade has recorded its busiest wildfire summer since the record-breaking 2022 heatwave, tackling more than 80 incidents across England's capital city between June and August. The figures highlight the growing risks of hotter, drier summers for communities,

1/5 We are closely following developments at Munich’s Oktoberfest. Our thanks to @workingwithcrowds.bsky.social for their careful tracking of updates.

1/4 On Friday evening, collegiate event managers in the US were reminded of the dangers inherent in “field storming” and the uncontrolled movement of a high-energy crowd. After the University of Virginia’s victory over Florida State, students and fans rushed the field from “The Hill” immediately

1/6 We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Karur, Tamil Nadu, which has so far claimed at least 36 lives and injured many more, during a sudden crowd surge at a political rally. As Eric Stuart QPM, former Chair of both UKCMA and GCMA, wrote yesterday:

1/4 This week’s edition of The Focal Point webinar series explored AI and Mass Communications, with specialist insights from Prof. Dr. G. Keith Still. Ordinarily a members-only forum, this special session was opened to the wider industry, reflecting the importance of

1/3 The 2025 Spectator Sports Safety & Security Survey from our colleagues at NCS4 offers invaluable insights into how fans perceive safety at sporting events, from visible security measures and fan behaviour to the role of AI in sport security.

1/4 🚀 Event Safety Isn’t Rocket Science… Rocket Science Has a Manual Our friend and GCMA member, Bryan Huneycutt has written another powerful article highlighting a critical truth: event safety is often treated as “common sense,” but unlike rocket science, it lacks the structured pathways,

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.