We catch up with Jason Stead, MD of GES EMEA to talk about the role of the big contractor in our industry, his time on the ESSA Board and whether there is space for the larger contractors to play an altruistic part in our community.

This can sometimes be an uneasy relationship with misunderstanding of pressure points at the forefront. Katie Morhen from 52Eight3 chats to Lou about the reasons for this and how the two departments could work things to a much better advantage.

We talk to Sarah Elton-Wall from Olympia about the dynamic between venues and organisers and what ops pros could do to get the most of that relationship.

Verena Lester lives and breathes events in far away lands. Lou catches up with her to discuss the situations that teach you things that you would never learn elsewhere.

Our associations have been at the coal face of getting a 'go live' date. At the time of this session we were mid way through a marathon and still sprinting. Listen in to a conversation with Chris Skeith, AEO & Andrew Harrison, ESSA.

AztecLive have been such a great supporter of Ops in Lockdown when it comes to the technical issues and challenges we have come across on our virtual journey. David Stanley joins Lou for a session on the challenges of Virtual Events.

Noel Reeves from Rocket Exhibitions has been an inspiration throughout lockdown by diversifying outside the sector. Lou catches up with him part way through lockdown for a straight up conversation about the challenges of running a business at this time.

In this session, Lou talks to Jo Burton & Rebecca Davis about the issues we are facing within our sector and in particular, how we are all coping - or not - with our 'lot'.

Features can often be an element that Ops spend an awful lot of time and money on, so we picked the brains of Marija Erzen from Solutions2 about ways to make this work better.

Scheduling is going to be an increasingly hot topic for the future success of events, so Lou enlisted the brain of Andy Paul from Teem Services for an open discussion on what we could do differently.