Go Group Paris Workshop April 8 & 9 / 2013

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3rd GO Group Workshop Festival and Event Sustainability Hôtel de Ville Paris, 08 & 09 April 2013

Greener, smarter, more sustainable – the GO Group credo is becoming more and more important to the European events industry. Festivals from all over the continent take part in the process and we really want to see all the others follow. That's why GO Group set up this interactive, open and communicative workshop format to stimulate exchange, cooperation and inspiration – between event organizers, suppliers and science.

Now it’s time for the 3rd international GO Group workshop in Paris.

We kindly invite you to this 2-day seminar at the Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall of the City of Paris), on April 8 and 9 2013. The workshop is kindly hosted by We Love Green and supported by Azimuth Productions.

The third GO Group workshop for Sustainable Festivals and Events will focus on energy & power (day 1) and waste at events (day 2). Presentations, discussion and case studies from major European festivals will focus on the problems, solutions and good practice.

Find the detailed program online soon: www.go-group.org.

GO stands for Green Operations. GO Group and is an independent, pan European and cross industry think-tank. GO Group meetings are open to stakeholders interested in actively pushing the Green Agenda. Bucks University, GreenEvents Europe Conference, Green Music Initiative (GMI) and Yourope (the European Festival Association) founded GO Group in early 2011 and made it an european institution for sustainable event management. (For more GO Group info see page 4) Best regards, Teresa Moore Jacob Bilabel Christof Huber

Marie Sabot Holger Jan Schmidt

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Program: (subject to change)

The workshop language will be English.

Sun 07 April 2013, 19h GO Group get together @ La Maroquinerie (see next page for info) Day 1, Mon 08 April 2013 Main topic: Energy & Power 10.00 „A welcome to Paris” 10.30 „We Love Green Festival” 11.15 „Rock En Seine“ 12.00 lunch 13.30 „Energy Transition Panel“ 14.15 „The Power Behind Festivals“ 15.00 „Green Music Energy“ 15:45 Coffee Break 16:00 group work sessions 17:30 results presentation, Q&A GO Group dinner

first round-up case study by Marie Sabot case study by François Missonier with Jacob Bilabel & Bruno Rebelle

by Chris Johnson et al.

by Jacob Bilabel

@ Comptoir Général (see next page for info)

Day 2, Tue 09 April 2013 Main topic: Waste at events 09.00 „The Good, The Bad & The Ugly“ 09.45 Les Connexions' approach on wastemgmt 10.30 Coffee Break 10.45 „Camp site waste & Love Your Tent update“ 11.15 „Do People Behave Better In A Clean Environment?“ 12.00 lunch 13.30 „Siestes Électroniques, Toulouse” 14.00 group work sessions 15:30 results presentation and Good-bye

by Holger Jan Schmidt

by Nicolas Dahan

by Holger Jan Schmidt

by Teresa Moore case study by Samuel Aubert

speakers: (among others, short info at the end of this doc).

Samuel Aubert, Siestes Électroniques Festival, FRA Jacob Bilabel, Green Music Initiative, DE Nicolas Dahan, Les Connexions, FRA Stephane Harrouch, We Love Green Festival, FRA Chris Johnson, Green Festival Alliance / Julie’s Bicycle / Shambala Festival, UK François Missonier, Rock En Seine Festival Teresa Moore, Bucks New University, UK Bruno Rebelle, Transitions, FRA Marie Sabot, We Love Green Festival, FRA Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe Conference, DE & Yourope

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Practical information Kindly hosted by: We Love Green Festival, Paris with the support of: Azimuth Productions, Paris Date: From: Mon 08 April 2013, 10:00 To: Tue 09 April 2013, 16:00 Venue: Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall of the City of Paris) 29 Rue de Rivoli, 75004 Paris, France next metro stations: Hôtel de Ville (M1, M11) Fee:

EUR 200 (+VAT). Fee includes lunch on both days.

Yourope members get a EUR 50 discount for 1 participant.

Members of AIF receive a 10% discount.

Register here: Bucks University online store Hotel: many participants stay at the MamaShelter Hotel, 109 Rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris, France single rooms: from 89 € (incl VAT, WiFi), breakfast 15 € Get-together: there will be a casual get-together on the evening of sun 07 april at “La Maroquinerie” | 23 rue Boyer | 75020 Paris (This is for everybody travelling to Paris on sunday. This event is on own expenses.)

Dinner: there will be a networking dinner on the evening of mon 08 April at the restaurant “Comptoir Général” | 80 Quai de Jemmapes | 75010 Paris (food will be covered by Yourope – the European Festival Assoiciation – thanks a lot! Drinks are on own expenses.)

For further workshop info please contact Holger Jan Schmidt @ GreenEvents Europe tel: +49-(0)228-20 70 80 4 holger.schmidt@green-events-europe.eu

Violaine Philippe @ We Love Green tel: +33-(0)0-77 90 77 914 violaine.philippe@weloveart.net

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Speakers: Samuel Aubert Siestes Électroniques Festival

Graduated from art history Samuel Aubert is the founder and current director of the Festival Les Siestes Electroniques (Toulouse/Paris, France). He is also an expert in cultural affairs management and is working as such for local authorities. Since 2001, he has participated in many festivals, international networks and projects on cultural engineering. He has collaborated hand-in-hand with a large panel of representatives.

Jacob Bilabel Green Music Initiative Jacob Bilabel is Founder of the Green Music Initiative, which provides a platform for the music and entertainment industry to coordinate projects in the fight against climate change - with the objective to create demand for innovative and sustainable strategies - both from the climate and business points of view. Prior to that he worked in the management of Universal Music Germany. In the following years he set up MySpace's operations in Germany and became part of the social media advisory board of the Green Party. In the 2005 elections he was a personal consultant to Mr. Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister.Today, he is Managing Director of Berlin based think-do-tank THEMA1 specialised in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon society. He is a mentor at the Akademie der KĂźnste (University of the Arts) in Berlin and founding member of the ReDesign Deutschland initiative. Beside that he is board member of Berlin's Chamber of Commerce for Creative. Jacob Bilabel is also serving as a part of the German Technical mirror committee for the new ISO 20121 standard for Sustainability in Event Management.

Nicolas Dahan, Les Connexions, FRA

Les connexions was founded by Nicolas Dahan ten years ago in Alba La Romaine (next to MontĂŠlimar). He's been directing this non-profit organisation since. Specialised in events waste management, Les Connexions brings the tools, resources, equipment and knowledge adapted to each event, in order to make the waste sorting efficient.

Les Connexions are working on different types of events like music festivals (Rock en Seine, Le Printemps de Bourges etc.) or sports events like Marathon de Paris, 20Km de Paris et al..

The organisation is also working in partnership with several municipalities and Cantals in order to make people sensitive to recycling and waste management. Les Connexions' goal is to appeal to a wide audience: from young children to adult, from families to professionals, Les Connexions wants to make waste sorting Kindly hosted by become an easy act for everybody.

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Chris Johnson Shambala Festival, Green Festival Alliance, Julie's Bicycle

Chris is co-founder of Shambala Festival, running for over a decade and one of the greenest events in the UK, and is a Director of Kambe Events Ltd, managing events of up to 80,000 attendance. Shambala Festival has the A Greener Festival Award International Winner (2011), has been awarded Outstanding for 4 years in a row, was awarded The Most Sustainable Event in the UK Award 2009 (NOEA, UK), and is the only event ever to achieve 3 stars with Industry Green (Ig) certification in 2010. Chris is co-founder of the Green Festival Alliance (UK), an informal alliance of festivals, suppliers and industry organisations working together to actively tackle issues and develop innovations. Their focus in 2012 has been power efficiency and renewable solutions. A regular speaker at events, sustainability consultant, occasional lecturer and campaigner, Chris has a solid practical knowledge of how to implement initiatives on the ground, and industry-wide experience of sustainability at festival's. Chris also works with Julie's Bicycle, the UK's leading sustainability organisation in the creative industries.

François Missonier, Rock En Seine Festival His bio and pic to follow soon The French festival Rock en Seine was born in 2003. Today, Rock en Seine is one of the biggest festivals in France and among the most important musical events in Europe. It happens every year on the last week-end of August, in a wonderful park just outside Paris.

Every year, the festival invites the most exciting pop and rock bands, from big stars to new talents. Three scenes are arranged in a green French garden, where the audience can discover the actuality of rock, power pop, electro, folk and see exhibitions about rock.

Teresa Moore, Bucks New University

Teresa Moore is Head of Department at Buckinghamshire New University in charge of the University’s Music and Events Management programmes. After 10 years in commerce she moved into Higher Education and has taught at several institutions before joining Bucks New University Teresa is a founder member of GO Group, having a special interest in Sustainable Event Management. In 2012 she undertook a new study on audience attitudes to sustainability at festivals with A Greener Festival which followed on from the 2008 study. She has also carried out research with Julie’s Bicycle on “Audience Travel to One off Music Events” which was published in 2009. Teresa has initiated the development of a series of conferences and short courses on Sustainable Event Management at Bucks New University.

She has run the Green Events and Innovations Conference in collaboration with A Kindly hosted by Greener Festival and The Association of Independent Festivals since 2008 and regularly runs workshops and speaks at conferences.

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She is the Research Manager and Board member for the International Centre for Crowd Management and Security Studies and Chairman of the Association for Crowd Management Practitioners. She is co-founder and CEO of MC9 Music an independent music business.

Bruno Rebelle, Transitions

He graduated in 1981 from the French National Veterinary School in Lyon and opened his first vet’s surgery in 1984 in the Plateau du Vercors, Drôme, France. In the meantime, he founded Vétérinaires sans frontières (VSF) based in Lyon. He managed this NGO until 1996 and was alsoappointed to hold various mandates in national coalitions to represent aid and development NGOs. After 1996 Bruno Rebelle worked for two years as a private consultant on behalf of international institutions (f.e. EU, International Fund for Agriculture Development, WWF International, Care), focusing on development issues and natural resources management. In 1997, he joined Greenpeace France as Executive Director. He led the development of the French branch of the international environmental organization, growing from 18.000 supporters (end of 1997) to 70.000 (end of 2003) and significantly improving the public profile of the organization in the country.

Bruno Rebelle then joined the Senior Management Team of Greenpeace International in August 2003 in the position of International Program Director, leading the global program and coordinating campaigning activities, the communication, and the political work of Greenpeace all over the world. Bruno Rebelle left Greenpeace International at the end of 2006 and joined the team of Ségolène Royal, Socialist candidates for the Presidential election, as adviser on environment and sustainable development.

Since September 2007 he set up his own consultancy agency, Transitions offering strategic advices and engineering support to companies, regional government, city councils, NGOs and Foundations willing to genuinely engage in sustainable development.

Marie Sabot, We Love Green Founder of We Love Green Festival, Marie Sabot has an extensive experience in cultural events management of almost twenty years.

After graduating in Law, she joined the pop rock promoter Garance as a production assistant to learn the concert business. Then she did the artistic direction of a new alternative venue called Le Divan du Monde.

Around 2000 she moved into brand events, to be project manager for several agencies, and started investing unusual locations for memorable thematic and electronic parties, setting up shows with performers, light and video. In 2004, she decided to launch We Love Art, a cultural and entertainment event agency. One of its branch, the eco-conceived We Love Green Festival is a laboratory for new practices.

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Holger Jan Schmidt, GreenEvents Europe, Yourope is co-owner of the promoting agency of Europe's leading conference for sustainability in the live musc industry, GreenEvents Europe, Bonn Promotion Dept.. He is board member of the german Sounds for Nature Foundation e.V., that focuses on environmental issues at events and sustainability related communication projects towards a young target group. Schmidt was co-initiator of GO Group (Green Operations Europe) and being the anchorman for green issues of Yourope (the European Festival Association) he is part of the steering committee of GO Group. Schmidt looks back at more than twenty years with Germany's biggest admission-free festival RhEINKULTUR being in leading position from 1998 till the festival's last edition in 2011. Together with his colleagues he invented the ‘Green Rocks’-program that covered all sustainability and environmental issues of the festival, which was one of the greenest in Europe. Schmidt holds a diploma in media economics from Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln.

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About GO Group GO stands for Green Operations. GO Group is an independent, pan European and cross industry think-tank to inspire people in the music festival and events industry to run their operations greener and smarter. GO Group will: 1) Identify international best practices in sustainable innovations for the music festival and event industry 2) Build a Sustainability Training Curriculum for festival and event promoters in collaboration with Bucks University 3) Aggregate, communicate and share the collective knowledge with interested stakeholders from all over Europe 4) Establish working relationships between different industry groups to enable practical and spontaneous exchange of personal experiences Bucks New University, GreenEvents Europe Conference, Green Music Initiative (GMI) and Yourope (the European Festival Association) founded GO Group in early 2011 and made it an european institution for sustainable event management.

GO Group sucessfully carried out two international workshops in Amsterdam (2011) and Budapest (2012) and provided major contributions GreenEvents Europe Conference (GER), Medimex (I), Nuits Sonores (FRA) and Eurosonic/Noorderslag (NL).

GO Group @ 2nd international workshop in april 2012

30 participants at Sziget Headquarters, Budapest, Hungary GO Group contact: Holger Jan Schmidt @ GreenEvents Europe tel: +49-(0)228-20 70 80 4

holger.schmidt@green-events-europe.eu

Lena Buck @ Green Music Initiative tel: +49-(0)30-77 90 77 917

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