FestForums Santa Barbara || 2016 Info Deck || FestForums.com || FestForums Santa Barbara Overview ||
2015 – A Meeting of the Minds: Glastonbury Festival’s Robert Richards meets Hawaii Food & Wine Festival’s Chef Roy Yamaguchi at FestForums Santa Barbara.
FestForums Santa Barbara is an interactive conference and networking event for music, film, and food + beverage festival organizers. Addressing cutting-edge technology, talent, ticketing, scheduling, merchandising, operations, sustainability, charitable work, innovation and safety, FestForums bring together festivals and events of all sizes for collaboration and professional development. The conference culminates with "Best of the Fests," an annual festival award ceremony recognizing North America’s leading festivals.
2015 FestForums Santa Barbara 2016 FestForums NYC & Santa Barbara NYC Santa Barbara Participant/attendee information • 300+ attendees • 800+ attendees • 550+ attendees • 30+ speakers • 100+ speakers • 92 speakers • 44 sponsors • 100+ sponsors • 87 sponsors • 12 exhibitors • 40+ exhibitors* • 22 exhibitors
* featured as conference centerpiece || 2016 FestForums Santa Barbara ||
Sat – Mon, November 19-21, 2016 – FestForum Santa Barbara, Fess Parker Resort, Santa Barbara, CA
What: The Who’s Who of Festival Industry Leaders in one place!
Why: Because collaboration, networking, education and sharing ideas is how we grow and strengthen our industry.
Who’s There: Vans Warped Tour, LA Food & Wine, SXSW, Live Nation, South Beach Wine & Food, San Francisco International Film Festival, Life Is Beautiful, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, Coachella, AC Entertainment, Atlanta Food & Wine, Austin Food & Wine, San Luis Obispo Film Festival, Global Citizen Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Summerfest, Insomniac, SFX, and hundreds of North American Festivals plus celebs, actors, musicians, media & lots of top notch industry influencers.
Onsite Events: Winetasting, experiential marketing, sponsorship seminars, mentoring, dedicated trade show hours (situated in the center of the conference - can’t miss it!), cocktail receptions, parties, brunches, trade show floor and structured networking - hundreds of qualified buyers possessed with decision-making authority.
Sponsor Benefits: High exposure and intimate access to event decision makers, special event sponsorship, speaking opportunities, panel invitations, exhibit hall activations, naming opportunities, branded conference pieces, signage, digital and social media features. Let’s brainstorm!
“With so many great minds and event organizers in one place [at FestForums], ideas and opportunities will be abundant.”
– Forbes Sept 17, 2015
|| FestForums Board of Advisors ||
“FestForums was all you could have asked for in its inaugural year. The attendees, location and curation were all you could have hoped for and more. This will become a staple on my conference schedule for years to come.”
- Kevin Lyman, Founder Vans Warped Tour & CEO 4fini FestForums Santa Barbara || Fess Parker Resort || Nov 19-21, 2016 || Representative 2015 Music Festivals ||
Coachella StageCoach Insomniac Bonnaroo Lollapalooza SXSW Vans Warped Tour Disco Donnie - SFX Austin City Limits Global Citizen Festival Live Nation Life Is Beautiful || Representative 2015 Film Festivals & Companies ||
SXSW San Francisco Int’l Film Fest Bentonville Film Festival Eat Drink Films Rhino Films Mill Valley Film Festival Hollywood Shorts Film Fest The Weinstein Company Montreal - Animaze San Luis Obispo Film Festival || 2015 Representative Food & Beverage Festivals ||
South Beach Food & Wine
Los Angeles Food & Wine
Austin Food & Wine Festival
Pebble Beach Food & Wine
Charleston Wine + Food
Zinfandel Experience
Atlanta Food & Wine
Hawaii Food & Wine
New York City Food & Wine
“FestForums is rapidly becoming our key stop to meet the next generation of festival vendors and brainstorm with potential sponsors on future activities. The balance of official sessions with casual interaction time is perfect — and the setting is gorgeous.”
- Noah Cowan Executive Director, San Francisco Film Society
“All of us organizers rarely get to connect when we're in non-event mode and this was a great opportunity to come together and exchange ideas.”
- Devonie Nicholas Public Relations Director, Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach and New York City Wine & Food Festivals || 2015 FestForums Santa Barbara Highlights ||
• Tasting of 20+ vineyards and Lagunitas beers • Fiesta Riviera Opening Night Dinner Party • Dave Mason Private Concert • FireChat After Party • BackStage Networks wine and beer reception • 25 panels including Festival Boot Camp • Two keynotes (Roy Yamaguchi, Scott Mirkin) • One Film centerpiece • Three parties • Two brunches • Best Of the Fest Awards Ceremony
• NetGain Networking with 2 airline ticket prizes • Delta SponsorFest with Lesa Ukman • Two $10,000 Delta Sponsorship Awards to Festivals • Mentoring with Kevin Lyman, Hannah Houser, & many more • Full Dome projection mapping exhibit || 2016 FestForums NYC Highlights || “Festforum brought together an interesting group of Festival professionals, covering every genre of event. This made for a fascinating, and energised three days of panels, and discussions. A Festival of Festivals.”
- Robert Richards Commercial Director, Glastonbury Festival
“The experience at FestForums was very positive for me, as well as for all of the attendees, because it really was about building relationships and helping people succeed.”
- Roy Yamaguchi Chef-Founder, Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine - Hawaii Food & Wine Festival || 2015 FestForums Media Impressions ||
l 592,068 Impressions (per TiqIQ-11/30/2015) l Jambase - 200,000+ Impressions l Society 805 - 3744 Impressions l Eventbrite- 900 Impressions l Website visitors for 2015 - 46,327 l Eblast Outreach - +14,000. 40 e-blasts. Average Open rate 17%, Average click rate 0.4. l Sched App Downloads 302+ l Facebook page views 700+ 315 page likes (57% female-largest age group-25-35 women) l Twitter followers 700+ “As a sponsor of FestForums, Vendini was extremely impressed with the caliber of the event; first class setting, well organized, beautifully executed and high level attendees. If you work in the festival industry, or want to, this conference is a must attend.”
- Keith Goldberg Chief Revenue Officer, Vendini, Inc.
“We love FestForums! From the opening words, through all the handshakes and conversations to the larger perspective we were able to gain, FestForums was truly impactful to our team and our business.” – Leo Stanko President, OTW Safety
|| 2015 Post Event Survey Reveals Attendees Shopping For: ||
• Barricades • Insurance • Merchandise • Mobile Apps • Recycling • Rentals/Staging/Tenting • Staffing • Talent • Technology • Ticketing • Venues/Hotels • WiFi
|| 2015 Best of the Fests || Pictured left to right: Denise Yamaguchi – Executive Director Hawaii Food & Wine; Chef Roy Yamaguchi – Co-Founder Hawaii Food & Wine, Laurie Kirby – Co-President FestForums; Malcolm McDowell – Actor; Dave Mason – Musician; Shep “Supermensch” Gordon – Talent Manager; Alice Cooper – Rockstar; Stuart MacNaught – Co-President FestForums FestForums.com Please Join Us!
November 19-21, 2016 FestForums Santa Barbara, CA
Contact Laurie Kirby or Stuart MacNaught at
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