IT’S GAME ON FOR THE BIGGEST, MOST GLOBAL ILMC YET With events in the physical world having forced the concert business offline, ILMC is inviting the industry’s top players to suit up, mount their light cycles and join us on the game grid for the virtual experience of the year – ILMC 33: Virtually Live. Featuring over 1,000 digital avatars drawn from across the live music matrix, ILMC 33 will be the largest and most international edition of the conference to date, with the online-only format allowing for a greater number of panels, meetings, keynotes, networking opportunities and after-hours events than ever before. Debuting in 2021 are two new conferenceswithin-a-conference, The Experience Economy Meeting (TEEM) and the tech-focused PULSE,
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while returning favourites include the ILMC Production Meeting (IPM), the Green Events & Innovations Conference (GEI) and the industry's Oscars equivalent, the Arthur Awards, which will stream live from the truly lavish Royal Albert Hall on 4 March. Also streaming live will be a series of showcases presented by the planet’s premier booking agencies, with other evening entertainment including the ever-popular quiz of the year and poker tourney, which – while taking place somewhere deep in hyperspace – is raising funds for the Stagehand Covid-19 crew relief fund back in the real world. Wherever that is. With this year’s conference, for the first time in ILMC history, open to both existing members and ILMC noobs, there’s no excuse for not logging on to live music’s greatest gathering between 3–5 March…