Increased attendance at successful ISCEx 2018
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Open to members and non-members, the ISCEx exhibition and seminar programme is precluded by the Institute’s annual general meeting and networking dinner events, held on the previous day.
The ISCEx 2018 seminar programme was kicked off by Dr Chris Cocking, senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton presenting the Hopkins-Baldwin Lecture, a presentation entitled Busting the Myths of Mass Evacuation. Following extensive research by Chris and his colleagues into crowd behaviour during emergencies and the implications for crowd safety management during mass evacuations, this presentation was engaging and enlightening.
Hanieh Motamedian, business development manager for Sound Directions and Sam Wise, design director at Venue Strategies followed with the Warren-Barnett Memorial Lecture, discussing the benefits of sound masking in the corporate workplace and the positive effects on patient recovery in healthcare environments and the effects of sound on the human brain.
Matthew Archer, technical product specialist at Audio-Technica, presented the third seminar of the day, entitled Don’t drop the Ball, highlighting some of the steps involved in utilising large numbers of wireless microphones in high-profile, large capacity and live global sports broadcasts.
Jim Smith, AECOM comments, “I’ve attended several ISCEx events, I enjoy the seminars and the networking opportunities, ISCEx represents a great opportunity to catch up with industry colleagues. The event is growing year by year and this year looks like record attendances, again.”
Neil Voce, head of business development at ASL comments, “I’ve attended most of the ISCEx events to date, it always provides an opportunity to think about something you might not otherwise have considered in your working life every day, it’s good to hear things from others’ perspectives and the ISCEx seminar programme provides that.”
In addition to the seminar programme, 35 exhibitors report very positive engagement from ISCEx attendees with the exhibition room proving to have a steady flow of visitors throughout the day.
(Jim Evans)
