1. Integrating Risk, Project & Event Management for Major Events & Festivals
Bill O’Toole Event Project Management System – Sydney,

2. Event and Festival Management as an Complex, Dynamic (Integrated) System
A change in one area
can be a ripple or a tsumani
Made up of interrelated parts - but subject to interaction of independent agents
It’s just solving problems

3. Simplified diagram is

4. Event Project Matrix- Areas of knowledge and phases
Scope
Event Project Matrix- Areas of knowledge and phases
Marketing
Finance
Time (deadline)
Design
Initiation
Planning
Implementation
Event
Shutdown
Risk
Procurement
Human resources
Stakeholders
Communication

5. Design

6. Risk

7. Stakeholders

8. Time (deadline)

9. Application
Doha Asian Games 2006 and the development of project plans to integrate the management
Risk : siloing
Solution is a integrated system using event project management as the terminology - for example the identification of deliverables

10. Conclusion
The role of event and festival management on a large scale is the integration of a series of plans and their management by means of identifying deliverables and their monitoring . Risk is embedded in each of these plans and their management and provides the agent to control the dynamic, evolving complex system.