No matter how you approach the topic, COVID-19 will remain an important topic worldwide and in the stadium industry in 2021. Therefore, several of the programmed cases during ESSMA Spotlight will focus on adapting stadium life to COVID-19, its impact on crowd management, the ticketing distribution and overall adaptations linked to stadium operations.
Read more on the sustainability pledge of Arsenal FC, a recycled Olympique Lyonnais shirt, welcoming fans back to the Premier League and more in ESSMA’s industry update.
How 2021 will unfold in the stadium industry is a question no one can answer today. One certainty is that all members will need to be creative and collaborate to reach tangible results.
ESSMA is pleased to welcome back G2K as Corporate Partner to the ESSMA Community. G2K’s experience extends across all disciplines of value creation from data, from collection, transformation, correlations, networking to smart action derivation. With Parsifal, they have created their own AI which understands and evaluates complex situations and provides suitable proposals for action.
Read more on Liverpool FC’s new training centre, fan engagement at CD Leganés, safety protocols at FC Utrecht and more in ESSMA’s industry update.
ESSMA strives to create a new benchmark report to provide insight in the field stadium operations software
The RESTART-19 research project (Risk prediction of indoor Sports and culture events for the transmission of COVID- 19) analysed different scenarios for indoor events, also including air flow simulations. One portion of the project was a concert in the Quarterback Immobilien Arena Leipzig, part of RedBull Arena. During the concert, each participant received a contact tracer, a small device which collected the scientific data. The data was evaluated, modeled, calculated and verified over a period of several weeks.
Over the last couple of months ESSMA has expanded her network up to 11 Japanese clubs