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Tour Management Mastery: Insights from Eventric

Managing Your Perimeter™ - May 15, 2024 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Welcome to the Eventric Podcast, where we share behind-the-scenes stories and insights from the world of touring and live events. Founded in 2000 as Production Consultants Guild, our goal was to revolutionize the touring industry by introducing data-driven applications to streamline the planning...

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Trailblazing in Tech: Liquid-Cooled Edge

Managing Your Perimeter™ - April 30, 2024 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Meet Andrew M. Riddaugh, the Co-Founder and CEO of Liberation Technology Services, where he spearheads groundbreaking cybersecurity solutions and liquid-cooled edge data centers. With extensive experience in both technology and politics, Andrew's leadership prowess was evident during his tenure ...

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Behind the Shield: "Cheating Death"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - April 16, 2024 21:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Welcome to the podcast where we delve into the fascinating journey of Ken Valentine, a distinguished security expert with a captivating career spanning over two decades. Ken's story unfolds in 1996 when he embarked on his Secret Service career as a Special Agent in Louisville, KY, showcasing his...

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Hidden Dimensions of Situational Awareness

Managing Your Perimeter™ - February 08, 2024 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of concert touring and risk management with our special guest, Mike McGrath. With over 35 years of experience in the industry, Mike shares his wealth of knowledge and expertise. From working with renowned artists to his academic background and martia...

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"Beyond the Stage"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - September 26, 2023 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Introducing Chris Lisle: A Lighting Designer and Production Manager with Over 30 Years of Touring and Production Experience. Join us in this exciting episode as we sit down with Chris Lisle, a seasoned professional with a wealth of experience spanning production, lighting design, and tour manag...

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Inside the Crowd

Managing Your Perimeter™ - September 07, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Safety in a crowd is paramount. Effective crowd management strategies, clear communication, and well-defined exit routes are essential to prevent accidents and ensure the well-being of all participants. Vigilance, crowd awareness, and cooperation among attendees and event organizers are key to c...

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"No Boundaries"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - February 16, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Having fun is an essential aspect of events, but ensuring the safety and security of attendees is equally important. Perimeter security plays a critical role in safeguarding against potential threats such as terrorism, crime, and violence and preventing unauthorized access, allowing everyone to ...

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"No Boundaries™"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - February 16, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Having fun is an essential aspect of events, but ensuring the safety and security of attendees is equally important. Perimeter security plays a critical role in safeguarding against potential threats such as terrorism, crime, and violence and preventing unauthorized access, allowing everyone to ...

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The Science of Crowd Control 2

Managing Your Perimeter™ - December 23, 2022 22:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Crowds are strange animals. Individuals will do things as part of a crowd that they wouldn’t do on their own. But crowds are manageable… there’s actually a whole science dedicated to crowd behavior. In this mini-podcast series The Science of Crowd Control, we’ll get insight from crowd management...

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The Science of Crowd Control™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - October 31, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Crowds are strange animals. Individuals will do things as part of a crowd that they wouldn’t do on their own. But crowds are manageable… there’s actually a whole science dedicated to crowd behavior. In this mini-podcast series The Science of Crowd Control, we’ll get insight from crowd management...

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"Security Outside the Perimeter™"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - September 01, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
When a major event happens in a crowded city center, what constitutes the perimeter can be fluid. In this episode, we’re joined by Friend of the Podcast Mike Ready to discuss how to engage with the public who are going about their business outside the event perimeter.  How do you talk about sec...

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Giving Kids the Safety They Deserve™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - March 29, 2022 22:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
School safety is, of course, an essential facet of larger considerations of community safety. It can seem like every school year offers uncomfortable insight into the vulnerabilities of our schools. But there is hope. In our latest episode, Jason Russell returns to offer his thoughts around the ...

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"Year in Review™"

Managing Your Perimeter™ - February 07, 2022 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
ARCUS Group recaps the first season.   Its More Than Fence™ The Life of Festivals - Going Live Again™ The Covid Files: Event Security After a Pandemic™ The Covid Files: What Does the Data Tell Us™ The Crowd Control Challenge™ The Power of Good Fence™ 360 Event Security: In and Out™ Deconflict a...

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COMS Security For Everybody™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - December 07, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Organizations have more channels to communicate with the world than ever before, but with flexibility comes increased security exposure for vital, mission critical communications. In this episode we’re joined by Joe Ruiz from WITCOM an innovator in the field of secure communications for military...

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SPECIAL EPISODE: ARCUS Group Talks Astroworld Festival™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - November 12, 2021 20:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
As the recent tragic events in Houston show us, unruly crowds can be dangerous, even deadly. How do you create a safe space for a huge gathering of people, each with different goals, as well as different emotional and mental states?  How do you build out a temporary space that is easy to navigat...

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Deconflict and Security™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - September 28, 2021 22:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The most visible components of security are personnel and hardware, but those are just aspects of a larger story. The right mindset is also a huge contributing factor to successful security outcomes. For this podcast episode, we’re joined by Jason Russell, founder and CEO of SEC, Inc. SEC provid...

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360 Event Security: In and Out™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - September 14, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
On this episode, we sit down with Hannah Salem Stone and Virginia Beckett, from Salem Strategies LLC. These two women who have made their mark in the event planning and security space. Their perspective is a little different than our podcast team’s: they specialize in keeping event interiors sa...

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The Power of a Good Fence™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - June 25, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Today we’re talking hardware, specifically fencing. Our guest is David Mackay, founder and owner of F1rst Fence, manufacturer of the Spring Fence, which has successfully contained large crowds for events across North America since 2011. David has 20+ years experience producing top quality shows ...

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The Crowd Control Challenge™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - June 08, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Successful crowd control is more nuanced than you might think. It requires constant observation and quick judgement. Its success also requires subtlety: often times successful crowd control is about how little anyone notices you doing your job. In this episode, we sit down with Garry McCarthy, f...

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The Covid Files: What Does the Data Tell Us?™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - May 10, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Continuing with the theme from our last episode, we take another look at what the world might look like, post-Covid. What does the data tell us about the spread of new strains and how we should plan for them? To find out more, we talk to Mario Daigle, Senior Director of Analytics for the incubat...

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The Covid Files: Event Security After A Pandemic™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - April 08, 2021 21:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
While we’re not quite out of the woods yet, there’s reason for hope. But what does a post-Covid world look like in the event space? How do we maintain safety protocols and still pull off successful events? What, if anything, has changed permanently? In this episode of Managing Your Perimeter™, w...

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The Life of Festivals Going Live Again™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - March 23, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Music festivals have come a long way from Woodstock (and the infamous Altamont). Today’s festivals offer dazzling audience experiences in a safe and carefully planned environment. It appears as if music festivals are back this summer, as we come out from under the shadow of COVID.  Our guest th...

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It's More Than Fence™

Managing Your Perimeter™ - March 05, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
PJ and Mel chat with Mike Ready, former Supervising Special Agent with the United States Secret Service and current director of Production and Event Security for a Fortune 500 company. They talk about planning and preparation (sometimes there’s too MUCH time to prepare for an event), the gritty ...

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