Festival & event operations

Bookr.fm is a B2B SaaS platform designed for music festival programmers and concert venue bookers to centralize and automate their workflow. The platform manages artist submissions, provides analytics and streaming data through partnership with Soundcharts, enables team collaboration, and handles offer management, budgets, and scheduling. It replaces scattered email, spreadsheet, and file-based workflows with a unified system for discovering emerging talent and making programming decisions.

CooProg is a free, open-source digital platform that enables performing arts and music programmers across Europe to coordinate touring schedules and co-program artists. The platform allows venues and organizations to share programming intentions, visualize tour routing geographically, and build collaborative tours that minimize travel distances and carbon emissions. Users can search for partners interested in specific artists, manage scheduling from early intentions to confirmed dates, and communicate via integrated chat to coordinate sustainable, geographically coherent tours.

FestivalPro is a cloud-based event management software platform designed specifically for festivals, conferences, and large-scale events. The platform provides comprehensive 360-degree event lifecycle management including artist/performer management, vendor coordination, staff/volunteer management, stage scheduling, integrated ticketing with QR codes, guest management, and marketing tools. Founded in 2018 by developers with over 10 years of festival production experience, the platform now serves 550+ events worldwide across music festivals, food festivals, conferences, and cultural events.

Beat Lounge is a circular economy project by Prewaste that collects plastic waste generated at music festivals and transforms it into durable, 100% recyclable outdoor furniture (benches) through an in-house R&D process. The project offers festivals a full environmental accompaniment service including waste management, emissions calculation, and impact reporting. Furniture is offered under a rental/servitization model, enabling festivals to use circular products without direct purchase. The model is designed to be replicable and scalable across different territories and event formats.

SureShot is a Copenhagen-based B2B SaaS platform that enables event organizers to collect, curate, and redistribute user-generated video content (UGC) captured by attendees at live events. Using a PIN-gated system, audience members contribute footage via a mobile app, which is instantly uploaded to an organizer dashboard for AI-assisted curation and management. The platform targets a wide range of events including concerts, festivals, sports events, corporate gatherings, and weddings. Organizers can repurpose and reshare the curated content back to attendees in a TikTok-style browsing experience to drive fan engagement and community building.

Happaning is an AI-powered multi-view video platform that captures, synchronises, and transforms fan-generated content at live events into immersive viewing experiences, sponsorship analytics, and brand ROI reporting. Powered by patented ViiVid® technology, the platform enables fans to contribute video footage without downloading an app, aggregating crowd-sourced content into a unified multi-angle archive. The platform includes AI-driven logo detection for sponsorship visibility tracking, real-time Jumbo Screen integration, and content rights management, serving event organisers, brands, and agencies.

FireVolt is a portable power bank rental service that allows users to charge their devices on the go via a network of smart charging stations. Users rent a power bank by tapping their card or scanning a QR code, use it to charge their device, and return it to any FireVolt station. The service targets high-traffic venues — including restaurants, hotels, festivals, and events — offering stations at no cost to venue partners while monetising through time-based consumer rental fees. FireVolt currently operates in multiple Spanish cities including Barcelona and was selected as the official charging infrastructure provider for MWC Barcelona 2026.

Nevent is a B2B SaaS CRM and omnichannel marketing platform built specifically for the live events industry. It enables venues, festivals, and promoters to capture, centralize, and activate audience data through email, SMS, WhatsApp, and AI-powered chatbot campaigns. The platform integrates with leading ticketing systems to build enriched fan profiles, enabling segmented marketing, gamified data capture, and real-time analytics. Its core value proposition is replacing generic CRM tools with an events-native solution that understands the unique data and communication patterns of recurring live events.

Nysus Pro is an end-to-end platform for booking live talent, contract management, and payments in the live events and creative industries. It combines escrow-based payments, automated contract creation, proof-of-work delivery verification, and payout splitting into a single workflow. The platform targets agencies, brands, venues, and individual creators seeking to eliminate ghost bookings, payment disputes, and administrative overhead in live performance booking.

Festiverso is a comprehensive digital platform for managing and promoting music festivals, consisting of a web-based administration panel for organizers and native mobile apps (Android/iOS) for attendees. It handles lineup management, scheduling, automated roadmap generation, artist contest and voting management, real-time push notifications, and sponsor metrics. The platform is open-source (GNU AGPLv3), designed with full accessibility compliance, and includes gender equity data tracking and sustainability reporting features. It is developed by Simbiótica Tech, a Spanish workers' cooperative, and targets independent promoters and municipalities seeking an end-to-end, ethically-designed festival management solution.

FestivApp is a customizable mobile event guide that allows attendees to browse programs, plan schedules, and receive real-time updates for multiple festivals and conferences through a single app. Event organizers can manage content, customize branding, and send push notifications via a web-based administration portal. The platform operates a freemium B2B SaaS model with paid tiers ranging from €100 to €1,000+ per event, serving 250+ events across 10+ countries since 2016. An AI-powered feature set for organizers is currently in development.

Escena 4.0 is a modular, energy-positive cultural infrastructure system based on a plug-and-play geodesic dome that can be rapidly configured as a stage, cinema, or immersive theatre in minutes. The system integrates automated rigging, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), immersive LED/AV technology, and spatial audio design, reducing assembly times by up to 60% and operational costs by up to 45%. It targets festivals, cities, education, sports, and emergency/defence applications through a combined sales, renting, and leasing model with proprietary IP and industrial-academic partnerships. The project is preparing pilots and demonstrations at ISE 2026, MIDEM 2026, and MWC 2026 within the EIT Culture & Creativity ecosystem.

Full & Fast provides clean, silent, and portable energy solutions for the audiovisual and events industry through its GreenEel systems, replacing traditional fossil-fuel generators with electric alternatives. The company offers flexible rental models (daily, weekly, monthly) without fixed installation requirements, serving film productions, live events, and other audiovisual projects. In addition to energy supply, Full & Fast helps clients measure, reduce, and offset their carbon footprint, supporting a more sustainable and efficient production process.

Fundación Music For All is a Spanish nonprofit that drives accessibility and inclusion in live music and culture, ensuring people with disabilities can fully participate in festivals and cultural events. It offers a quality certification seal for festivals and venues, accessibility consulting and training programs, and a consumer-facing mobile app (Festivalesaccesibles.com) to help audiences discover accessible events. The foundation also runs the Observatorio Inclusivo de la Música, a research observatory developed in partnership with the University of Granada, collecting and publishing data on accessibility levels across Spanish music festivals.

FirstMove is a consent-first social discovery platform for live events and physical venues, built around geofencing, mutual consent mechanics, and ephemeral profiles. The platform enables attendees to connect with others in the same physical space through a 3-Way Handshake system — a step-by-step mutual opt-in process that only activates when both parties express interest. Venues and event organisers pay for the 'Presence Layer' (a branded VibeZone activation), while consumers use the app for free. The platform is designed to disappear when users leave the geofenced space, leaving no persistent social graph or data trail.

QueueAway is a cloud-based virtual queue management platform that allows customers to join queues remotely via QR code or link, track their position in real time, and receive notifications when it's their turn. The system requires no dedicated hardware and works across smartphones, tablets, and computers, targeting SMEs and enterprises in retail, hospitality, healthcare, barbershops, and events. For live events specifically, QueueAway offers a branded Virtual Wait Room enabling fans to queue digitally for entry, bars, or merchandise stands without missing the action.