Venue:
Room 2, 1st Floor, Novotel London Bridge
September 11, 2025
10:00
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10:45
How can festivals drive authentic and impactful change in a time of constant uncertainty and crisis? This session invites participants to take a dive into the role festivals play in the future and how organisers can take on responsibility — not just towards the audience, but towards society at large.
Recognizing that festivals increasingly work with multiple bottom lines - cultural, social, environmental, and financial - opens up a path for more holistic and responsible decision-making. Drawing on examples from Roskilde Festival’s work as a non-profit and charitable festival, the panel will explore how to drive positive transformation.
By adopting a comprehensive approach to festival planning, the session will highlight how festivals can impact not just their immediate communities, but also the broader world around them.
Roskilde Festival
Mika Christoffersen is Head of Participation and Diversity at the Roskilde Festival group, working closely with safety to ensure that a more diverse group of people can participate and thrive at live events and festivals.
Mika is the lead on Roskilde’s social sustainability work focused on inclusion leadership and equal access, as well as doing consultancy work with other festivals, venues and live-events to ensure the inclusion and well-being of young people in the cultural industries.
Mika Christoffersen has a background in behavioural design, event management and teaching leadership and communications.
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Music Leaders Network
Tamara Gal-On has been a creative industries coach since 2003. Since 2008 she has focused predominantly on working in the Music Industry. In that time, she has worked with Warner Chappell, the Music Publishers’ Association, PRS Foundation, Help Musicians UK, Brighter Sound, Nordic Music Export, Iceland Airwaves Festival, Ginger Owl Productions and Tallinn Music Week among others.
Tamara is the co-founder of Music Leaders Network, a transformational leadership programme for mid-career women and non-binary people in the music industry. The focus of her coaching practice is supporting her clients to achieve career longevity (if not career serenity) by helping them to stop flirting with burnout and instead build intuition led, values based careers instead.
Tamara works internationally, mainly with women, including artists and managers, executives and freelancers from across the wider music industry from publishing to live, labels to music charities.
