Crowd Density Management

Lecturer 4: Morten Therkildsen
Role: Role: Director of Safety and Guest Relations, Roskilde Festival Group

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Thursday 1 October 2026

13:00 CET

What you will learn

Crowd density management is not a back office concern at the events Morten works on, it is a central operational discipline where the margin for error is zero. This session gives you tools that matter at every scale of event, whether you run a 500 seat theatre or a 90,000 seat stadium.

How arrival profiles shape the risk environment before a single person has entered the venue
How crowd psychology determines what happens when space runs out
How deploying the right resources outside the venue can prevent problems that are much harder to solve once people are inside
How AI is increasingly used for people counting and real time crowd monitoring, and what that means for how you think about safety

Speakers

About Morten Therkildsen
Morten Therkildsen has worked in safety and crowd management at Roskilde Festival, one of Europe's largest music festivals with 135,000 attendees a day, since 2011, and has led the festival's safety and guest relations as director since 2024. Through the festival's commercial enterprise RFX, he has taken that expertise to some of the most demanding events in the world, including UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals, the Eurovision Song Contest, WorldPride and Formula 1 at Silverstone. He sits on the steering committee of the Yourope Event Safety Group and on the committee of the Institute of Venue Safety and Security, and he has appeared twice on the Don't Forget Your Tickets podcast, including its 50th episode anniversary special.

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