- The entire festival spread out over a 5.5 km purpose-built site housing 8 dynamic stages where more than 150 acts performed over three days for more than 450,000 visitors.
- PRG played a pivotal role in supporting Creative Director and Lead Designer Alex Reardon's vision, providing rigging, video, lighting, audio and automation for the festival's centerpiece, the Big Beast stage.
- Beyond the technical aspects, the project emphasized collaboration across disciplines and PRG entities, involving teams spanning Germany, the UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Approximately 109 onsite personnel were engaged and 60-100 individuals working remotely.
- Read the article to hear directly from Alex Reardon about his expert creative direction, and understand what makes this event so unique from both a design and cultural perspective.
In 2002 Olaf started his career in the event industry at the company AVTV, which was later acquired by Procon multimedia AG. While working here first as a technician and later as a project planner, he worked on a number of large productions such as the German casting show DSDS (2005 - 2013).
In 2012 Olaf started his own business and worked as freelance video project planner until 2014 on various major events in different segments including the IOC lottery Buenos Aires, the Skoda World Dealer Converence 2014 in Valencia and the Olympic Games in Sotchi 2014.
Since 2014, Olaf is now an established part of our PRG team as Head of Video Project Management & Technology and is responsible for the various video technology projects.