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Breaking Through: the shift from niche to mainstream

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A fireside chat between some mainstays in immersive entertainment, discussing the journey from the early days of crowd funded experiments to mainstream global attractions.

Bringing together the different perspectives of operator and publicist, we’ll be wandering through a wide-ranging conversation including lessons learnt from experiences didn’t make it, what the difference is between ideas being pitched now compared to pre-COVID and what the future of the space may look like from their perspective.

Ruth Read
Blooloop

Ruth is a director at blooloop, the world’s most-read news platform for the visitor attractions industry, covering everything from theme parks and museums to immersive experiences. She leads blooloop’s work in the immersive space and plays a key role in the blooloop Innovation Awards with AREA15, as well as the annual blooloop 50 Immersive Influencer list. A passionate conservationist, Ruth also heads blooloop’s sustainability conference, greenloop.

Meri Mance
Mance Communications

Meritaten is the Founder and Director of Mance Communications, an award nominated PR agency specializing in lifestyle and immersive experiences, a proactive and high-profile results-driven company who have worked with some of the biggest names in the industry and were one of the very first in the sector to recognize the potential growth of the experience lifestyle market.

With 25 years expertise across hospitality, drinks, travel and luxury brands, she has been pivotal in driving the awareness of high capacity/large footfall venues and ticket sales of major experiential clients and brands and her strategic approach has helped shape the experience industry

Tom Lionetti-Maguire
Little Lion Entertainment

CEO & Founder of Little Lion Entertainment; creators of immersive attractions The Crystal Maze LIVE Experiences in the UK & Internationally and the Tomb Raider Live Experience, as well as live video-gaming concept the Arcade Arena, with games such as Chaos Karts and PAC-MAN Live, with many more to come…
In 2019, Tom was named in The Sunday Times 100 Entrepreneurs of the Year.

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