It was great to finally reconnect with old friends, make new connections and explore the future of our sector’s development across the region.

As our photo gallery testifies, lots of smiles and bright ideas all ’round. Until next time!

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“Our objective for this meeting is to explore and navigate the big issues facing our sector but to localise and focus the content and learnings specifically for this amazing region,” says Ian Nuttall, Co-Founder, TheTicketingBusiness.

Ian will be hosting several session and panel discussions, as well as sharing an overview of the technology and best practice adoptions across Europe and North America which could provide a roadmap for Asia’s entertainment businesses.

Exploring the opportunities for live music touring (and residences!) across the region, industry leader Jason Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Eventim Live Asia joins the line-up. Prior to establishing Eventim Live Asia, he led all touring activity for Live Nation Entertainment’s Asian and Middle East offices, he has worked with the biggest names in music, leading a team that has produced 80 percent of the highest-grossing Asian tours for Western artists over the past decade. From Madonna to Coldplay, Bruno Mars to U2, Jason’s expertise and experience has shaped the landscape of live events in the region.

Exploring the opportunities for touring and music exchanges across China, Lesley Zhang, Managing Director, The Creative China will draw on her experiences in cross-border collaboration and removing barriers to business.

Also picking up the focus on live music touring, we welcome back Michael Hosking, Founder, Midas Promotions who has been promoting and presenting international artists across Asia for more than four decades. In addition to the headline acts, Midas Promotions also promotes theatre-based productions and consults on all aspects of the live international entertainment market, offering its expertise in talent procurement, marketing and promotion strategies with local production services.

Local key partners – representing one of the future ‘must-play’ venues in the region – we welcome Darren Burden, Executive Director, and James Irvine, Director (Commercial), Kai Tak Sports Park. With a 50,000-capacity, harbourside retractable roof stadium, a sports ground and an indoor 10,000-capacity multi-purpose venue to programme, Kai Tak Sports Park is set to be one of the most visible new venues around.

NFT and Web3 offer the opportunity to fundamentally change how we market, distribute and manage our tickets. Emil Ljesnjanin, CEO & Founder, NFT-TiX takes us through the scope of opportunities – anchored in a selection of real-world case studies.

One of the most lucrative (post-pandemic) opportunities for upsale lies with ticket refund protection. Joe Calnan, Partnerships Director, Cover Genius offers a deep-dive into how, why and where ticket-buyers are buying protection – and how the latest insurtech software makes it easy for rightsholders and agencies to offer these add-on services.

Alongside moderating a few key discussions, entertainment ticketing sector mentor Tim Chambers, Managing Director, TJChambers Consultancy returns to TheTicketingBusiness ASIA to offer his ‘well-travelled and worldly-wise’ insights on all that’s new, emerging and established practice across our industry.

Meet all these experts and tap into the entertainment sector across the region! Get in touch to book your pass for this year’s TheTicketingBusiness ASIA meeting!

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Taking the lead is the most-anticipated sports and entertainment destination in Asia – Kai Tak Sports Park – as our future host event partner.

The founding event partnership further extends to two of the key partners behind this landmark development: ASM Global – the world’s leading venue operator – and Populous, the world’s leading venue design practice.

Key executives from all three organisations will be in attendance at TheTicketingBusiness ASIA (#TAS23) this October, with its experts joining key panels and breakout discussions. Furthermore, these partners will have access and visibility across the event lifecycle – through related marketing and the new, regional TheTicketingBusiness ASIA e-newsletter.

Kai Tak Sports Park will be a showcase for the very latest in fan experience, venue technology and operations.

“Bringing people together is what everyone in the sports and entertainment sector does for a living. And as our sector restarts and reinvents itself after the losses, shutdowns and closures of the pandemic, sourcing best practice from the best in our business makes so much sense,” says Ian Nuttall, Founder, TheTicketingBusiness. “We are honoured to partner with not only the most exciting new venue in the region but to also have alongside the world’s leading venue operating group and the sector’s global leader in venue design and architecture.

He adds: “The key to our sector’s re-imagining is the sharing of ideas and inspiration to create safer, more creative and ever more engaging guest experiences. We are very happy to be sharing the lessons from these giants of the sector as we build TheStadiumBusiness ASIA into THE regional meeting for our sector.”

“Never has it been more important for the industry to come together to share ideas, innovate and redefine industry best practice,” stated John Sharkey, Project Director from Kai Tak Sports Park. “Kai Tak Sports Park will be a showcase for the very latest in fan experience, venue design and operations. We look forward to supporting this event to gather the region’s sports and entertainment leaders in Hong Kong as this mega-project moves from construction to operation.”

This initial agreement forms part of a strategic plan to develop the meeting over the years in Hong Kong, growing as the key elements of Kai Tak Sports Park open their doors.

Join us in Hong Kong on 17-18 October as we explore the future of design, operations and technology for Asia’s sports and entertainment venues – only at TheTicketingBusiness ASIA 2023 (#TAS23).

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We’re delighted to welcome back these supporters of our launch meeting:

• EVENTIM LIVE ASIA is a new partnership between CEO Jason Miller and CTS EVENTIM, one of the world’s top three live entertainment companies. Headquartered in Singapore, EVENTIM LIVE ASIA will focus on the rapidly growing live entertainment markets in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. The company is run by Miller, who previously led all touring activity for Live Nation Entertainment’s Asia and Middle East offices, working with the world’s biggest artists and most powerful brands. Miller produced 80 percent of the last decade’s highest-grossing Asian tours for Western artists, including Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Madonna, Maroon 5, U2, and countless others.
• Queue-it is the leading developer of virtual waiting room services to control website and app traffic surges, by offloading visitors to a waiting line environment. Queue-it enables venues, ticketing, and event platforms across the globe to keep their systems online and fans informed, blocking malicious bots and creating a personalized waiting experience on their most business-critical days.

New for 2023, we also now welcome:

• Cover Genius is the insurtech for embedded protection. Through XCover, its global distribution platform for any insurance or other type of protection, the company protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, Intuit,, Ryanair, Icelandair, Turkish Airlines, Ola, Descartes ShipRush and SeatGeek. It is also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Its event and ticketing partners also include AXS, Seetickets, Moshtix, Tessitura, Secutix, AudienceView, Zaiko, Freshtix, NIGHTOUT, TicketSource and more.
• NFT-TiX is a robust, scalable, fair and transparent home for event organizers and attendees to engage in a ticketing experience for the 21st century. NFT-TiX is a proven solution for events of 5,000+ attendees utilizing blockchain technology and a forward-thinking business model (such as % of ticket re-sale revenue going to the event organizer) to address the major issues that plague the ticketing industry and ultimately hurt the consumer, as well as adding new features that will revolutionize how we think about tickets. NFT-TiX “empowers and promotes the relationship between the event organizers and attendees without the need of middlemen, firmly putting the power back in the hands of the stakeholders.”

A limited number of #TAS23 meeting partnerships and exhibition opportunities are available. To discuss presenting your products and services to our regional audience at #TAS23, please get in touch here.

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We’ve been asked by many friends and partners in the industry to take its successful event formula (= conference + content x networking) to other markets. Hence the launch of TheTicketingBusiness ASIA in 2019.

Post-pandemic, we are delighted to confirm our second edition of TheTicketingBusiness ASIA. This meeting will bring together for the first time Asia’s arts, attractions, sport and entertainment ticketing sector’s key thinkers, leaders and disruptors.

We look forward to hosting you in Hong Kong for what promises to be another landmark event.

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