Events Services - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
epic is focused on large-scale sporting event strategic planning and operational integration and has extensive, wide-ranging experience…11 Olympic Games, 2 FIFA World Cups, 2 Pan Am Games, 2 Special Olympics World Games, 2 Olympic Bid Committees, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and more.This experience – spanning four decades – and broad perspective enables epic to provide clients with customized options to ensure a successful event regardless of the situation or available budget. Armed with an in-depth understanding of myriad sporting event ‘good practices', there is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach when working with epic.What also sets epic apart is an unparalleled ability to delve into mountains of detail while keeping a keen eye on the big picture and then to synthesize, summarize and ultimately simplify exceedingly complex information & operations.epic's founder, Alan Shaw, is a reliable challenge-solver with superior organizational, analytical and project management skills…and high professional standards. Alan has more than 30 years of event experience, including planning & execution of more than 100 sporting events, concerts and hospitality events in 16 countries across six continents. He has worked with dozens of Organizers, Event Owners, Bid Committees, Corporations and Federations.Since creating the Workforce Planning functional area within the major sporting event environment in 1993, Alan has taken on the tough and often unpopular job of ‘value engineering' to help ensure more than 20 organizers had enough resources to get the job done, while minimizing waste.He also specializes in strategic planning & integration, data capture, resource forecasting, operational command centers (aka C3), risk assessment & mitigation, contingency planning and Games readiness exercises.As a member of the original team of Olympic Games Knowledge Services advisors, Alan has conducted several projects & workshops for the IOC since 2003.
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