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With the right strategy, every event council supports can leave a wider effect. Organisers who run well, grow and prove their value. Local suppliers winning event work, and Games work, through 2032 and beyond. Higher standards, and new ideas tested at events then scaled across the region. And proof of the full return: economic, social, environmental and cultural. Events are regional prosperity infrastructure. We help you manage them that way: set the strategy, streamline the support, strengthen your organisers and measure the results. Start with a Confidential Strategy Session.
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The Wider Effect in 30 sec
- Direction: events that deliver what your region needs.
- Capability: organisers who run well, grow and prove their value.
- Local economy: local suppliers winning event and Games work.
- Innovation and standards: ideas tested at events and scaled across the region.
- Evidence: proof of the full return, across all four pillars.
WHY THE WIDER EFFECT
Events are regional prosperity infrastructure. We help you manage them that way.
Growing the benefits for your region, and managing the impacts, with the evidence to show both. It’s work we’ve done at every level.
Most event consultancies work for an event. We work for council: its whole events portfolio, and the organisers it supports.
State-leading pilot
Designed and led the Queensland Event Waste Pilot, across events with more than 200,000 attendees.
International best practice
Presented on the impact of events at The Pavilion for People during COP29, and an invited observer at ISO/TC 354/SC 1, the international committee for sustainable event management, in 2026.
Inside council
Restructured a major regional council’s events function, and set up a regional event infrastructure pool.
Results for regions
Measures and strategies behind almost $1 billion in economic impact for Luminair Systems’ client regions.
Led by Stefanie Wilson, with nearly 25 years in and around councils.
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