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THE MARKET-LEADING SHOW FOR LIVE ENTERTAINMENT TECH

CELEBRATING ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY + THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT!

7-9 September 2025 | Olympia London

The UK's market-leading trade event for live entertainment technology returns to London in September 2025.

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VISIT THE UK'S MARKET-LEADING TRADE EVENT FOR LIVE ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY

Entertainment technology around the world is evolving more than ever - don't get left behind!

Join your industry colleagues at PLASA Show from 7-9 September 2025 at Olympia, London to explore what's new across lighting, audio, AV, staging and rigging.

2025 will be special as we celebrate 40 years of LSi magazine, the industry’s leading media resource for live entertainment technology. 

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From 270+ industry brands, to dedicated networking zones, the show is the ultimate magnet for global live entertainment tech professionals.

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PUT NEXT GENERATION TECH TO THE TEST

From global product launches to UK debuts, get hands-on with future-focused tech before anyone else at PLASA Show.

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LEARN FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS

The show programme features inspiring talks, technical deep-dives and collaborative panels from top-tier industry luminaries.

Plus, the show delivers hands-on practical training and live audio demonstrations from leading manufacturers.

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FIND NEW TALENT + SUPPLIERS

Find inspiration and expand your business network with brands you may have not considered before.

And scope hundreds of fresh talent ready to be your new team members!

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STAY ONE STEP AHEAD WITH EXPERT-LED SEMINARS

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The PLASA Show 2025 seminar programme is proudly sponsored by:

Vectorworks

The LSi Theatre
    • Industry Issues
    • Lighting
    • Production
    The LSi Theatre
    Ukrainian Strength, Creativity, & Resilience - An Industry On A Mission
    A snapshot into how the Ukrainian production industry is surviving the impact of three and a half years of war, through creativity, imagination, technology crossovers, adaptability and thinking out-of ...
    • Production
    The LSi Theatre
    Earlier this summer, the 960-seat Soho Theatre Walthamstow opened to critical acclaim as a live performance venue with a focus on comedy. The opening marked the successful conclusion of a 10-year camp ...
    • Lighting
    The LSi Theatre
    Made In Switzerland: Lighting The Eurovision Song Contest 2025
    How do you top designing the Eurovision Song Contest once? … You do it twice and double the lighting rig! During this session, Tim will take you through the complexities, challenges and immense fun of ...
Lighting & Staging Theatre
    • Careers
    • Lighting
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    From Student to Spotlight
    While most people at the PLASA Show would probably agree that doing a degree in Lighting Design does not make you a lighting designer, many of the current high-profile theatre LDs did just that.  Give ...
    • Lighting
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    The DNA Of Lighting Control
    To paraphrase Carl Sagan, if you want to develop a lighting console from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Even simple lighting control features have a deep history behind them, and decisio ...
    • Health & Safety
    • Rigging
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Owners, Renters, And Users: A Beginner's Guide To Electrical Chain Hoist Systems
    Whether you're a novice or a seasoned professional, understanding electrical chain hoist systems is essential for health and safety when working on productions involving lifting operations. This semin ...
    • Lighting
    • Production
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Visualisation: The Future Of Theatre Pre-Production
    This session will offer a comprehensive look at the work done by the senior visualiser at the Royal Ballet and Opera within the Lighting Control and Visualisation department. This department is where ...
    • Wellbeing
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Discover how medicinal mushrooms can revolutionise your life on tour. Darryn, founder of Soulsound, has a side-hustle in fungi farming, specialising in Shiitake and Lion's Mane Mushrooms. She'll share ...
    • Industry Issues
    • Wellbeing
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Periods, Pain & Production: We are going to talk Women’s Health in live events and touring with professionals from both the live event industry and the health care system.  We will address issues like ...
Audio & AV Theatre
    • Audio
    Audio & AV Theatre
    System Design and Content Design for Sound are increasingly split up roles, with different practitioners working in teams. Chris Drohan talks with West End Sound Designers to understand how the roles ...
    • Business
    • Industry Issues
    • Sustainability
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Digital Product Passports, Are You Ready?
    The average cost of not being prepared for Digital Product Passport regulations could cost the average UK business £1.5m a year. Set to be first introduced in 2027, the new regulation from the EU will ...
    • Careers
    • Lighting
    Audio & AV Theatre
     Dreaming Of Growing Your Own Business? How To Get Started And Access Support And Funding For Your Big Idea
    James started Copper Candle in 2004 to build the future of LED theatre lighting. 20 years later, Copper Candle is still attempting to disrupt the entertainment technology sector, and he has learned so ...
    • Audio
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Drawing A Sound Plan With Vectorworks
    Unlock the creative power of Vectorworks with this introduction to crafting efficient, audio-centric plans that make your projects stand out. Who is this session for? Target audience members are sound ...
    • Production
    • Technology
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Futures Under Construction: Managing The Next Big Thing
    As live performance continues to evolve in the 21st century, the boundaries between design, technology, and storytelling are dissolving, ushering in a new era of integrated collaboration and creation. ...
    • Audio
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Jerry Harvey and the History of In-Ear Monitoring
    Renowned live sound engineer and technologist Jerry Harvey has been at the forefront of IEMs (In-Ear Monitors) development for over 30 years. His work has revolutionised stage monitoring by providing ...
The LSi Theatre
    • Audio
    • Lighting
    • Production
    The LSi Theatre
    Roland has written Second Fix for the past 16 years, the only part of LSi Magazine dedicated to installations. In those nearly 100 articles, he has often been vocal on a variety of topics and made num ...
    • Production
    • Staging
    The LSi Theatre
    Sadler's Wells East: Yes, London Needed Another Theatre!
    Come and hear a project overview of the first purpose-built theatre for dance in the UK. Presented by Sadler's Wells technical director Oli Clark and theatre consultants from Charcoalblue, Paul Halter ...
    • Audio
    • Production
    The LSi Theatre
    Out In Front
    Our panel of leading FOH engineers discuss how ever-closer collaboration with the artists they are mixing is raising the creativity of live sound production, making their work more like record product ...
    • Lighting
    The LSi Theatre
    Made In Switzerland: Lighting The Eurovision Song Contest 2025
    How do you top designing the Eurovision Song Contest once? … You do it twice and double the lighting rig! During this session, Tim will take you through the complexities, challenges and immense fun of ...
    • Audio
    • AV
    • Production
    • Rigging
    • Staging
    • Technology
    The LSi Theatre
    We rewind to the year of LSi’s birth: 1985 was quite a year in all aspects of tech. Big screen made its mark with Jumbotron; Lighting welcomed memory desks the arrival of dichroic filters and adoption ...
    • AV
    • Lighting
    • Staging
    The LSi Theatre
    Explore how next-generation events are evolving through the intersection of creative storytelling and production technology. In this session, Olya Nikolaeva, General Producer at Sila Sveta, shares how ...
Lighting & Staging Theatre
    • Lighting
    • Production
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    It Takes A Village: Crafting Extraordinary Shows Through The Power Of Partnership
    Step into the creative and technical journey behind some of the UK's top shows. In this exclusive seminar, White Light is in conversation with lighting designer Peter Small, along with production elec ...
    • Lighting
    • Production
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    As productions continue to grow in size and complexity, more devices are hopping on the network to communicate with one another. As such, an understanding of the fundamentals of networking is essentia ...
    • Industry Issues
    • Sustainability
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    The panel, drawn from across the industry includes viewpoints from show delivery, project management, manufacturing, and consultative services to give you a wide range of experience to draw upon. The ...
    • Lighting
    • Production
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Designing Pulp's 'You Deserve More' Tour: A Vectorworks Workflow For Live Production
    Join Michael Harpur for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the 2025 'You Deserve More' tour by Pulp, showcasing the full production and lighting design process. In this session, Michael will demon ...
    • Lighting
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Lighting Designers Have Always Worked Neuroaesthetically
    What makes some lighting truly resonate, while others just 'look nice'? In this session, Jason explores how light can shape not just the stage but the audience's emotional and perceptual experience. D ...
    • Business
    • Industry Issues
    • Sustainability
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    A positive approach to the challenges we are facing with the Climate Crisis inspired by the book of the same name by Hannah Ritchie. This is an update of where we are as an industry and a society with ...
    • Business
    • Careers
    • Industry Issues
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Let's talk about the skills gap nobody's sugarcoating. This panel brings employers and apprentices together to break down how apprenticeships are shaping the future of the entertainment production ind ...
Audio & AV Theatre
    • AV
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Phil Ward talks to Benji Fox, Head of Audio Visual at the Royal Academy of Arts, about art, sound, and where creativity and technology collide. As well as delivering expert AV in the gallery, Benji is ...
    • Production
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Transforming Spaces With Virtual Production Techniques
    Discover how virtual production is transforming spaces and driving enhanced engagement and operational efficiency. This panel discussion is tailored for digital media professionals seeking to leverage ...
    • Business
    • Health & Safety
    • Industry Issues
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Martyn's Law - officially the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, is a UK law designed to improve security and preparedness in publicly accessible locations against potential terrorist attack ...
    • Audio
    Audio & AV Theatre
    How To Achieve Perfect Immersive Audio Simultaneously For The Live Audience AND The Broadcast Mix
    Martin Audio’s Simon Honywill and Dave Haydon from TiMax identify the factors that allowed the two companies to supersede the expectations of TED’s singular audio brief. TED’s requirement called for a ...
    • Business
    • Health & Safety
    • Industry Issues
    • Production
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Improving Working Conditions At Festivals: A Roundtable Discussion Hosted by Bectu
    As part of the Better Festivals campaign launched in Summer 2025, Bectu’s Live Events Network collected accounts of lived experiences of working behind the scenes at UK festivals. Join the Network as ...
    • Audio
    • Technology
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Sounds Great! - System Design For Venues
    d&b audiotechnik have brought together a team for this session, to share their experiences and advice for designing a sound system through case studies and an exploration of the latest technologies. W ...
The LSi Theatre
  1. The LSi Theatre
    Classic Gear Live: Preserving Entertainment Technology
    There are many collections of performance equipment in private and public hands. However, saving and showing the gear to interested people can be challenging, especially as records are not always comp ...
    • Audio
    • AV
    • Lighting
    • Production
    • Rigging
    • Staging
    The LSi Theatre
    As LSi Magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary, we’ve gathered a special panel of people who’ve been making shows together or separately for longer than the magazine has been around to report on them ...
    • Careers
    • Production
    The LSi Theatre
    Set In Motion Live ' In Conversation With Automation Legend Paul Sadler
    The 1980s/1990s heralded the rise of the 'mega musical' with audacious engineering enabling the spectacular shows which defined the genre, making the West End the epicentre of a revolution in live ent ...
    • Technology
    The LSi Theatre
    In this seminar, James will take us on a light-hearted tour of event technology over the last quarter of a century from the time he started the Technical Focus column in LSi through to the current day ...
Lighting & Staging Theatre
    • Lighting
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Under The Skin Of Art-Net And sACN
    This session aims to provide a practical overview of what these two control protocols are, how they are used, and importantly, a little of the theory necessary to ensure trouble free operation of netw ...
    • Careers
    • Staging
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Careers In Technical Theatre And Routes Into The Industry
    This session will look at different careers and roles within the backstage theatre world, and the different routes that can lead to a successful and lasting career in the technical theatre industry. W ...
    • Careers
    • Lighting
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    Join us for an inspiring session that follows the career of Tamykha Patterson — a freelance lighting programmer and associate lighting designer who has worked on some of the biggest stage productions ...
    • Production
    • Staging
    Lighting & Staging Theatre
    From Concept To Concert: Behind The Scenes Of Central Cee’s Tour And More
    What goes into the planning for an artist’s tour? What procedures can smooth this process? What paves the way to success on opening night? Using rapper Central Cee’s current tour as an example, we exp ...
Audio & AV Theatre
    • Audio
    • AV
    • Business
    • Careers
    • Lighting
    • Production
    • Rigging
    Audio & AV Theatre
    How To Become A Financially Savvy Freelancer
    There's no denying that many freelancers have faced a sluggish start to the year, with finances stretched thin. This situation highlights our need for better financial planning and a potential cultura ...
    • Production
    Audio & AV Theatre
    Created by former production and stage managers, Propared is a purpose-built platform designed to simplify the complex world of production logistics. Whether you’re managing venues, booking crew, trac ...

 

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