Event AV and technical support is the sound, lighting, video and power that makes a room work, plus the crew that installs it, runs it and takes it back out again. WMG Event Support delivers all four disciplines from one technical team, so you brief one lead instead of chasing an audio company, a lighting company and a rigging crew separately. We work in conference centres, exhibition halls, festival sites and corporate venues across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the wider European circuit.
Most technical problems at an event are not equipment problems, they are timing problems. A truss that cannot go up because the floor is still being built. A power order that arrived after the venue closed its deadline. A video feed nobody tested until the room was full. We plan the technical schedule against the build schedule, so the rig, the content and the crew arrive in the right order and the show does not depend on the last hour before doors.
When sound, light, video and rigging come from different companies, the gaps between them become your problem. WMG Event Support puts all of it under one technical lead, with our own crew and transport through the WMG group. One plan, one call sheet and one number to ring when something changes on the day.
The questions that come up most often when an organiser is scoping the technical side of an event.
Sound, lighting, video, rigging and power, plus the crew that installs, operates and removes them. In practice it also covers the planning around it: the site survey, the rig plot, the power order to the venue and the build schedule that keeps all of it in sequence. On exhibitions we usually run it alongside stand building, so the rig and the stand are planned as one job.
For a standard conference or corporate event, six to eight weeks is comfortable. For festivals, large exhibitions and anything that needs rigging sign-off from the venue, three months is more realistic, because hall slots and rigging points are allocated early.
Yes. Some venues require power, rigging or internet to be bought through the house supplier. We plan around that, order in house what has to be ordered in house, and bring the rest of the rig ourselves.
Both. You can hire the full technical package with crew, or book crew only if you already have equipment or the venue has a house system in place. For crew without equipment, see stagehands and event technicians and concert and live event crew.
Our home markets are the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We travel to the wider European fair and event circuit, and transport runs through WMG Technical Logistics inside the same group.
Crew stays on site for the duration of the event, not only for the build. Critical items such as amplifiers, dimmers and playback machines are specified with a spare wherever the schedule and the budget allow.
Send us the venue, the dates and what has to happen in the room. You get a technical plan and a price, not a brochure.
