Event Production Show 2027

Event Production Show brings the people who build festivals, sporting events and outdoor experiences into the same room as the suppliers who make them work.

Mar 3-4, 2027 · Excel London

Exhibitors expected: 200
Visitors expected: 4,000
Visitors in 2025: 4,770
Exhibitors on the 2026 list: 188

Its center of gravity is the UK live events business: promoters, production managers, site teams, touring crews and agencies, with local authority and cultural events alongside music and stadium shows.

The conversations extend from crowd safety and temporary infrastructure to ticketing, audience experience and the economics of running an event. Mash Media organizes EPS with Access All Areas, giving the conference a close connection to the operators and producers covered by the live events magazine. The supply chain is equally broad, taking in structures, traffic management, accreditation, payments and accessibility. Sharing a hall with International Confex and the PA Show also brings corporate events and business support into reach. EPS is particularly useful when a project needs several operational disciplines to work together across the event site.

How it compares

International ConfexLondon, 6,000
This show: Event Production ShowLondon, 4,000
PLASA ShowLondon, 7,500

The closest comparison depends on what you are buying. PLASA Show at Olympia concentrates on entertainment technology: lighting, audio, AV, staging and rigging, with manufacturer demonstrations and technical training. For a rental house evaluating equipment or a technician developing console skills, that focus makes the September show a different proposition from EPS. EPS brings equipment into the wider job of delivering a festival or outdoor event, alongside site services, security, payments and audience care.

International Confex serves brands, agencies, associations and other organizations producing business events. Venues and event technology are prominent there, making it useful for a conference, exhibition or corporate event brief. It is also an immediate complement to EPS: the shows share a hall and admission, and Agency HQ and the AI & Data Zone connect their programs. A producer working across a festival and a brand activation can cover both markets on the same trip.

EPS earns its place when the procurement question spans the event site and its audience. Its festival and outdoor production emphasis brings the infrastructure conversation together with the promoters and producers responsible for the finished experience. The spring timing and the expanded festival content make it especially relevant to teams preparing a live events season.

EPS is the right trip for producers assembling the suppliers, site services and operational expertise behind a UK festival, sporting event or outdoor experience.

Who exhibits

Recent exhibitors show how much of an event happens beyond the stage. Arena Group and BUKO Traffic & Safety sit alongside accreditation supplier ID&C, payment specialist Global Payments and ticketing company Ticket Tailor. That combination connects site infrastructure and audience movement with entry and spending. Accessibility suppliers such as Nimbus Disability add another operational dimension. The mix suits production and site teams comparing how an entire event will function, while technical equipment buyers can also meet suppliers within a wider delivery network.

Last year's exhibitors

Global Payments
Klipboard
Tails
Community Massage Project
IntelliEvent
Volopa
Fever
Hill & Smith Infrastructure
Flexfurn
Ticket Tailor
Specialist Risk Group
AV Drop
The Stage Bus
NOQ Group
Enterprise Flex-e-Rent
Twilight Trees
Detectnology UK
AV-Matrix
ID&C
500 Logistics
QDOS Event Hire
Special Structures Lab
Alpha Crew
PMY Group

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