WISUSTAINABILITY

Join us on our journey
towards a more sustainable
LIVE EVENT SECTOR

HOW IT ALL STARTED

THE PANDEMIC MINDSET

As a production company for live events, festivals & tours we are operating in a traditionally energy devouring sector. During the pandemic when the lights went out, we decided to turn disaster into productivity. We invested time and energy into reflections on WICREATIONS as a sustainable company in transformational times, our added value for society and our role as innovator to empower worldwide talent in the live event sector.

WI INNOVATED

For nearly 2 years from early 2020 till 2022 WI engineers, creatives and programmers further developed the potential of WIMOTION, our proprietary stage motion software. Result is the WIMOTION ecosystem: 1 software solution 360° for all automated motion elements of a show allowing 3D pre-visualization and cloud control for a variety of expertise profiles who can easily and freely call into the system and collaborate from every location on earth.

AND DECIDED TO GO SUSTAINABLE

Being definitely high flying birds as to tech innovation, we at the same time clearly felt the urge to be a gamechanger in another field too: sustainability. How to shift our focus towards a more sustainable company and circular production? September 2021 we decided to step into the 3-year UN sustainability program for a structural approach supported by VOKA expertise. A huge and difficult enterprise, as in many domains we kind of started up from 0. VOKA Audit 1 took place February 8th 2022.

STUDENT SUPPORT

For the launch of our sustainability program, different WI expertise profiles analyzed and reported state of the art in their particular fields as related to the targets selected. This exercise was done simultaneously with a sustainability project (Sept – March 2022) conducted together with students of HOGENT School of Business management.

The assignment was to map WI state-of-the-art on different sustainability parameters, screen feasible opportunities and present an actionable manual of recommendations. Extra research layer has been an international trend analysis on sustainability in the post pandemic live event sector from the production side as well as from the artist and audience side. Conclusions have been a valuable tool for the next steps in our sustainability journey.

PROJECT CONCLUSIONS

STUDENTS

WI ACTIONS

2022

12 actions realized within 10 SDG goals

ACTIONS

PEOPLE

4 actions
Goals 2-3-4

PLANET

1 action
Goal 12

PARTNERSHIP

1 action
Goal 17

PEACE

1 action
Goal 16

PROSPERITY

5 actions
Goals 7-8-9-11

KEY FOCUS AREAS

THE WORLD IN 2050

Inspiration for our approach

WI are a technical production company operational in the global live entertainment business. Within that scope 9 key focus areas have been selected based on the 6 exemplary transformations of the TWI2050 Report.