 The focus here presently is on sporting events, but as major events planner, the content of the major events itself is very important from the analysis perspective, but it could be as well a political event, it could be a musical event. The course here focuses on sports, but it also applies to all the different sectors of major events. From a risk perspective, the discussions that are being held here during the course and the ability to share experiences with the different partners is very important as the different environments are specific to some countries. On the other hand, there are a lot of commonalities that also are exposed during the course when it comes to terrorism, to crowd management, to stadium management and partnerships that need to be in place in order to support these types of events. The course offers a platform for officers like me to be immersed in an environment where we can, with our colleagues, exchange and discuss on what in some cases has gone very well and on other cases not so well, so we can share our best practices and also in some cases some of our more challenging situations that we faced and how we have grown and learned from these experiences throughout the years.