Callum Buchanan
Project Manager
Callum Buchanan is a Project Manager at SoldOut with 10 years of experience delivering large-scale festivals, concerts, and public events across Ireland, the UK, and Australia. He built his career working on some of Ireland’s most iconic events — including St Patrick’s Festival, Electric Picnic, Dublin Marathon, World Meeting of Families, and the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon. Holding a BSc in Event Management from Technological University Dublin, Callum holds specialist certifications in crowd safety and emergency management. At SoldOut, he leads key projects including the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade and the NRL Fan Fest, bringing a calm, solutions-focused approach to even the most complex event environments.
Professional Bio (Survey)
I’m a project manager and event production professional with 10 years of experience across Ireland, the UK, and Australia, delivering everything from intimate gatherings to events with 500,000 attendees. I’ve worked on some of Ireland’s most loved events — Electric Picnic, St Patrick’s Festival, the Dublin Marathon — and now lead key projects at SoldOut including the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade and NRL Fan Fest. I hold a BSc in Event Management and specialist certifications in crowd safety and emergency management. My approach is calm, thorough, and solutions-first — no matter what the day throws at you.
Glastonbury. It’s the holy grail for anyone in live events — the scale, the culture, the history, the way it manages to feel both massive and deeply human at the same time. I’d love to be part of the team that makes that happen for the weekend.
‘Fail we may, sail we must’ — a quote attributed to Andrew Weatherall. It’s not a painting or a sculpture, but it’s the piece I come back to. There’s something honest and defiant about it that resonates with how I try to approach the work.
Daft Punk. Consistent, innovative, and they understood that the live experience was everything. There’s a lesson in that for anyone working in events.
Delivering the 2026 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade. Standing on Oxford Street as nearly a quarter of a million people lined the streets — that moment doesn’t leave you. It’s a reminder of why this work matters, and what it can mean to the people who show up for it.
