Case Study: Maker Faire achieves a 70% reduction in event management and scheduling admin time with Shiftboard

Using Shiftboard, Maker Faire slashed event management and scheduling admin time by 70%

Maker Faire is a large, family-friendly festival celebrating the maker movement that grew from a single-city event of 22,000 attendees to a bi-coastal festival with 235,000+ visitors—about 560% growth in a decade. That rapid expansion strained staffing, budgeting, compliance, and on-site coordination; email chains, phone calls, spreadsheets and off-the-shelf event software couldn’t provide the visibility or mobile access needed to manage schedules, vendors and logistics efficiently.

Organizers adopted Shiftboard to centralize profiles, scheduling, reporting and mobile coordination, enabling faster shift fills, real-time visibility and streamlined compliance. As a result, Maker Faire cut event management and scheduling time by 70%, reduced legal compliance processing time by 50%, filled 950+ shifts and improved on-site agility and cost control.

Maker Faire

Kerry Moore

Project Manager