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Sasha Larkin
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Jul 15, 2026
Episode 196: Securing FIFA World Cup 2026 Collaboratively
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Sean AtkinsonHOST
Have you seen that, and is that something you've, um, a-addressed within your underlying planning, uh, and approach?

Sasha LarkinGUEST
It's an interesting question, Sean, because it brings me back to, to something that I deeply believe, which is the rise and fall of any organization or major event is communication.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
And I don't know that when people are putting together a large-scale event or when they see one pulled off, they go to the World Cup, they don't really think about...

Sasha LarkinGUEST
And, and look, nor should they, right? We want them to go and have an experience.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
But behind the scenes, what's happening as I sit here right now in the tournament operations center in our stadium, um, operations center operates out of the stadiums, and then we have our safety security operations center co-located here with our tournament operations center.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
The amount of information that we move, and let's just take one for example, just between the functional areas up here.
8 MINS LATER

Sean AtkinsonHOST
How did that, um, fit into your overall assessment and operationalization processes?
Episode 196: Securing FIFA World Cup 2026 Collaboratively
12:56
13:03
13:16
13:23
13:27
13:39
13:45
21:30

Sean AtkinsonHOST
Have you seen that, and is that something you've, um, a-addressed w- in your underlying planning a-and approach?

Sasha LarkinGUEST
It's an interesting question, Sean, because it brings me back to, to something that I deeply believe, which is the rise and fall of any organization or major event is communication, and without that, we will fail.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
And I don't know that when people are putting together a large-scale event or when they see one pulled off, they go to the World Cup, they don't really think about...

Sasha LarkinGUEST
And, and look, nor should they, right? We want them to go and have an experience.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
But behind the scenes, what's happening as I sit here right now in the tournament operations center, in our stadium, um, operations center operates out of the stadiums, and then we have our safety security operations center co-located here with our tournament operations center.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
The amount of information that we move, and let's just take one for example, just between the functional areas up here.

Sasha LarkinGUEST
So FIFA has 68 functional areas, and so if I, if I get word that there's a protest, my team gets word that there's a protest, um, on the corner of Walk and Don't Walk Street in New York City.
8 MINS LATER

Sean AtkinsonHOST
How did that, um, fit into your overall assessment and operationalization processes?