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Based upon a review of the literature on conferences, trade fairs, festivals, award ceremonies and similar events and our own research in the German music, fashion, and design industries, this chapter discusses the role of different kinds of organized field-level events in the context of the creative industries. We use the term ‘organized field-level events’ to denote that the phenomena we study are intentionally set-up temporally and spatially bounded social arenas at which diverse individuals from different organizations come together and interact with potential impacts on wider organizational fields. Organized field-level events thus differ from environmental jolts (Meyer, 1982), critical events (eg Hoffman, 1999; Hoffman and Ocasio, 2001; Nigam and Ocasio, 2010), or rare events (Lampel et al., 2009) that impact on organizations and organizational fields as unexpected external shocks in that they are the outcome of reflexive structuration, exhibit formal boundaries, and often take place periodically as a part of regular field cycles (Müller-Seitz and Schüßler, 2013). They also differ from organization-level events such as acquisitions (eg Isabella, 1990), strategy meetings (eg Hoon, 2007), or critical group processes (eg Gersick, 1988) in that they are located at the level of organizational fields, assembling actors from diverse backgrounds in one location (Lampel and Meyer, 2008). 1