"We want to be world-class off the ice just as the Lightning are on the ice. This means every single person needs to have a great experience and come back to the arena whether the Lightning win or lose. From the time a guest steps foot on our property, we …

“Whether they want to or not, people have to fly, but they don’t have to go to a sporting or entertainment venue. They can watch on TV or download music onto smart phones. So we need to protect our guests, while also making venues a fun place to be.”

“When we evaluated different options, we kept coming back to the fact that Evolv is used at some of the largest sports stadiums and most prestigious performing arts centers in the country. If it keeps their environments safe and scales to handle the volumes of guests they experience, then it …

“We had lines of people who showed up before we opened our gates. I overheard one person telling her friends, ‘We’re never going to get our seats. Even if they open up right now, we’re still not going to make it.’ The gates opened and the lines started to move. …

“We open our gates 60 minutes before most matches and events. We might open 90 minutes ahead of a few special events. That said, the reality is the majority of fans and guests arrive in the last 15 minutes. We get maybe 15% to 25% of them in the first …

"We want our fans to have a great time when they come here. This is one of the reasons we love Evolv—which makes security screening easy and fast without sacrificing security. It is not intrusive like the metal detectors.”

"Evolv is where safety meets experience. You don’t need to compromise one for the other. Evolv enables us to create a special dynamic that facilitates both.”

“We wanted the ingress experience for fans to be efficient and for them to have a great time. They should come to a game and not worry about the ingress process at all. We want them to enjoy everything; it’s not simply the ballgame but the entire experience.”

"9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing certainly shape how we run quality athletic events. Yet, at the same time, we also are in a constant endeavor to improve our home experience. Our objective is for people to come and watch athletic events in person.”

“Would think that we wouldn’t have detected any weapons due to the demographics of our guests, but we found a handgun in an older lady’s purse that night, which really shined the light on our decision. Since that first event, we’ve found some additional handguns and knives.”

"I had experienced Evolv in other venues and knew what it was capable of doing. After we decided to implement them, I counted down the days until we went live. I knew they would transform our guest experience coming into the building.”

"When you go through the Express systems, you don’t know it. It’s quick, it’s clean, it’s unobtrusive. There’s no emptying of bags and pockets. Guests can enjoy our beautiful campus and experience it without standing in long lines and going through an invasive security check.”

"It is really easy to teach our security officers how to use the Express systems. It is actually easier than teaching them how to use hand wands.”

"The Open AI capability of Evolv helps ensure that the Express system is not deployed in a silo but rather as part of a broader ecosystem.”

“We’ve been working with Purple since 2019. Because of their fast growth, Purple needed an integrator to help implement a security standard."