I will discuss recent developments in event generator modelling and 
techniques. Perhaps the most striking progress has been the increase in 
formal precision of perturbative calculations by combining fixed-order 
calculations with parton-shower resummation. I will describe the status 
of such techniques and the ongoing efforts to further improve the 
precision. I will also describe recent work to improve the understanding 
and modelling of soft processes such as hadronization and multi-parton 
interactions, in particular in dense high-multiplicity events.