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Successful Event Planning Considerations: What Makes or Breaks an Event?

The Castle Group

What makes an event successful? To an attendee, a successful event means a seamless, inspiring, memorable, and/or value-added experience. To a meeting planner, a successful event means achieving these goals and more. At Castle, our role is to make events appear effortless. However, our job is anything but.

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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

These individuals are leaders, mentors and stars who moved the events industry forward for decades. Executive Vice President & COO , International Association of Exhibitions and Events. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. David Bradley.

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Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021

Smart Meetings

With the pandemic and public concern fluctuating in the midst of uncertainty, event planners and professionals are left with an enormous responsibility to prepare themselves, their guests and their contracts for whatever comes next. Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era. Meeting professionals today are risk managers.”

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10 Best U.S. Cities for Business Travel

SmartMeetings

This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. A work hard, play hard motto fits well in Dallas with more than 12,000 dining options, 200 golf courses and 20 entertainment districts. making it ideal for a large event.

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Four Lessons from MPI’s World Education Congress

SmartMeetings

The Rise Awards honored Ginny Fontain from the Carolinas Chapter as Member of the Year; Colleen Rickenbacher from the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter as Meeting Industry Leader; Natalie Beiro from the Potomac Chapter as young professional; and Mike Dominguez, chief sales officer at MGM Resorts International, was given the Chair’s Award.

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Firearms at events…and your liability

Plan Your Meetings

In 2010, there were 405 homicides in the workplace due to shootings, explained Mary Goodrich Nix, partner at the Dallas office of Holland & Knight, during the “ Navigating the New Open Carry Laws in Texas ” webinar, citing the U.S. They have a general duty to take all steps reasonably necessary for the proper conduct of the event.

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Getting a grip on event firearms policies

Plan Your Meetings

That all adds up to attendees potentially showing up armed at your event. Throughout this year, Andy Johnston, president of the Atlanta-based Idea Group, has published an informative series of posts regarding event emergencies. Until recently, he says, the topic of guns at meetings and events simply hasn’t received much attention.

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