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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

Keller Williams, the Austin, Texas–based global real-estate franchise, recently overhauled its event-security protocols to focus on creating a custom risk-management plan for each event, including its 17,000-attendee Family Reunion annual convention and its 8,500-attendee midyear convention. Andre Lico. Bob Mellinger.

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5 Next-Gen Technologies That Already Are Changing Meetings

PCMA Convene

DMOs including the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau also have begun using Watson-enabled technology to help leisure and business travelers cut through the online clutter. It’s risk management. The mobile device gets smarter and smarter,” Jones said. Those kinds of tools are not in the distant future.”.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

Keller Williams, the Austin, Texas–based global real-estate franchise, recently overhauled its event-security protocols to focus on creating a custom risk-management plan for each event, including its 17,000-attendee Family Reunion annual convention and its 8,500-attendee midyear convention. Andre Lico. Bob Mellinger.

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Getting a grip on event firearms policies

Plan Your Meetings

Such research and commensurate communications to inform attendees was the tact taken by the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) leading up to their 2016 annual meetings. Our staffs met with the management of the Henry B. Collectively, the AAR and SBL expressed concern about U.S.

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