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What Did You Do Differently Last Year?

PCMA Convene

For our largest event in 2016 we had to turn away more than 150 people. This event originally was just for our state but now is becoming a regional event. •We We have implemented a risk-management manual to our events and we have purchased more event insurance for better protection.

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5 Travel Trends for 2017 — and Beyond

PCMA Convene

More tools to manage travel risk will be available. Due to security issues and instability around the globe, travel planners are seeking ever more solid risk-management plans for both people and the equipment and data they carry, such as comprehensive insurance and the ability to track and communicate with employees in real time.

2017 40
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A Higher Meetings Education: Future-Proof Your Career

SmartMeetings

Occupational data from the 2016 U.S. CMP International Standards, for example, are updated every five years to cover the latest in strategic planning, project management, risk management, financial management, human resources, stakeholder management, meeting/event design, site management and marketing.

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When to Disregard Data and Go With Your Gut

PCMA Convene

For Michael Massari, senior vice president of meetings and events at Caesars Entertainment, creating a backup plan became increasingly tricky in the days leading up to MPI’s World Education Congress in Atlantic City on June 11–14.

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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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Smart Start: Elevating Events with Joy

SmartMeetings

And so I think that the takeaway here is that we can actually take more risks than we think, and people are more open minded and willing to experiment than we think, right? Because we have this, this like mental dialog that prevents us from taking risks, right? JM Well, I started doing flash mob dance parties around the world in 2016.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Mari Smith Who is she? for two years.

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