SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The study, which delved into top safety concerns women business travelers face, found that almost 69 percent of United States travel buyers believe females face greater risk than males and 61 percent feel it’s imperative to consider female safety when implementing risk-management programs. More : The Smart Woman’s Guide.

2008

PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

For our largest event in 2016 we had to turn away more than 150 people. We have implemented a risk-management manual to our events and we have purchased more event insurance for better protection. Increase in what we budget for food and beverage, and managing other costs more closely. . • Cvent implementation.

Food and Beverage

SmartMeetings

APRIL 5, 2017

As security is on many meeting professionals’ minds these days, the conference organized a risk management panel in which industry leaders shared strategies for assessing security risks at meetings and conventions. After holding such a successful event, MIC of Colorado will continue to host two-day annual meetings.

Meetings

Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2018

Have a risk management plan in place for each event. It’s time to refresh your practices with regards to risk assessment plans ! Remember that a risk assessment plan has three main parts and serves the purpose of making your event as safe as possible for everyone involved and nearby. A review of the basics.

Tech

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. Ami Mayfield. Bob Mellinger.

Risk Management

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The original venue for its 2016 World Education Congress (WEC), the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, was now unavailable because the Democratic National Convention would be held there in summer 2016. The 100,000-square-foot venue offers 2,500 hotel rooms just upstairs, a perfect fit for WEC 2016. “It

Education

Plan Your Meetings

MAY 20, 2019

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 60 percent of Americans are neither prepared nor practicing for disasters of any kind, be they natural or manmade. Risk management is defined as the identification, evaluation, analysis, mitigation, communication and monitoring of risks.

Risk Management

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Marriott, which acquired Starwood in 2016, runs more than 6,700 properties around the world. For millions of others, credit card numbers and card expiration dates were potentially compromised. The “unauthorized access” may stretch back to 2014, the hotel group said. Its Starwood brands include W Hotels, St.

2014

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

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.

Speakers

Ins'Tent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Published originally April 25, 2016 and Updated September 20, 2023 As a promotional distributor, your focus is to maximize your company’s growth potential. Risk management : Entering the wrong market or pursuing too many markets simultaneously can expose your business to unnecessary risks and financial strain.

Marketing

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

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.

Education

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

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.

Speakers

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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. Ami Mayfield. Bob Mellinger.

Risk Management

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 22, 2017

In 2016, a poll from American Hotel & Lodging Association showed $3.9 Bad bookings are on the rise. billion in bad bookings in the U.S. Hoteliers call them scammers. Meeting organizers call them poachers, or pirates.

Hotels

Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 18, 2018

But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C., August 2016). flooded with six feet of water in some areas.

Insurance

PCMA Convene

JUNE 27, 2016

Scoring WEC 2016 was a coup of sorts for the city, which is in the midst of reinventing itself, in part as a meetings destination. While the conference itself would take place at Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center (which Caesars recently completed), Saturday night’s opening party was scheduled for Bally’s Beach Bar.

2016

Plan Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But, how many planners have thought to consider a “rain event” that dumps almost two feet of water in 24 hours, such as flooding in Louisiana in August 2016 or Hurricane Matthew, which left most of the community of Lumberton, N.C., August 2016). flooded with six feet of water in some areas.

Insurance

PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

More common at events right now are wearable beacons like the one Ball was given at the Exhibit & Event Marketers Association’s (E2MA) 2016 Red Diamond Congress in Orlando in April, which was used to track crowd movement via heat mapping. “It It’s risk management. Those kinds of tools are not in the distant future.”.

Technology

Plan Your Meetings

MARCH 24, 2017

In the wake of recent, high-profile shootings at meeting and event venues, security was heightened for the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, to include bag searches, explosives-detecting K9s and more personnel. Thinking back, this logic was presented to me earlier in the year, albeit not as bluntly.

Trade Shows

Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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.

2015

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

JM Well, I started doing flash mob dance parties around the world in 2016. I’ll just say that I was really naive, really naïve enough to take really big risks. The safest path, it’s, it’s, you know, risk management is important, and risk management is important for our careers, but also for our guests.

Food and Beverage

Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Organizers will need to develop risk management plans that factor in health risks and look to reduce risk with solutions like contactless check-in, sharing information using QR codes, health passports, and attendee testing. Has our community become so used to virtual events that they see no value in in-person events?

2022

Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 10, 2017

The 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland is a good example. This article was published concurrently in the November 2016 editions of Plan Your Meetings and The Meeting Professional. Some groups may generally permit firearms as a matter of policy. Also, there are often restrictions on transporting weapons across borders.

Insurance

MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2018

percent since 2016, reaching $1.33 While meeting planners are updating contracts to cover emergencies and stepping up other risk management efforts, 70 percent of survey respondents believe that safety and security plans should be a joint effort between the planner and the host destination.

2012

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

In 2016, the Risk Management Society held two community-service days at its Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego. For three straight years, only 33 percent of Americans have expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in major institutions, a 2016 Gallup survey found.

2016

PCMA Convene

JULY 18, 2016

There’s actually an official committee of the Secret Service for this,” said David Gilbert, president of the non-partisan 2016 Cleveland Host Committee, when I spoke to him in his downtown Cleveland office. In the months leading up to the convention, locals were briefed on security measures at several town-hall-style meetings.

2016