SmartMeetings

APRIL 5, 2017

The Annual MIC Conference and Trade Show, traditionally a one-day event, was extended to become a two-day conference this year. MIC also took the opportunity to recognize industry trailblazers with its 2016 MIC Leadership Award, which was given to Steve Kinsley, president of Kinsley Meetings.

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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.

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Marketing Trade Shows Sustainability Risk Management 52

PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

P icture this: As an attendee wanders through your trade show, a notification appears on her Apple Watch that walking toward her is someone who shares her interest in, say, clinical nuclear cardiology. It’s risk management. You’ve probably seen 3D projection mapping in action at a conference or trade show before.

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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.

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Trade Shows 2016 Education Events 43

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The first was a 7,500-attendee trade show that the client — a large tractor manufacturer — was scheduled to hold for its dealers in a centrally located city in the United States in November 2001. How negative would that be to the convention and trade-show business?”. Ami Mayfield.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management Trade Shows Site Selections 2001 40

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The first was a 7,500-attendee trade show that the client — a large tractor manufacturer — was scheduled to hold for its dealers in a centrally located city in the United States in November 2001. How negative would that be to the convention and trade-show business?”. Ami Mayfield.

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Risk Management Trade Shows Site Selections 2001 40

Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 10, 2017

The image of meeting attendees crossing a trade show floor with rifles strapped to their backs is a scene reminiscent of the Gunfight at the O.K. The 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland is a good example. The increasing presence of firearms is also an area of concern for many meeting planners.

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