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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

Alan Kleinfeld, senior director of meetings and safety at Arrive Management Group, shared a few tips about what meeting profs could do, which can apply to this specific scenario and event safety in general. Caspian Agency CEO Heather Mason suggests weighting risk, a process of understanding the concepts of frequency and impact of incidents.

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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

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Weighted risk tracking helps manage real contingency requirements We all plan events months in advance, years in advance, or maybe even, days in advance. Because of that not only do our risk management plans need to be well-thought out but so do our finances to cover those risks. Turns out there is.

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Scott Graf on Managing a Changing Geopolitical Events Landscape

Smart Meetings

Read More: Destination Management Companies: Good to Great SM: What do planners get wrong about DMCs? Hope Valentine Hope Valentine, president, CSI DMC and 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Industry Leader Award Winner : Planners often underestimate DMCs, viewing them as logistical vendors rather than strategic partners.

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ABPCO announces 2024 Festival of Learning “Fit for the Future” content

Prestige Events Magazine

The Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO) has finalised the programme for the 2024 ABPCO Festival of Learning, taking place at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow on the 29th and 30th of April.

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2024 Contracts Playbook

SmartMeetings

Contracts in 2024 Here are the major features we’re expecting in agreements this year: Higher Costs: Even though the pandemic supply chain issues are mostly a thing of the past, both inflation and natural price increases are playing a role in 2024 contracts. The post 2024 Contracts Playbook appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Moves in Las Vegas, New York and More

Smart Meetings

In this new role, Michaels will expand her scope to oversee all legal, risk management, internal audits, compliance and workers compensation functions within the company. He will oversee all operations and management of the newest AC Hotels by Marriott, continuing his professional journey with Highgate.

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Group Effort Nets RIMS Meetings Team Visionary Award Finalist Nomination

PCMA Convene

Creating the Best Show Ever, Every Time Each year, when Stuart Ruff-Lyon and his core team of nine event professionals look ahead to the organizations annual gathering of approximately 10,000 risk management leaders, they share one three-word philosophy: Best RISKWORLD ever. There is no resting on the laurels.