Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When I was teaching a course in risk management and law in an event management diploma program, I was faced with this same challenge. One of the learning outcomes was for students to learn the importance of reading a contract. Cell phone contracts. Cell phone contracts. With cell contracts especially!

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Here are some action items and ideas that you can implement at whatever stage of your meeting you are in, from Choosing a Location or Venue, to negotiating The Contract , or creating a Communications Policy. No, but you can begin to assemble the knowledge and tools to prepare for a safer event. Look for the dates to be announced soon.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM, works in Woodhaven, New York, as a s enior business events manager at RIMS, Risk Management Society. What I do: I am responsible for contracting more than 75 hotel agreements per year. I manage our exhibitor housing and hospitality processes (more than 31,000 peak room nights).

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Up until 2012 when the media broke the Muffingate story and the scandal of the GSA Western Regional Conference changed everything, government meetings were considered a relatively recession proof base of business. A Federal government office must demonstrate to the contracting officer that there is money in the budget to fund an event.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2020

The preview of best practices turned into a vigorous question-and-answer session covering everything from food and beverage to contracts, to roles and responsibilities. We are going to challenge the conference servicing and catering teams a lot, and they’re going to have to be really creative. Here are highlights.

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

Events and gatherings happen in all sizes, at all kinds of social and commercial environments — whether it is a Christmas party, a large scale conference or a business event. Web conferencing software for live streaming the conference. Email marketing and Social media management software for marketing and promotion.

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QC Event School

MARCH 15, 2022

This can include: Conferences. Catering managing. Conference center managing. Conferences. Alternately, would you prefer to be a freelance corporate event planner and contract your services out to multiple different clients? Contract development. Risk management and contingency plans.

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, early on, meetings may focus on clinical trial design, risk management plans, and target patients. Then, as soon as a drug is licensed pharmaceutical advisory boards help to devise post-marketing clinical trials, review medical education programs, and provide expert suggestions for life-cycle management.

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Course Index

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The business events sector is also busier than ever, with regular year-on-year growth in conferences, conventions, expos, product launches and marketing events. All this has led to an uptick in the demand for skilled event management professionals. how to manage budgets, advice on contracts, booking venues and securing sponsors.

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QC Event School

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We have extensive experience in planning and executing a wide range of projects for clients within the tech industry, including product launches, conferences and special events. In our third example, let’s imagine that you’re a wedding planner looking to secure a contract for an upcoming wedding. Risk Management.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

These steps from communication, legal, and risk management professionals will help you lay the groundwork for reaching out to your attendees and preparing information before an event so that you won’t be left scrambling during one. . • For meetings outside the U.S., embassy in that location knows they are in the country.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 26, 2020

The conversation turned into a vigorous question-and-answer session, covering everything from food and beverage to contracts and roles and responsibilities. We are going to challenge the conference servicing and catering teams a lot, and they’re going to have to be creative. For highlights, read on. Advocating for the Future.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

As conference organizers, it can be helpful to consider our responsibilities from the viewpoint of duty of care — the legal definition of which is “a requirement that a person [or organization] act[s] toward others and the public with the watchfulness, attention, caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would use.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Now I first saw him, literally, like when I first started this job, I attended a conference online, and I honestly can’t even tell you which one, because I was a complete baby meetings industry writer. Another time, I met him at a conference, and I think we had a conversation of like, oh my gosh, we’re the youngest people here.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Upset that a Philadelphia property is hosting the far-right Moms for Liberty conference, three Pennsylvania legislators took up their concerns with the hotel’s GM. For meeting professionals, the situation is a good reminder of several site-selection and risk-management best practices. Industry lawyer Joshua L. Grimes, Esq.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

According to the Fall 2019 Pulse Survey, conducted by Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), only one-third (33 percent) of planners planned to grow the size of their meetings in 2020, and just 14 percent planned to expand their incentive programs. We reached out to one of the advisory board members, Kyle F.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

But during MeetingsNet’s Risk360 conference on risk management, it became clear that safety has to remain a priority. Also read: Risk360: Do One Thing Risk360: Choosing a Location or Venue Risk360: The Contract Risk360: Communications Policy Risk360: Developing an Emergency Plan. Have an AED on site.

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QC Event School

APRIL 6, 2023

What Businesses Look for in a Corporate Event Planner Internal Events 101 External Events 101 Overcoming the Seven Deadly Sins of Event Management Event Decorating Resources: Attention, students and grads of QC Event School’s Event Decor Course !

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

But what recourse do conference organizers have when discriminatory legislation is passed in a future host city that is already on the books? APTA kept the conference in Charlotte, and decided to make a statement by incorporating sessions on diversity and inclusion into its program. ” What Can Organizations Do? Hilliard, Ph.D.,

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QC Event School

APRIL 6, 2023

What Businesses Look for in a Corporate Event Planner Internal Events 101 External Events 101 Overcoming the Seven Deadly Sins of Event Management Event Decorating Resources: Attention, students and grads of QC Event School’s Event Decor Course !

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QC Event School

APRIL 6, 2023

What Businesses Look for in a Corporate Event Planner Internal Events 101 External Events 101 Overcoming the Seven Deadly Sins of Event Management Event Decorating Resources: Attention, students and grads of QC Event School’s Event Decor Course !

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 19, 2016

We don’t think that it’s going to be a major amount of business at this time, but the hotels that have meeting space and conference space — the downtown hotels — have been spared. Did you have a sense leading up to the rain that it was going to be this bad? Not really.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 14, 2022

We launched 2 new conferences: the Business, Design & Strategy Summit in June, and the Event Agency Growth Summit in December, featuring over 60 speakers, 34 of which are C-suite leaders of their organizations. We had 4,239 event professionals register for our courses , 3,667 of which passed their exams to earn digital credentials.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In fact, he says, the only widely adopted change he has seen is that meeting planners tend to include a clause in contracts that says they can cancel events because of terrorist acts. Segal advises choosing a venue with conference doors that can lock from the inside in case you need to keep someone out. All they can do is say no.”.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Sanitation and health security will be permanently more important risk management strategies,” said FICP Executive Director Steve Bova, CAE. In addition to new risk management strategies, future destination selections and program characteristics and activities are also anticipated to shift as a result of the pandemic.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 13, 2021

Over the next year or so, conference organizers will need to define their responsibilities for duty of care when it comes to their events. 4 Risk Management Questions for Meeting Hosts. How will they help ensure duty of care throughout the conference? Others were not. Will attendance be required or optional?

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 6, 2019

Chefs at the 2018 PCMA Annual Conference in Bangkok serve pasta and other dishes to attendees. Hotels were a recurring topic, as planners noted a decrease in the ability to negotiate contracts, along with pressures associated with lowered commissions and increased competition for space. Contracts and dealing with our volunteers.

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