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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

SmartMeetings

How will meeting professionals address risk post-COVID-19? Why should meeting professionals address risk? If you were a client looking to contract with a meeting planner or a company, which would you want to work with one that did not address risk? Why should you address risk? Meeting Risk Checklist.

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Recent Incidents Highlight Need for Risk Management

MeetingsNet

A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings. In a recent presentation to meeting planners, Coffey ( in photo ) asked this: How many of you check where the emergency exits from your general-session room go to?

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Top tips for planning your event security

Eventinterface

Meeting and event professionals are very much aware of the security challenges generated by bringing people together. In recent days, we have been confronted once again by televised images of terror being inflicted on participants at events, walking a bridge or attending a meeting.

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Event Planners’ Duty of Care During the Pandemic

PCMA Convene

If a person’s actions do not meet this standard of care, then the acts are considered negligent…”. 4 Risk Management Questions for Meeting Hosts. In risk management, shifting liability to another party is a common practice. Dave Lutz, CMP, is managing director of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting.

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How to Use Social Media to Improve Your 2019 Events

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings contacted Sharlet Brennan, a content marketing consultant and president of Brennan Communications, for tips on how to leverage all that traffic for events. Risk Management. More : 7 Tips for a Successful Crisis Management Meeting. What better way to reach them if a crisis arises?

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3 Shifts in Event Sustainability

PCMA Convene

The stress of the pandemic and other global crises like climate change, “does cause organizations to band together,” said Shawna McKinley, principal at Clear Current Consulting, and an instructor in topics including sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and event industry ethics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

At a private event in Las Vegas, a group of researchers found a hacking technique called Unsaflok, allowing hackers to open several models of Saflok RFID-based keycards, putting meeting planners and their attendees potentially at risk. The process of weighting risks can have a positive impact on your planning budget.

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