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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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Business Events Industry Week 2025 Focused on Celebrations That Work

Smart Meetings

Read More: Navigating International Attendance Challenges in 2025’s Political Climate Francisco Gomez, CEO of Factum Global , an international growth consultant, went a step farther. “ Business as usual may be the biggest risk right now,” he said. “ Some countries are removing barriers.

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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. Social media consulting company Locowise reports the average engagement rate for video posts on Facebook is at 5.23 percent.

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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. One area in particular where planners might want to perform risk management at a higher level for all their meetings is in vetting hotel staff.

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How Can We Protect Ourselves After the Marriott Data Breach?

Smart Meetings

Greg Sparrow, senior vice president and general manager at CompliancePoint, an Atlanta-area consultant for cybersecurity and risk management, bemoans the fact that repeated occurrences of data theft at major companies in recent years has led to a “desensitization” of public reaction.

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Top tips for planning your event security

Eventinterface

Mark Deane, CEO with ETS Risk Management brings years of experience to this conversation. Mark is a risk management specialist whose experience stems from his career working as an Operational Officer for the British Government. An event security company should be consulted right at the start of the planning process.

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New Report Outlines Key Factors Impacting the Business Events Industry

PCMA Convene

Risk & Security data security, geopolitical-driven risk and risk management, technology evolution, and harm-reduction strategies 12. Business Models Budget and resource challenges, evolving expectations from participants, sponsors and exhibitors, and cost increases 10.

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