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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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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

Smart Meetings

Global DMC Partners (GDP), the network of independently owned destination management companies, launched GDP University. The free program touches on topics, in the form of webinars, from the basics of meeting planning to more complex topics, such as event technology and sustainability.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

Smart Meetings

A security risk evaluation could include unauthorized access, theft, and disruptions from an individual or group. Additional considerations should be given to the number of attendees, crowd management, alcohol-related incidents, traffic management, emergency evacuation, and vendor management.

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Security Flaw at Business Conference Makes Headlines

MeetingsNet

An on-stage incident involving a presenter and attendee raises the question: Can organizers account for every possibility when creating an event’s risk-management plan? After the session ended, the details of that interaction came out: Wilde had been served child-custody documents.

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Best Practices for Safe Meetings from APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Taskforce

SmartMeetings

Drowning in a sea of protocols and guidance documents released daily by government agencies, venues and organizations? The group is addressing health and safety, community, global ecosystems, reskilling the industry , innovation, digital transformation , advocacy and risk mitigation. Preparing for Return to Meeting.

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Events Industry Council releases Accepted Practices Guide for Hotel Health and Safety

Event Industry News

Understanding the essential element of rebuilding and regaining trust, other elements of this guide, available as stand-alone documents, include: Events Industry Council Principles for Recovery , which correspond with U.N. In July, EIC released the Meeting and Event Design Accepted Practices Guide.

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What to Expect from Event Safety in 2021

SmartMeetings

Cartotto is complex director of security and risk management for Caribe Royal Orlando in Florida. Smart Meetings spoke with Cartotto about what new security trends next year may have in store. Managing the Physical Space. What Meeting Planners Should Ask Hotels. And being prepared is right up Mark Cartotto’s alley.

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