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Top 9 Legal Questions About Event Safety and Liability

Event Farm

Stephanie Krzywanski, CMM, CED, partner and Chief Operating Officer at JR Global Events, said people might feel left out and alienated by a vaccination requirement or by the segregation at your event of attendees by vaccination or testing status. A vaccine requirement raises practical issues too, said Mac McCullough, Ph.D.,

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Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook

Event Farm

Event risk assessment planning tool. 90-day global event tracker. These tools, updated in real-time, provide the information you need as you evaluate potential locations for your event. Selecting an event venue. Pay extra attention to indemnification and insurance policies.

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CrowdStrike outage: How to bounce back (event planning edition).

Expo Pass

It was the sort of global event that most people wouldn’t have assumed possible—until it happened. Many event planners may wonder, “Is there anything we can do if it happens again?” If you don’t have it yet, get cyber insurance. It was like something out of Black Mirror.

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Best of 2024: Sustainability

Smart Meetings

They discussed how they each have created actionable sustainability strategies and seen successful outcomes at their companies.

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Tips and Takeaways from the 20th Experiential Marketing Summit

Event Marketer

The key, says Desiree Hamilton, leader-global events, sales and event operations at Cisco, is to clarify those goals early; incorporate them into the creative brief; relay expectations to the venue; and collaborate with partners who can help lead new initiatives that can, ultimately, inspire change across the industry. .

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QEII welcomes new non-executive directors Mark Riches and Lindsey Hoy

Event Industry News

Mark is an experienced business leader, strategic thinker, developer of talent, and specialist in event marketing. Having co-founded global events agency FIRST, he has extensive creative, commercial and international experience, working for some of the world’s top brands.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said. Defining Risk. Things happen!”