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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. Every event must have a Pandemic Compliance Advisor.

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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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When Good Meetings Go Bad

SmartMeetings

Chilling tales from the front and how meeting profs saved the day. Do you ever feel like an icy snowball the size of a ballroom has fallen on your perfectly planned event, forcing you to scramble to protect everyone while making everything look perfectly natural? When a Deluge Almost Drowned Out an Operatic Event.

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Tips and Takeaways from the 20th Experiential Marketing Summit

Event Marketer

Despite the progress made in the return to in-person, event marketers are facing a new set of challenges related to meeting the expectations of changed audiences and fighting the urge to return to the status quo of pre-pandemic programming. Plans change and that’s OK—the important part is to have them.”. Hyper-target markets.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said. “You

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down. Creating more sustainable events is a journey, and it comes down to breaking it up into bite-size bits. She is also an FICP board member. And we put that on our website.