Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 20, 2021

Co-Chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition. When I became co-chair of the Meetings Mean Business Coalition (MMBC) in January 2020, I don’t think any of us could have predicted the full extent of the crisis we were about to face as a world and as an industry. Fred Dixon. Name : Fred Dixon. President and CEO, NYC & Company.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2021

Meeting professionals leading the way back to the convention center are increasingly finding themselves between a pandemic and a hard decision. Read about the 25 Hospitality Trends waiting for meeting profs on the other side of the pandemic. . We have created a safety pledge regarding our events and meetings.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With all the Covid-related layoffs and corporate downsizing, it might not look like the best time to get into the meetings and events industry.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 16, 2018

While recent events have most meeting professionals focused on preparing for active shooters and weather catastrophes, it’s infinitely more likely—probable, even—that someone at your event will have a medical issue. Here are the steps he recommends to create a proactive medical risk management plan.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

a Smart Meetings podcast, host JT Long, vice president and content director of Smart Meetings, explores essential strategies for ensuring safety in an increasingly risky world. Kevin Coffey : Kevin Coffey is our travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer. In this episode of What One Thing? ,

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

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. We establish a chain of command as well.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

MeetingsNet, the meeting industry’s premier resource for news, business intelligence, ideas and more, today launched Risk360, a new one-day conference focusing on risk management for meetings and events professionals. The speaker lineup for the inaugural Risk360 conference includes: Tyra Hillard, Esq.,

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Dreamforce, the mega-annual conference of Salesforce.com, raised $3 million for (RED) to help end AIDS forever and another $10 million for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Planning, risk management and security. SalesForce holds an event to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic. What’s Next? . How event tech can help.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Being the person that speaks up at a holiday event planning meeting and addresses tough, valid and scary concerns around the safety and well-being of your guests, could earn you the nickname Ebenezer Scrooge, but rest assured you will soar to the top of the “nice” list when you save Christmas! The answer is two words: risk management.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2020

The hospitality industry is coming to the rescue. 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. Underpinning of all that advocacy effort is data.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The beginning of a new year brings the promise of new events, incentives and meetings. Though lockdowns similar to what we experienced at the beginning of the pandemic aren’t likely, meeting destinations may be impacted by ever-changing local restrictions or ordinances around vaccinations, testing requirements, etc. Build in More Time.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 16, 2024

Even if that more adventurous perspective doesn’t make you any happier about them, they’re a necessary part of the meetings and events industry. Another reflection of the higher costs resorts and meeting facilities are facing is showing in the amount of the deposit. The post 2024 Contracts Playbook appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

More than half—51 percent—had no idea their employers provided any form of travel risk management (TRM) program to assist them during travel; of those who knew of a program’s existence, only one-fifth felt confident enough to use the service.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The meetings industry is not so simple anymore. Smart Meetings talked to industry experts about why certification has become so essential, the commitment required and specific areas where event professionals are focusing to achieve their A-game. Certified Meetings Experts. Pop Quiz for MPI Innovator Jessie States. Jessie States.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

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Airlines Risk Management Travel Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Risk Management Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Airlines 100

Airlines Risk Management Travel Speakers 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Speakers Risk Management 100

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. Of course, in the face of this latest climate calamity, the hospitality industry rallied to aid local communities, as usual. Back-to-back hurricanes? Are you serious?

Travel 100

Travel Airlines Speakers Risk Management 100

SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2017

Finding a host city for a key meeting can be a geographic Rubik’s cube of schedules and locations that can seem impossible to solve. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Meeting space: 4.2 million sq.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 5, 2017

Recently, Smart Meetings had the pleasure of attending the Meetings Industry Council (MIC) of Colorado’s first-ever two day annual conference. MIC of Colorado is a coalition made up of 13 organizations involved in the meetings and events industry.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 20, 2020

That is the challenge meeting planners are facing in a virtual event reality. CSR that engages employees and attendees of your events is a strategic platform for health and safety management in enterprises, as well as an opportunity for psychosocial risk management. As the pandemic rages on, budgets are being slashed.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM, works in Woodhaven, New York, as a s enior business events manager at RIMS, Risk Management Society. I manage our exhibitor housing and hospitality processes (more than 31,000 peak room nights). As a 2019 15 Over 50 honoree, Ferreris discusses her passion for the events industry.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Feeling overwhelmed by technology is a common sentiment expressed by meeting-professional respondents to Convene surveys, who say that they struggle with the fast pace of change, the latest tech tools and up-to-the-minute applications, and the shiniest new things. What about meeting organizers themselves? Artificial Intelligence.

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Technology Meetings 2015 Hotels 75

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Up until 2012 when the media broke the Muffingate story and the scandal of the GSA Western Regional Conference changed everything, government meetings were considered a relatively recession proof base of business. Federal meetings almost singlehandedly bailed out the hospitality industry following the tragedy of 9/11.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The study, which delved into top safety concerns women business travelers face, found that almost 69 percent of United States travel buyers believe females face greater risk than males and 61 percent feel it’s imperative to consider female safety when implementing risk-management programs.

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Course Index

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

All this has led to an uptick in the demand for skilled event management professionals. Good event and hospitality management involves the systematic application of project management techniques to create and develop large events. how to manage budgets, advice on contracts, booking venues and securing sponsors.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 17, 2020

Smart Meetings asked Kate Patay , chair of SEARCH Foundation and chief strategy officer of Patay Consulting, how she kept everyone safe. Ironically, the coronavirus jeopardized an event, which took place March 11, to raise crisis-relief funds for hospitality professionals just as the entire industry was on the verge of crisis.

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