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Master Event Planning with a Workback Schedule Template

Attendease

With countless moving parts, deadlines, and stakeholders to manage, where do you even begin? Benefits of Using an Event Workback Schedule Using a workback schedule transforms your event planning in 3 key areas: time management, team coordination, and risk control. Break large projects into smaller, more manageable tasks.

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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. Although the hack was discovered in 2022, researchers hadnt come out with the news until this year. Do you have a plan in place?

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Preparation is the Key to Risk Management

Smart Meetings

Risk management is a dedicated preparedness rather than simply a mental exercise, according to Lisa Sommer Devlin, the most recent Smart Meetings webinar host. In her talk, “Risk Management 101,” she outlined strategies for dealing with the risks of the industry, as well as how to actively avoid them.

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Meetings Industry Association unveils essential Martyn’s Law guidance for business events sector 

Prestige Events Magazine

Working in partnership with leading security and risk management experts GSA Global, the trade association has compiled a step-by-step roadmap to help the sector stay ahead of the potential requirements, so it is ready when the law is enacted.

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Scott Graf on Managing a Changing Geopolitical Events Landscape

Smart Meetings

Read More: Destination Management Companies: Good to Great SM: What do planners get wrong about DMCs? The post Scott Graf on Managing a Changing Geopolitical Events Landscape appeared first on Smart Meetings. I know that I can add value, but I also know that I can learn from each of them, and that is extremely positive for me.

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The Category 5 Pivot: How One Event Company Beat Helene and Milton

Smart Meetings

When you earn CEUs for mastering risk management and mitigation for events, they don’t teach this. His team also procured and managed all AV event technology and created an immersive environment outside the sessions, including dynamic digital signage, plus lighting and atmosphere, themed furniture, registration and an expo.

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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

SmartMeetings

Weighted risk tracking helps manage real contingency requirements We all plan events months in advance, years in advance, or maybe even, days in advance. Because of that not only do our risk management plans need to be well-thought out but so do our finances to cover those risks. Turns out there is.