Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

How meeting profs can keep event data safe with the latest cybersecurity tools You don’t want to be the next data leak to hit the headlines. It runs the risk of your computer or tablet getting malware and giving hackers the keys to your data. It limits your liability in the space and limits your risk.” But what to do?

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Insurance Risk Management Healthcare Technology 98

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The beginning of a new year brings the promise of new events, incentives and meetings. Contracting in the current Covid climate, however, is complex—everything feels unsettled, so it’s hard to know how to plan. 2022 contracting will require going back to basics. How do we navigate this ever-changing environment?

Contracts 116

Contracts Site Selections 2022 Risk Management 116

MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today’s planners need to know how to effectively anticipate, assess, and address potential security concerns from hostage situations to natural disasters. read more.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management Management Meeting Planning Meetings 40

SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

From Smart U Masterclasses to virtual book club, home exercises and the best tools for online meetings, we’ve got you covered. How to Binge Your Way to an Advanced Meetings Career. Planners who sharpen their skills to meet those new expectations will be the ones to excel. 5 Mistakes to Avert in Virtual Meetings.

Risk Management 80

Risk Management Consulting Meetings Education 80

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.

Meetings 62

Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In Chicago, at McCormick Place, convention center operations and sales staff created new tools to better communicate their sustainability capacities to clients early in the meeting process, said Doug Bradley, vice president at SAVOR, the center’s F&B provider. Paying attention to sustainability is a risk-management issue.

Sustainability 98

Sustainability Food and Beverage Risk Management Consulting 98

MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019. It is no secret that meeting planning is a stressful job and that no matter how much preparation happens before an event, once on site planners are still deluged with questions and last-minute issues. Have an AED on site. He was shot in the arm.

Risk Management 69

Risk Management 2013 Contracts 2019 69

SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Meeting and event planning is a highly stressful, fast-paced occupation. Incoming—you’ve got a meeting or an event to plan! Timeline, budget, specific venue, caterer, schedule, speakers, entertainment, risk management, marketing and promotion should be moving along. No part of the process is easy.

Event Planning 87

Event Planning Risk Management Contracts Entertainment 87

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.

Travel 81

Travel Hospitality Hotels Risk Management 81

SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Conduct regular risk management evaluations. Do things right, and you might wind up with great testimonials, just like Frances Faulkenberg had for Silverado: “I am the Event Chair for an industry group and we had our annual meeting planned for the Silverado Resort on November 8-10, 2017.

Risk Management 61

Risk Management Insurance Hotels 2017 61

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 14, 2017

The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE) Annual Meeting in Toronto opened bright and early Aug. As an organization, ASAE has a policy to not hold a meeting in a city where discriminatory laws are in effect , but he said he understood that some organizations don’t have a choice if that is where their membership lives. “We

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2010 Social Media Risk Management Travel 58

Plan Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2020

Meeting Executive Re-Think Tank on Lessons Learned & Continued Impact ”. Avoiding Burnout and Managing Stress ”. Reduce Stress from Meeting Planning by Knowing Who to Trust ”. Risk Management Planning. No Time Like the Present …Taking Your Meetings Virtual. EST on the dates listed.

2020 36

2020 Risk Management Contracts Tourism 36

PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted a 10-percent increase in the number of meeting-and-event-planning jobs by 2024. CHME, CHSP, CMP, CHE, who in addition to teaching classes at Metropolitan State University of Denver, serves as a faculty adviser for the school’s hospitality, tourism, and events management department. “In

Negotiating 68

Negotiating Hospitality Contracts Risk Management 68

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 29, 2020

World-renown conference speakers, Heather Mason and Ed Salvato have had active roles in the events industry for years, participating and speaking at face-to-face meetings in the past as well as attending and presenting in the current online modality. Examine crowd-source best practices for approaching COVID-era meeting planning.

2021 52

2021 2020 Speakers Meeting Planning 52

Plan Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The last 2016 issue of Plan Your Meetings is now online and, for the first time ever, includes the complete Meetings Outlook report of MPI’s quarterly survey. Plan for it, but let’s avoid it, OK? In those pages, you’ll uncover valuable findings for your work-life and career. can be impacted by local gun laws.

2016 28

2016 Meetings Site Selections Insurance 28

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

He also serves on the Board of Directors for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Douglas Hustad Omni Charlotte Hotel taps Douglas Hustad as general manager, where he’ll oversee the property’s $26-million renovation along with operations, sales and marketing, rooms, risk management, human resources and food and beverage.

Hotels 40

Hotels Food and Beverage 2013 Sports 40

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

Speakers 101

Speakers Consulting Healthcare Financial 101

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

Speakers 98

Speakers Healthcare Consulting Financial 98

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

So, just how can meeting professionals draw from this awe-inspiring performance ? Meeting professionals can hire them to wow the crowd for a fully customizable show. They assess safety measures and risk management. Las Vegas plays host to countless meetings and is home to numerous Cirque du Soleil residencies.

Risk Management 65

Risk Management Hotels Meetings Entertainment 65

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

So, just how can meeting professionals draw from this awe-inspiring performance ? Meeting professionals can hire them to wow the crowd for a fully customizable show. They assess safety measures and risk management. Las Vegas plays host to countless meetings and is home to numerous Cirque du Soleil residencies.

Risk Management 45

Risk Management Hotels Meetings Entertainment 45

SmartMeetings

MAY 2, 2017

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) has released its quarterly Meetings Outlook report. The report presents trends and predictions that MPI members believe will have a major impact on the meetings industry. Meeting budgets are rising. Meeting space availability is up. Contingency planning is top-of-mind.

2017 81

2017 Meetings Risk Management Travel 81