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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

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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.

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Are You Prepared for a Mental Health Crisis at Your Meeting?

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Skift Take: Organizations rarely include potential mental health crises in their risk management planning. Barbara Scofidio Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings The time to start is now.

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Meeting Planners Navigate Rising Costs and Shifting Work Models

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Skift Take: Organizations rarely include potential mental health crises in their risk management planning. Barbara Scofidio Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings The time to start is now.

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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

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How will meeting professionals address risk post-COVID-19? Why should meeting professionals address risk? If you were a client looking to contract with a meeting planner or a company, which would you want to work with one that did not address risk? Why should you address risk? Meeting Risk Checklist.

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Recent Incidents Highlight Need for Risk Management

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A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings. In a recent presentation to meeting planners, Coffey ( in photo ) asked this: How many of you check where the emergency exits from your general-session room go to? Where do we go?’”

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Risk Management Gets a Boost: Customizable Event Insurance Debuts

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With significant guidance from industry association Destinations International, the insurance and risk-management firm Anderson Benson has rolled out coverage for event disruption and cancellation that allows host organizations to put together a policy specific to their needs.

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New Cybersecurity Reporting Requirement to Impact Meetings

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This adds a new level of complexity to risk management for any planners working with or for these companies. Alan Kleinfeld Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: A new SEC disclosure ruling requires all U.S. public companies to disclose cyberattacks.