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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. To download the guidance, visit [link].

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Master Event Planning with a Workback Schedule Template

Attendease

Risk management Spot potential issues weeks or months before they impact your event. Your schedule shows exactly who needs to complete each task and when, making it easy to track progress and identify bottlenecks. Plus, when a team member is out of office, others can quickly see what needs attention.

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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. We created everything for all general sessions and breakout content like opening videos, animated show looks and speaker title card animations, awards presentations, deck templates, plus voiceover and sponsor loops.”

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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.

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Risk Management Gets a Boost: Customizable Event Insurance Debuts

MeetingsNet

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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Listen Up! Smart Meetings’ Top Webinars of 2018

Smart Meetings

Risk Management 101. In Lisa Sommer Devlin’s webinar, “ Risk Management 101 ,” she lists tips and strategies for dealing with risks the industry may present, and how to deal with them, from financial and legal risks to unpredictable accidents and disasters. Here are some of the top picks for 2018.

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Recent Incidents Highlight Need for Risk Management

MeetingsNet

In an ironic twist, the Risk Management Society had the final evening of its 2023 Riskworld convention in Atlanta cut short last week due to an active-shooter situation that, while more than two miles away from the convention center, affected the shuttle-bus routes between the center and several hotels in the room block.