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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended.

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You’re Paying Too Much Interest On Your Conference Organizational Debt

Velvet Chainsaw

Think of your conference speaker and content RFP process. Many speaker and topic RFP’s have long lists of unnecessary and obsolete requirements. Consider your organization’s conference site selection process. Frequently, the site selection process resembles a complicated, convoluted Rube Goldberg contraption.

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Why Event Planner Jobs Are Climate Jobs

PCMA Convene

Embrace Risk Assessment This includes: Site Selection We need to understand the vulnerability of locations and their propensities to weather events and factor in these considerations when sourcing locations and planning activities, especially those outdoors.

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4 Top Tips for Picking a Safe, Secure Hotel Site

SmartMeetings

Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer. He’s a seasoned speaker, writer and educator and offers safety tips on topics including site selection, emergency operations and event safety. There is a bright side, however. Include Safety at the Walk-Through.

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Hosting at Hispanic Cultural Centers

Smart Meetings

The center also features AV support including Wi-Fi, 41 ceiling speakers, two projectors and screens and microphones, making hosting at the center a streamlined experience. A Latino History of the United States,” at the National Museum of American History.

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Get Ready for the Future of Events at ELI’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit

Event Leadership Institute

Additionally, the summit will take on the hottest issues of the day such as the changing-by-the-day debate over vaccine passports and the politics of site selection in light of the calls for boycotting Georgia over its new voting restriction laws—and the high-profile departure of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

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2019 ASAE Preview: 8 Ways to Enjoy Columbus, Ohio

Smart Meetings

If you haven’t already, it’s time to get to the drawing board to book off-site activities and venues for next August 10 to 13. Smart Meetings recently went on a FAM trip hosted by Experience Columbus to scope out the area and make your site selection job that much easier. Corporate executives are available as keynote speakers.

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