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Conference Organizers: What Is Your Duty of Care?

Velvet Chainsaw

As you develop your plan, consider these four difficult questions and how to incorporate your responses in your risk-management planning: Will our preventive measures align with health authority guidelines or will we invest in extra precautions? In risk management, shifting liability to another party is a common practice.

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Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021

Smart Meetings

With the pandemic and public concern fluctuating in the midst of uncertainty, event planners and professionals are left with an enormous responsibility to prepare themselves, their guests and their contracts for whatever comes next. Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era. Meeting professionals today are risk managers.”

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Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era

SmartMeetings

event contract. Foster, CHME, an attorney with Foster, Jensen & Gulley , for an exclusive Q&A on event contract essentials in the Covid era. Listen to “Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era” on demand. Meeting professionals today are risk managers. Reasonable Care. Key Clauses.

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Looking Back On 2021: A Year in Review for ELI

Event Leadership Institute

Virtual events have opened up an entirely new distribution channel for us, and the constant uncertainty of a changing landscape made the need for trusted advisors in our field more important than ever before. We had 4,239 event professionals register for our courses , 3,667 of which passed their exams to earn digital credentials.

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The Event Vax Debate Uncovers Legal, Health and Moral Questions

Smart Meetings

As Anh Nguyen, head of community engagement at the serendipitous networking platform twine pointed out in her guest post, “ Jury, Judge or…Event Planner ?” As event planners, we’ve always taken responsibility for the safety and security of our attendees while they were in our care. — Jennifer Cox (@jicox) June 1, 2021.

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The NFT Phenomenon – Just a Trend or Worth the Spend?

Management Events

Though most people were unfamiliar with NFTs in early 2021, the market for this new asset is now expected to grow from USD $14.02 She noted the sale of an NFT of the first tweet by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey which was initially sold for USD $3 million in 2021. billion to USD $21.33 billion in 2022 and up to USD $82.43

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IRF Survey: Prospects for Resumption of Incentive Travel Optimistic

SmartMeetings

“Sanitation and health security will be permanently more important risk management strategies,” said FICP Executive Director Steve Bova, CAE. In addition to new risk management strategies, future destination selections and program characteristics and activities are also anticipated to shift as a result of the pandemic.

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