MeetingsNet
APRIL 11, 2023
Morals and politics aside, site selection in post-Roe America presents groups with new risk-management challenges, argues one industry lawyer. As states enact new laws affecting those rights, a handful of groups have publicly changed their conference location in protest. Abortion rights is an emotional and polarizing topic.
Event Farm
APRIL 19, 2022
Chief Strategy Officer of Membersuite and Co-Founder of Event Farm, Jennifer Ross, the Founder and CEO of JHR Global Events, and Amanda Gayle, Director of Conferences and Meeting Services for the American Nurses Association. Here are the takeaways from the panel discussion. Fairly, though, in some of these cases, the environment matters.
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Connect Your Meetings
APRIL 29, 2019
Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. International Meeting Managers, Inc. Houston, Texas. Oakland, California. Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM. Woodhaven, New York. President & CEO.
Event Farm
APRIL 19, 2022
One approach is to choose the least stringent areas—for example: Florida, Texas and Arizona, who have looser mandates than other areas of the country—and have an open space in which to set whatever protocol you feel is necessary. “I Here are the takeaways from the panel discussion.
PCMA Convene
MAY 31, 2018
After wrapping up what he felt was another successful Risk Management Society (RIMS) conference in 2017, RIMS vice president of events and education, Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES, got some disturbing feedback: Multiple women said they had felt out of place at the event. Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES. A New View. RIMS18 Session.
SmartMeetings
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Lorena Chappell Benchmark Resorts & Hotels appoints Lorena Chappell director of sales and marketing for Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas. She most recently worked at Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center of Georgetown, Texas.
SmartMeetings
AUGUST 14, 2017
The same is true of vetting so severe that it discourages people from visiting some cities to attend conferences. “It The fear of not being allowed into a country or back out once in has a negative effect on conference attendance and progress, he warned. We do not impose our position on others,” he clarified in a press conference. “We
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