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Lack of planning won’t avert an emergency

Plan Your Meetings

Flashback to Fall 2001, post-9/11, event organizers everywhere were clamoring for information on how to create an emergency preparedness/crisis communication plan. Certainly, event facilities and other public places, including hotels, have developed emergency plans. RELATED STORY: Event safety tips from a meteorologist.

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Guest Blog: Major Event Growth – A risky business to be in?

Event Industry News

It is no stretch to state that the mega-event industry is enormous. This article will focus on major sporting events, an industry which exploded in the 1970s with the commercialisation of sport. Attendance at professional sports events in the United Kingdom exceeded seventy-four million in 2017 – the highest outside of 2012.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Marine Corps officer who has nearly 20 years of experience planning business events. “I You don’t make a good target for terrorists.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Marine Corps officer who has nearly 20 years of experience planning business events. “I You don’t make a good target for terrorists.

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Planning for disaster: Best practices and essential terminology

Plan Your Meetings

In September 2001, Alan Kleinfeld was living in Washington, D.C. The meeting professional was about to launch his own meeting management company, Arrive, but as the events of Sept. He began counseling his clients to take security more seriously when planning events. Am I having an event in Nairobi? By Tara Swords.

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