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How to Write Force Majeure to Protect Your Meeting from the Next Pandemic

SmartMeetings

Yet, once the dust settles, everyone will be looking for language that will cover extreme black-swan events. He has been drafting ever-more exacting legal language for just such an occasion since 2003, when the SARS epidemic sidetracked numerous events, and says a thorough clause takes at least a page to list all potential occurrences.

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Event Budget Trends 2017: Cloudy with a Chance of Inconsistency?

Social Tables

Corporate leaders everywhere are looking to events as viable marketing channels, or as engaging platforms for internal initiatives. With the goal to educate and inspire customers, the first Dreamforce event brought together just over 1,300 attendees in 2003. The event itself has become a considerable revenue driver.

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It Takes a Conference

PCMA Convene

Harm reduction focuses on minimizing the ill effects of substance abuse among the homeless through negotiation, underpinned by the notion of treating them with dignity and respect. A conference in 2003, where he heard about some of Housing First’s positive outcomes and decided to develop a similar initiative in Utah.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. Compared to most fields, Shure wrote, even in 2003, “the profession is still in its infancy.”. “We

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