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Health-Care Event Planners Adapt to a Shifting Landscape

SmartMeetings

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.

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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

As a planner, who is my main point of contact on-site during an emergency? Where are your evacuation meeting locations? Where are fire extinguishers, first aid kits and automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs) located on-site? A few important questions to consider: Do they have a crisis/emergency plan in place?

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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. Think about convention centers like McCormick Place, Orlando, the D.C. convention center — 1,326 doors. Hynes Veterans Memo-rial Convention Center.

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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. Think about convention centers like McCormick Place, Orlando, the D.C. convention center — 1,326 doors. Hynes Veterans Memo-rial Convention Center.