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MPI Announces New Courses to Address Security, Risk Management

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Less than 50 percent of meeting planners have risk management plans in place for their events, said Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), in remarks given at WEC 2017 on Tuesday. This course will be offered in January 2018 at the SITE MPI Global Forum in Rome.

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Necessary Conversations

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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. RIMS18 Session. RIMS18 Diversity Meetup.

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ASAE Encourages Open Flow of Ideas, Advocates Against Discrimination

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Graham also said that laws requiring people to use the bathroom of the gender on their birth certificate are discriminatory, and shared ASAE’s lobbying efforts in Austin, Texas, to stop them. “We As the conference was preparing for its last day, Graham was looking forward to 2018 in Chicago, a city known by many as “the Heart of America.”.

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Getting a grip on event firearms policies

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based scholarly societies, released a statement expressing concern about Texas’ new “campus carry” law. 1, 2016—50 years to the day since Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas tower in Austin and shot 49 people, killing 18.) In November 2015, the Atlanta-based organizations, along with more than 25 other U.S.-based

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

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Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Where to find him?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

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Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Where to find him?

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2019 Tech Conferences: The #1 Tech Events Guide

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Or looking to wrap up 2018 with an exceptional conference? 2018 Conferences. AWE USA 2018. Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. Laracon 2018. The most authoritative 2019 tech conferences directory on the web. Searching for top technology events to attend in 2019? April Conferences. May Conferences.

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