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Yet Another Job for Planners: Clearing the Air

MeetingsNet

A meeting professional’s expertise can go in any number of directions: marketing, adult education, event design, site selection, contracting, event technology … It’s a dynamic role. And as varied as the job description can be, how many planners in early 2020 would have included an understanding of indoor air quality?

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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. His safety topics have included site selection, event safety, emergency operations and crisis communications. Active Threats : These days the bad guys use more than guns.

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2019 40 Under 40: Melissa N. Grigsby, Independent Electrical Contractors

Connect Your Meetings

I manage everything from budgets to site selections to online registration to attendee communications. In that role, I assisted in the planning of our awards ceremony including site selection, logistics and working with the winners. What I do outside of work: I am heavily involved in sports both playing and coaching.

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What’s the Difference Between the Accrual & Cash Accounting Methods?

Event Leadership Institute

You provide site selection services to a client, for which the venue pays you a commission. Start Date: January 14, 2020. Accrual accounting does track deposits paid or received. Accrual accounting does track money you owe vendors (accounts payable) or money customers owe you (accounts receivable). Scenarios. LEARN MORE.

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The Road Ahead: What’s In Store for the Event Industry In 2021 & Beyond – Part Two In-Person Events

Event Leadership Institute

You have no idea what really would have happened in 2020 if there hadn’t been a pandemic.”. Venue sourcers refer to the organization hosting the event as their “client” because that’s ostensibly who they’re providing site selection services for. They were just dreams, you know.

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More Associations Are Sounding the Climate Alarm

PCMA Convene

In January 2020, 15 under-signatories simultaneously made a commitment to declare a climate emergency on their respective websites and publish an action plan, something that could not be “randomly invented,” Smith said, but “grounded in the demands of climate science.”. On the Program.

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New Study Spotlights How Socio-Political Changes in Europe Impact Events

PCMA Convene

In terms of the last three, the study points to how the rollout of 5G networks, expected to be widespread in 2020, will offer unprecedented speed and connectivity, and give IoT a boost. There is also a growing expectation that venues will operate under sustainable practices, and that it will be a key criterion in site selection.

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