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Planning a Safe Event: Back to Basics

Endless Events

Although planning a safe event has always been part of the event industry, it’s at the forefront of event organizer’s minds now, more than ever. And with tech playing a larger role in event planning and production, not only do we need to be on top of physical threats, but cybersecurity concerns as well.

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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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Planning for Unexpected Danger at Your Event

PCMA Convene

Depending on the destina-tion, the venue, the topic of the meeting, the speakers, and the audience, attendees will be reassured to know you’re being realistic about potential threats. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues. First, what do you tell attendees about your event security? A BASIC LEVEL OF SECURITY.

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Planning for Unexpected Danger at Your Event

PCMA Convene

Depending on the destina-tion, the venue, the topic of the meeting, the speakers, and the audience, attendees will be reassured to know you’re being realistic about potential threats. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues. First, what do you tell attendees about your event security? A BASIC LEVEL OF SECURITY.

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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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Lessons Learned From Combining Two Meetings

PCMA Convene

I’ve been writing about the planning process for ASM Microbe for the last year ( here , here , and here ), and was on site at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the first two days of the conference last week. Look for my article about that in our September issue.).