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Top tips for planning your event security

Eventinterface

Meeting and event professionals are very much aware of the security challenges generated by bringing people together. In recent days, we have been confronted once again by televised images of terror being inflicted on participants at events, walking a bridge or attending a meeting.

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AI Governance: Balancing Competitiveness with Compliance

Management Events

This is an element in the proposed AI Act as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation from the past decade which employs the Brussels effect – meaning that the rules applied by Europe for Europe also apply to companies outside of Europe that do business here even if they do not have a physical presence here.

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6 Emergency Response Tips for Meeting Planners

SmartMeetings

As professional event planners grapple with security concerns at meetings , emergency preparedness has become a hot issue. Questions arise about who is responsible for ensuring that business meetings and association events are safe and secure environments (see “ Zeroing In on Security ” from the April issue of Smart Meetings magazine).

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Planning in the eye of the storm

Plan Your Meetings

These events are an important reminder for event planners that disaster can strike at anywhere and at any time. Before events, particularly those that are away from home base, be sure to collect information about citizenships and emergency contacts for all participants. After they hit, it can be difficult to recover.

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

Instead, in a fitting geographical twist, the location was Brussels. International meetings, conventions, and other business events are melting pots. Because of that, Graham wonders if attendees will be more willing to discuss current events, or anxious to avoid conversations involving politics and policies. DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE.

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Bracing for Brexit

PCMA Convene

Group Gmbh, headquartered in Berlin; Alessandro Cortese, CEO of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO), based in Brussels; and Nata Nambatingué, congress manager for the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), in Sophia Antipolis, France. What could the Brexit mean for international meetings and business events?

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Bracing for Brexit

PCMA Convene

Group Gmbh, headquartered in Berlin; Alessandro Cortese, CEO of the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO), based in Brussels; and Nata Nambatingué, congress manager for the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), in Sophia Antipolis, France. What could the Brexit mean for international meetings and business events?

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