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Innovation Women calls on event organisers & venues to commit to making events no “Manel Zones”

Event Industry News

The new campaign urges conferences, event organisers and venues to support gender-balance, diversity and inclusion on stage. Manel” is industry jargon for a panel of featured speakers at a conference or event consisting of all men. Speaking exclusively to Event Industry News, Carlton added: “This is a global problem.

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Castle Takes The Stage With Key Leaders in Boston at Annual Mission to Motion Panel Event

The Castle Group

On September 14, 2022, Castle convened a group of leaders impassioned about creating a positive impact in Massachusetts for our Mission to Motion panel at the MassChallenge Seaport Office, part of City Awake ’s 2022 Fierce Urgency of Now Festival. Co-Founder and Principal of The Castle Group. Greenaway, Jr., ABOUT FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW.

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Smart Moves in Boston, Los Angeles and More

Smart Meetings

Green is general manager for Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most recently, she worked as dual general manager for Hyatt House/Hyatt Place in Colorado. Green has also worked in a handful of roles with Denver Marriott Westminster, including general manager and director of event management.

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Smart Moves in Rancho Mirage, Atlantic City and More

Smart Meetings

Bruggemans was most recently an adjunct faculty member in the Hospitality Management Program at California State University, San Bernardino. She has previously been executive director of Sumba Hospitality Foundation in Indonesia, F&B manager for Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, conference services manager for Riviera Palm Springs and more.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. By the Numbers.

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I Just Need a Ride

The Event Concierge

Is your ride request competing against a local conference in town; is there a major event that needs to transport masses of guests, or is it a major holiday? Growing up in the east coast of Massachusetts, I always remembered the mailman’s supposed motto of “neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail will …….”

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Events and Venues Face New Challenges to Safety, Security

PCMA Convene

Back when I ran my first conference, I never had to think about someone attacking [the speaker] or jumping on stage,” Parr said. “I Yet it seems to be a risk that event organizers need to add to their list of safety and security considerations. “It Samuel Thomas Jr. I never, ever, considered those things.”

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