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Tips from Event Pros: 5 Lessons Learned from Executing Safe Live Events

Event Farm

When you’re in the event industry, ensuring that your events run safely and smoothly isn’t just an ideal to strive for—it’s part of the job description. Keeping everyone safe, engaged, and well-informed can be an enormous challenge; add a pandemic on top of it, and event planning has become more taxing than ever.

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Tips from Event Pros: 5 Lessons Learned from Executing Safe Live Events

Event Farm

When you’re in the event industry, ensuring that your events run safely and smoothly isn’t just an ideal to strive for—it’s part of the job description. Keeping everyone safe, engaged, and well-informed can be an enormous challenge; add a pandemic on top of it, and event planning has become more taxing than ever.

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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

These individuals are leaders, mentors and stars who moved the events industry forward for decades. Executive Vice President & COO , International Association of Exhibitions and Events. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. David Bradley.

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Necessary Conversations

PCMA Convene

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. A New View.

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ASAE Encourages Open Flow of Ideas, Advocates Against Discrimination

SmartMeetings

The same is true of vetting so severe that it discourages people from visiting some cities to attend conferences. “It The fear of not being allowed into a country or back out once in has a negative effect on conference attendance and progress, he warned. We do not impose our position on others,” he clarified in a press conference. “We

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Four Lessons from MPI’s World Education Congress

SmartMeetings

Texas Hill Country Chapter was awarded for Industry Advocacy for its high profile celebration of Global Meetings Day. Here are some of the lessons that can be learned from what ended up being a memorable conference experience. The theme of the event was “stop planning meetings and start designing experiences”.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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