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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

Director of Conventions & Meetings. Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. Manager, Meetings/Events & Exhibits. Society of Government Meeting Professionals. International Meeting Managers, Inc.

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Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021

Smart Meetings

Meeting professionals today are risk managers.” We invited Dallas attorney Ty Sheaks back in July, this time to delve more into unraveling and defining some of the seeming arbitrariness of contract negotiation. We discuss the potential legal repercussions of incorporating necessary Covid protocols and how to do it safely.

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10 Best U.S. Cities for Business Travel

SmartMeetings

Finding a host city for a key meeting can be a geographic Rubik’s cube of schedules and locations that can seem impossible to solve. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Meeting space: 4.2 million sq.

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Successful Event Planning Considerations: What Makes or Breaks an Event?

The Castle Group

To a meeting planner, a successful event means achieving these goals and more. When planning a large meeting with attendees from around the country/world, select a location with an easy airlift and infrastructure suitable for big groups (i.e., Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Las Vegas, etc.). What makes an event successful?

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Four Lessons from MPI’s World Education Congress

SmartMeetings

When 2,500 meeting planners gathered at the MGM Grand in the entertainment capital of the world to learn and connect, it was inevitable that a party was going to break out. The Northern California Chapter was recognized for Marketplace Excellence and Educational Programming (also given to the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter).

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Firearms at events…and your liability

Plan Your Meetings

In 2010, there were 405 homicides in the workplace due to shootings, explained Mary Goodrich Nix, partner at the Dallas office of Holland & Knight, during the “ Navigating the New Open Carry Laws in Texas ” webinar, citing the U.S. Constitution (how’s that for recognizing the value of meetings and events by America’s founding fathers?)

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

International meetings, conventions, and other business events are melting pots. So many of our communities are like that now — from Burning Man to biker meet-ups to book groups. I believe that any program where people meet “the other” can be incredibly valuable.’. Outrage is in, discourse is out. DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE.

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