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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. CEO, Center for Exhibition Industry Research. Michael Downs, CAE, CMP. Director of Conventions & Meetings. Kiwanis International. Indianapolis. President/CEO. Tradeshow Logic. Acworth, Georgia. Mark Everton. Visit Oakland. Oakland, California.

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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

This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. A work hard, play hard motto fits well in Dallas with more than 12,000 dining options, 200 golf courses and 20 entertainment districts. Meeting space: 1 million sq.

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

The Castle Group

Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Las Vegas, etc.). Although delays can happen at any time in any location, hosting a meeting in Chicago in the dead of winter or the Caribbean during hurricane season runs the risk of severe weather events that may impact the program. However, the time of year is also important.

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Four Lessons from MPI’s World Education Congress

SmartMeetings

The Rise Awards honored Ginny Fontain from the Carolinas Chapter as Member of the Year; Colleen Rickenbacher from the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter as Meeting Industry Leader; Natalie Beiro from the Potomac Chapter as young professional; and Mike Dominguez, chief sales officer at MGM Resorts International, was given the Chair’s Award.

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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. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Getting a grip on event firearms policies

Plan Your Meetings

A trio of partners from the Dallas office of Holland & Knight held a webinar this year titled “ Navigating the New Open Carry Laws in Texas.” The landscape of best practices for hotels as relates to gun policies is complicated, involving branding factors, franchise agreements, locations, adjacent facilities and more.

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