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MPI Announces New Courses to Address Security, Risk Management

SmartMeetings

Less than 50 percent of meeting planners have risk management plans in place for their events, said Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), in remarks given at WEC 2017 on Tuesday. This course will be offered in January 2018 at the SITE MPI Global Forum in Rome.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Defining Risk.

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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. RIMS18 Session.

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What Did You Do Differently Last Year?

PCMA Convene

Cut videoing of presentations. For our largest event in 2016 we had to turn away more than 150 people. This event originally was just for our state but now is becoming a regional event. •We We have implemented a risk-management manual to our events and we have purchased more event insurance for better protection.

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The Corporate Holiday Party: Pulling It Off in Six Weeks

Decibel Management

With all the guest celebrity appearance booking and décor selection fun out of the way, it’s time to turn your attention to the less fun task of health protocol and risk management planning. Or, if six steps are four steps too many, we also present your two-step guide to pulling off a spectacular holiday event.

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Managing Risk, From Multiple Angles

PCMA Convene

“Indeed, it was an extraordinary task,” Guignard told listeners during a presentation at last summer’s PCMA Global Professionals Conference in Paris, a session that was recorded for the latest The Intersection video by PSAV. The COP21 security budget was 184 million Euros.)

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

B: Project management. C: Risk management. D: Financial management. G: Stakeholder management. H: Meeting or event design. I: Site management. Evaluate/audit meeting or event. Evaluate effectiveness of risk management plan. B: Project management. Manage contracts.