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An Introduction to Event Insurance Essentials

Event Leadership Institute

While certain occurrences can be handled by quick thinking and taking preventative measures, other things that could go wrong may require insurance. As a result, it’s important for event and meeting planners to have a good grasp of basic insurance principles to ensure that they have the proper coverage for their events.

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Five Risk Management Tips For Your Holiday Event

Event Leadership Institute

Being the person that speaks up at a holiday event planning meeting and addresses tough, valid and scary concerns around the safety and well-being of your guests, could earn you the nickname Ebenezer Scrooge, but rest assured you will soar to the top of the “nice” list when you save Christmas! The answer is two words: risk management.

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Why Risk Management Is an Essential Part of Planning an Event

Floktu

Risk management is an essential aspect of project management and, more specifically, in planning an event. Risk” can be defined as any unwanted event or situation that can lead to the failure of your project or event. Financial risks can be covered and mentioned in lots of different ways.

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In the Cloud We Trust

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings spoke with Ari Schwartz, former senior director of cybersecurity at the White House (he worked on technology policy during the Obama administration), and current managing director of cybersecurity services for Venable Cybersecurity Risk Management Group , to discuss best security practices meeting planners should consider in 2023.

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9 Essential Tips to Reduce Hybrid Event Risk

Eventsforce

Read: How to Handle a Big Crisis at Your Event. Insurance is NOT Risk Management . A small but nevertheless important note here about insurance. Having insurance doesn’t reduce your risk which is why we didn’t include it in our list. Read: Insurance for virtual events – what you need to know.

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Planning a Safe Event: Back to Basics

Endless Events

Around the world, tragic incidents at events like the Las Vegas shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing, and natural disasters have shown that we aren’t prepared for every type of security and safety issue in our industry. Regardless of the scale of your event, planning a safe event needs to be your priority.

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Lack of planning won’t avert an emergency

Plan Your Meetings

Is there political unrest in the city where your event will be held? Risk management is defined as the identification, evaluation, analysis, mitigation, communication and monitoring of risks. 4 phases of risk management. Risk management has four phases, and this is where analysis steps in.