Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

These individuals are leaders, mentors and stars who moved the events industry forward for decades. Shreveport/Bossier, Louisiana. Executive Vice President & COO , International Association of Exhibitions and Events. Director of Conventions & Meetings. Senior Business Events Manager. David Bradley.

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Meetings Risk Management Banking Government 76

Plan Your Meetings

MAY 20, 2019

Flashback to Fall 2001, post-9/11, event organizers everywhere were clamoring for information on how to create an emergency preparedness/crisis communication plan. Certainly, event facilities and other public places, including hotels, have developed emergency plans. RELATED STORY: Event safety tips from a meteorologist.

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Risk Management 2001 Insurance 2016 42

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 19, 2016

The flooding in Louisiana is being called the worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, leaving at least 13 people dead and driving tens of thousands more from their homes in and around Baton Rouge. So your meetings and events business hasn’t really been disrupted? How are things going?

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2012 Hotels Contracts Meetings 40

Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 18, 2018

Imagine you’re planning an annual event. The event is only a few days away. Or perhaps a two-week-long riot (Baltimore 2015) prevents your supplier from meeting a key deadline. Or something as simple as a power outage that lasts for more than eight hours forces the venue to close just a few hours before the event. (CC)

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Plan Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Imagine you’re planning an annual event. The event is only a few days away. Or perhaps a two-week-long riot (Baltimore 2015) prevents your supplier from meeting a key deadline. Or something as simple as a power outage that lasts for more than eight hours forces the venue to close just a few hours before the event. (CC)

Insurance 43

Insurance 2016 2015 Venues 43

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 3, 2017

That would be Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm in late August before moving along the Gulf Coast to Louisiana. Did you have any major meeting or convention business in the city at that time? Did Houston’s meetings infrastructure suffer any major damage? Then, on Thursday [Aug.

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