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Tips from Event Pros: 5 Lessons Learned from Executing Safe Live Events

Event Farm

When you’re in the event industry, ensuring that your events run safely and smoothly isn’t just an ideal to strive for—it’s part of the job description. Keeping everyone safe, engaged, and well-informed can be an enormous challenge; add a pandemic on top of it, and event planning has become more taxing than ever.

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Live Shooter Attack in Texas: A Reminder Planners Must Consider the Unthinkable

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In the aftermath of a mass shooting at a church in Texas that killed 26 people just a month after an attack at a concert in Las Vegas killed 58 attendees, the responsibility of event planners to keep people safer became even more urgent. Take time to understand the venue, what it offers and what you need to fill in. Mitigation.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

Smart Meetings

Training programs are upping the event planning standard. In recent weeks, two event professional organizations have launched certification programs and internet-based classes designed with the goal of making event profs better at what they do. EST and will cover the intricacies of the contracting phase to managing a live event.

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Tips from Event Pros: 5 Lessons Learned from Executing Safe Live Events

Event Farm

When you’re in the event industry, ensuring that your events run safely and smoothly isn’t just an ideal to strive for—it’s part of the job description. Keeping everyone safe, engaged, and well-informed can be an enormous challenge; add a pandemic on top of it, and event planning has become more taxing than ever.

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Gun laws & event venues interactive state-by-state map

Plan Your Meetings

map showing state-by-state gun laws as they relate to meeting and event venues. You’ll also get information related to exemptions in the law that apply specifically to potential meeting and event venues. Getting a grip on event firearms policies. Firearms at events…and your liability.

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10 Best U.S. Cities for Business Travel

SmartMeetings

Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options. Everything really is bigger in Texas, including Houston. making it ideal for a large event. Meeting space: 4.2 million sq.

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Four Lessons from MPI’s World Education Congress

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Texas Hill Country Chapter was awarded for Industry Advocacy for its high profile celebration of Global Meetings Day. The well-being of attendees is always the first concern for planners, but only 50% have written risk management plans according to MPI research. Allow magic to happen.