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Five Risk Management Tips For Your Holiday Event

Event Leadership Institute

The answer is two words: risk management. Event organizers and hosts are responsible for the safety and well-being of their guests and the risks associated with events, in particular the serving of alcohol can be especially daunting. How can a holiday party planner be responsible for saving Christmas?

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Seeking Innovators, Experts, and Educators in Meeting Planning

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Whether your meetings specialty is event design, contract negotiations, operations management, sustainability, risk management, virtual events, speaker trends, food & beverage, or something else entirely, our call for speakers is seeking fresh voices to educate and spark new ideas for meetings and conventions.

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7 Steps to Creating a Proactive Medical Risk Management Plan

MeetingsNet

Don’t wait until you have a medical disaster on your hands to realize you should have spent as much time planning for medical issues as you did for food and beverage. Here are the steps he recommends to create a proactive medical risk management plan. When kids travel, they tend to get sick more often,” Spero says. .

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Smart Moves in Aspen, Islamorada and More

Smart Meetings

Brennan Bastyovansky Brennan Bastyovansky, WTP Bastyovansky will serve as general manager of sales and marketing for World Travel Protection (WTP). He brings an extensive background in travel risk management, with experience in business growth, strategic development and building lasting relationships with customers and partners.

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Smart Moves in Las Vegas, New York and More

Smart Meetings

In this new role, Michaels will expand her scope to oversee all legal, risk management, internal audits, compliance and workers compensation functions within the company. Joining Helderman on the executive team is Michaels, after her promotion from general counsel to chief administrative officer.

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Events Industry Council releases Accepted Practices Guide for Hotel Health and Safety

Event Industry News

This guide offers insights beyond those guidelines focusing on four key areas: Transmission barriers Enhanced sanitisation Health screening Food and beverage guidelines. In July, EIC released the Meeting and Event Design Accepted Practices Guide. The task force roster can be found on the EIC website here.

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Financial Meeting Planners Face Special Challenges During Crises

SmartMeetings

Managing risk is particularly important in the financial and insurance meetings sector, and meeting planners play a key role in this process. Developing risk management plans and protocols is a “big and important question,” Panepinto says. Risk management is a team challenge and should be approached from every angle.”.