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Houston After Harvey

PCMA Convene

A little more than two weeks ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm. Nearly 10,000 people ended up sheltering in place at Houston’s George R. And then the sun came out, the waters receded, and Houston started the hard work of drying out and cleaning up. Photo © 2017 The Washington Post.

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Houston After Harvey

PCMA Convene

Brown Convention Center (GRB) sits where it does in downtown Houston. It was designed that way, according to Mike Waterman, president of Visit Houston. 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. Then, on Thursday [Aug.

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First Class: Meet the Inaugural 15 Over 50

Connect Your Meetings

Senior Business Events Manager. RIMS, Risk Management Society. Destination Management Connection. Senior Director of Conference and Events Management. International Meeting Managers, Inc. Houston, Texas. President/CEO. Tradeshow Logic. Acworth, Georgia. Mark Everton. Visit Oakland. Stephanie D.

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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. Meeting space: 4.2 million sq. Guest rooms: 30,577.

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Planning in the eye of the storm

Plan Your Meetings

Last week saw headlines about the destruction and flooding due to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and the monsoons in Mumbai. If you wish to help meeting and event industry professionals who were affected by Hurricane please donate to the MPI Houston Area Chapter Disaster Relief Fund. After they hit, it can be difficult to recover.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Walker is a faculty of the Foster School of Business, at the University of Washington, as Director of Experiential Learning in Analytics and Senior Lecturer of Marketing and International Business, where he teaches a course in Analytics, Marketing, Risk Management, and Digital Strategy. Where to find him? Seema Acharya Who is she?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Walker is a faculty of the Foster School of Business, at the University of Washington, as Director of Experiential Learning in Analytics and Senior Lecturer of Marketing and International Business, where he teaches course in Analytics, Marketing, Risk Management, and Digital Strategy. Where to find him? Seema Acharya Who is she?