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Event Contract Essentials in the Covid Era

SmartMeetings

Meeting professionals today are risk managers. Co-insurance should include coverage for third-party claims, so that if an attendee gets injured or sick, you are held harmless. It should also stipulate that claims of property damage should be limited to the amount of property insurance. There is always risk.

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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Top tips for planning your event security

Eventinterface

Mark Deane, CEO with ETS Risk Management brings years of experience to this conversation. Mark is a risk management specialist whose experience stems from his career working as an Operational Officer for the British Government. How will you vet people, manage and control all access and exit points?

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9 Essential Tips to Reduce Hybrid Event Risk

Eventsforce

So you should absolutely undertake a risk assessment, but it is not down to just walking through an individuals’ evacuation plan. Managing attendee, speaker and other stakeholders’ expectations is a key focus for your event success. Insurance is NOT Risk Management . 5) Determine Your Disability Plan .

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Necessary Conversations

PCMA Convene

After wrapping up what he felt was another successful Risk Management Society (RIMS) conference in 2017, RIMS vice president of events and education, Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES, got some disturbing feedback: Multiple women said they had felt out of place at the event. Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES. RIMS18 Session. RIMS18 Diversity Meetup.

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What Did You Do Differently Last Year?

PCMA Convene

We have implemented a risk-management manual to our events and we have purchased more event insurance for better protection. Increase in what we budget for food and beverage, and managing other costs more closely. Started implementing a strategic meetings management program.• . • Lowered meeting costs.

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How to help people in effective networking at the event – case of the Yacht Racing Forum 2017

Eventory

Organized annually by MaxComm Communication, the event reassembles up to 400 participants: event organizers, teams, venues, technical providers, media, insurance and financial companies etc: the sport of sailing’s key actors from all over the world. The Yacht Racing Forum is the leading conference for the business of sailing and yacht racing.

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