SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2017

Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. Finding a host city for a key meeting can be a geographic Rubik’s cube of schedules and locations that can seem impossible to solve. This short list of places, spaces and notations compiled by the travel risk management company On Call International can help narrow down the options.

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Event Farm

APRIL 19, 2022

One approach is to choose the least stringent areas—for example: Florida, Texas and Arizona, who have looser mandates than other areas of the country—and have an open space in which to set whatever protocol you feel is necessary. “I Here are the takeaways from the panel discussion.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Lorena Chappell Benchmark Resorts & Hotels appoints Lorena Chappell director of sales and marketing for Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas. She most recently worked at Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center of Georgetown, Texas. Do you have an announcement about a new executive-level job appointment?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2018

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. That change had to start at the top.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

When 2,500 meeting planners gathered at the MGM Grand in the entertainment capital of the world to learn and connect, it was inevitable that a party was going to break out. Texas Hill Country Chapter was awarded for Industry Advocacy for its high profile celebration of Global Meetings Day. Have a safety plan.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 14, 2017

The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE) Annual Meeting in Toronto opened bright and early Aug. As an organization, ASAE has a policy to not hold a meeting in a city where discriminatory laws are in effect , but he said he understood that some organizations don’t have a choice if that is where their membership lives. “We

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A little more than two weeks ago, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm. Yesterday afternoon we talked to Mike Waterman, president of Visit Houston, about how his city’s meetings infrastructure came through Harvey, and what’s next. Did Houston’s meetings infrastructure suffer any major damage?

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Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Until recently, he says, the topic of guns at meetings and events simply hasn’t received much attention. At one event, Johnston recalls meeting a couple from Arizona who showed up each wearing a holster with a legal handgun. based scholarly societies, released a statement expressing concern about Texas’ new “campus carry” law.

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Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 27, 2017

Plan Your Meetings is pleased to offer a free, interactive U.S. 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. Firearms at events…and your liability.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

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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Plan Your Meetings

MARCH 6, 2017

In 2010, there were 405 homicides in the workplace due to shootings, explained Mary Goodrich Nix, partner at the Dallas office of Holland & Knight, during the “ Navigating the New Open Carry Laws in Texas ” webinar, citing the U.S. Constitution (how’s that for recognizing the value of meetings and events by America’s founding fathers?)

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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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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

President of the TIR Consulting Group, a senior lecturer at The Wharton School’s Executive Education program, and a main-stage speaker at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 in Austin, Texas, Rifkin was nearly as blunt during our interview as he was with Merkel as he detailed the intertwined environmental and financial crises now facing the planet — and offered (..)

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. convention center — 1,326 doors.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2017

It’s gotten bad enough that Meet Puerto Rico — whose destination has taken a major hit on travel because of the misperception that it’s been ravaged by the Zika virus — organized a forum on May 1 called “Traveling in These Times.” How is the meetings and travel industry responding to this perfect storm of challenges?

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

DGI has military, civilian and industry geospatial intelligence leaders at this year's meeting in London to discuss new policy developments and the latest in technology. East Meets West. Where leading brands meet the smartest startups with a focus in technology, business, and marketing. Digital Geospatial Intelligence (DGI).

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