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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

With today’s headlines, risk management is on every event professional’s radar. The best way to take steps toward protecting your attendees in the case of emergency is to have a clear emergency management plan for each event you host. Ask your venue contact about existing risk management or emergency procedures already in place.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

B: Project management. C: Risk management. D: Financial management. G: Stakeholder management. I: Site management. Evaluate effectiveness of risk management plan. B: Project management. It also will help you set policies, procedures and manage expectations.

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Tough Calls

PCMA Convene

” The “good news,” he told Convene, “ is that any non-discrimination ordinance or policies that were in place prior to HB2 now apply and are in effect, . “I don’t think there’s a city in the country that has better non-discrimination laws than what we have.

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Controversial Convention Draws Lawmakers’ Indignation

MeetingsNet

The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown’s decision to host the Moms for Liberty national convention has lawmakers asking questions, and raises important risk management issues for meeting professionals to consider. For meeting professionals, the situation is a good reminder of several site-selection and risk-management best practices.

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Travel bans hurt meetings & progress

Plan Your Meetings

policy toward HIV-positive people (the revised disease list remained in debate), the Boston conference would not take place. Bush’s administration that should HIV remain on the list, the planned Eighth International AIDS Conference, scheduled for Boston the following year, would likely be cancelled.

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