Legal and Compliance

Negotiation is essential but the key is to ensure your contracts are legally clear, inclusive and enforceable, and the parties don’t end up in court. This advanced level workshop will discuss critical clauses and their hidden risks…

* Identify cutting-edge contracting trends affecting the meetings industry

Find out about current legal challenges and see if you can stump the lawyers!

Does it seem like every single person attending your events is either allergic to a particular food or abstaining from an entire food group? This session will help explain the big eight food allergens as well touch on the most common dietary restrictions…

What are your concerns when it comes to risk management? Are you feeling that you may be unprepared if something catastrophic occurs? In this session, a veteran meeting professional and experienced hospitality attorney will guide you in discussing how to identify resources and be prepared for whate…

International meetings are becoming more complex in today’s challenging times. This session will focus on the most important legal issues in today’s global meeting contracts…

Medical meeting professionals are faced with the most complex and confounding changes in industry practices. Plus, global compliance regulations and codes are changing faster than we can track…

This workshop will focus upon the impact of the new European transparency reporting regulations. Similar to Open Payments, the challenge in Europe is compliance with local country requirements and cross border implementation…

Social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter present a variety of new ways for planners and meeting sponsors to market their meetings and interact with attendees…

MPI has recently launched the MPI MD, a special interest community for the healthcare and life sciences community. In this session, you'll learn what this special community can do for you and see what educational opportunities exist for healthcare meeting professionals…

The devil is in the details when preparing or revising hotel contracts. Terms that appear to be reasonable or standard may contain serious and expensive pitfalls for the unwary and untrained…

Meeting venues are your biggest expense and are often the most negotiable. Yet, venue sales managers are far better at negotiation than planners. In this session, you'll learn strategies and tactics that even the odds…

Do you find it increasingly challenging to locate your event Wi-Fi network amidst all the other networks visible on your phone, tablet, or laptop? Or, do they drop off when you least expect it? Tune in to this session to learn all about Wi-Fi issues…

Active shooter scenario, medical emergency, natural disaster. How would you react?Event security experts say it is not a question of if but when…

If you plan meetings for healthcare professionals, you might want to know that recently, there were changes to codes of compliance in nine countries and three U.S. states…

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Meeting professionals have embraced dramatic changes in medical meeting management over the past 3 years. What can we expect in the next 3 years? As more countries adopt some type of medical compliance reporting, you’ll need to be prepared for the future expectations from governments and HCP’s…

Meeting professionals have embraced dramatic changes in medical meeting management over the past 3 years. What can we expect in the next 3 years? As more countries adopt some type of medical compliance reporting, you’ll need to be prepared for the future expectations from governments and HCP’s…

Meeting professionals know safety and security is important, but less than half actually have a meetings-specific crisis plan…

Performance clauses like attrition and cancellation are challenging to negotiate and sometimes expensive to exercise. Force majeure is the very definition of a “grey area…

Although performance clauses like attrition and cancellation are challenging, it is sometimes the other clauses that create the biggest challenges…

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Business travel can be aggravating, stressful and potentially dangerous. Constant flight delays, security challenges, changes in time zones and climates play havoc with body and mind…

Join representatives from various industry organizations including IAEE (International Association of Exhibitions and Events) who will discuss this new collaborative initiative, and by extension their members, can work together to make our meetings, conventions, and venues more safe in light of rec…