Safety and Security

Controversial topics and speakers, challenging locations, gate crashers, crime, passion, alcohol and human frailty can lead to an interesting meeting if even one of them rears its ugly head…

Get the behind-the-scenes story of organizing and managing the 2010 World Olympics in Vancouver…

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…

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

1 CLOCK HOUR | DOMAIN C: RISK MANAGEMENT

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…

Risk management continues to be a hot topic in the events industry, but the focus is always on reacting to a catastrophe or disaster. While catastrophes and disasters are horrific, they are the responsibility of governments not event professionals…

Risk management continues to be a hot topic in the events industry, but the focus is always on reacting to a catastrophe or disaster. While catastrophes and disasters are horrific, they are the responsibility of governments not event professionals…

The Bataclan Paris. Pulse Nightclub Orlando. Nice Bastille Day. Fort Hood Army Base. Inland Regional Center San Bernardino. The Boston Marathon. Terrorism and active shooters…

If the word pirate conjures images of Blackbeard or Jack Sparrow, consider yourself lucky. Today, for a growing number of meeting planners and associations, the term has a dramatically different—but no less chilling—meaning…

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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…

In the past 18 months there have been unprecedented examples of crisis affecting our industry. This session will provide insights into 3 recent examples of how suppliers and planners worked through unanticipated emergencies…

Acts of violence seem to happen more often today than in years past, and in more vulnerable places, especially where people gather…

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