Protecting High Target Theft Areas At Trade Shows

It’s inevitable – if you gather hundreds or thousands of people together, a few bad eggs are bound to show up and make trouble. That’s especially true in the business of professional conferences and large events where there’s always valuable electronic gear everywhere. Expensive, often small technology attracts thieves like flies to honey; if you don’t create the impression of a secure venue you could quickly find your event targeted. It’s the event’s organizers’ job to best ensure that theft doesn’t happen. Hiring a security staff may be important step, but it’s not the only step that needs to be…

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Insight From Eight of the World’s Greatest Music Festivals

As the people who ran the first Woodstock festival discovered, large music and art events can be chaotic if you don’t know what you’re doing. Whether in a city or a field, you have a lot to lose if everything goes south with a million plus people running around! With that in mind, if your part of a group putting together your first festival or your twenty-first, you want to make sure you’re doing everything right. We always say learn from the best. So we looked at eight of the world’s greatest music festivals and thought about what it is…

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Meal Ideas for Your Next Networking Conference

Let’s talk about food! One of the more fun parts to plan of any event is the food. An event planner must find the perfect caterer for each unique event to keep your guests happy with food and drinks. Networking conferences are great for attendees to meet potential clients, customers, and business partners. Networking conferences are often all about moving around and meeting new people, and mini-events like meals, round table discussions and cocktail hours often help create an environment conducive for meeting others. We’re going to skip over the itinerary phase and assume you have a schedule that includes…

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The Institute Of Event Management – An Ambitious Global Initiative

On July 8, 2014 an interesting and ambitious new organization known as The Institute of Event Management made its official debut at The Meetings Show in Olympia, London. The IEM, initially operating out of the United Kingdom, hopes to eventually become an international organization establishing global professional standards for the event industry. Universal standards in the meetings and event industry have been a long time coming. The Meeting Show was a perfect setting for the announcement of this type of global initiative. This annual event focuses on the needs of professional meeting and events planners providing dedicated educational programs, guest…

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Five Technological Hazards You’ll Encounter As An Event Planner

Technology has the irritating tendency to gleefully implode at the most inopportune moments. Any event planner that’s spent some time in the industry knows exactly what we’re talking about. No one gets away without a mishap. Of course, busted tech is almost always the result of human error somewhere along the line, but that’s beside the point. Here are some of the most common technological hazards event planners are likely to deal with at one point or another. Audio/ Visual Malfunction In any major performance or presentation, your equipment absolutely has to work flawlessly. Maybe that’s a tall order, but…

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