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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

ADMEI

Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays. Will travel routes be affected? Contracts : Are your contracts with venues and vendors solid? Do your vendors and venues have emergency plans? Is another expected?

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When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event

Smart Meetings

Here is a list of questions you may want to ask yourself and your team before planning your next event: Do you have another nearby venue where you could host the event? Should you arrange transportation for attendees to get to another venue, or would you cancel it altogether? It’s important to also communicate with attendees remotely.

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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

Smart Meetings

Before the storm hits, it’s advisable to communicate with attendees, vendors and speakers. Are there any areas of the event venue prone to flooding? Can attendees come to the venue or should they stay where they are? How does transportation need to be arranged? How does transportation need to be arranged?

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DMC

ADMEI

You want a company that knows its city well and has built excellent relationships with venues and vendors in the area. How do you approach vendor relationships? One of the advantages of working with a DMC is gaining secondhand access to their vendor network. Are they responsive communicators?

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Five ways explicit communication improves meetings

Conferences that Work

But often, explicit communication — saying or writing what’s needed to guide or influence desired behavior — improves matters over staying silent or beating around the bush. Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. A little explicit pre-party communication will improve your meeting.

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Evolution of Spatial Design Technology Could Simplify Event Planning

Smart Meetings

You can take a photorealistic, accurately scaled venue space and lay it out in any configuration to see it in different lights and look at different layers—electricity, guestlist, catering, AV production, anything—and show infinite possibilities using a digital twin,” said Prismm CEO Yaron Lipshitz. Now it is unified,” Lipshitz said.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

Smart Meetings

Read More : When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event A sporting event being held in a high occupancy stadium will have more dynamic risks than a conference due to the size of the venue and activities taking place. For security, implement measures to protect attendees and the event venue.

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