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New Privacy Regulations for Event Data Coming in 2023

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It’s been about five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, went into effect, putting strict rules in place for collecting, storing, and processing data on EU citizens. Blood reviewed the history of the EU’s GDPR as well as California’s effort in 2018 to enact its own data-protection regulation.

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New U.S. Privacy Laws Will Give More Power to Meeting Attendees

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states’ data privacy regulations closer to the European Union’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which passed in 2018. GDPR is the EU’s premier law on data protection and regulation (“the toughest privacy and security law in the world,” according to GDPR.eu ). The new laws will bring these U.S. Jill Blood.

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Event Case Study: Indoor Ag at Las Vegas’ Caesars Forum

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Using the power of events to connect the wider farming community Since purchasing Indoor Ag-Con in 2018, CEO Brian Sullivan and his team’s goal has been to push for more education about emerging technologies and budding trends around controlled environment agriculture (CEA).

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How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener

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I first started looking at this for one specific client in 2018 or 2019. The industry is self-regulating itself. How are you crafting solutions to these challenges? BH [You have to ask] what the expectations are and what’s achievable. We wanted to start comparing hotels that the client was using. So that’s the problem.

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How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener

Smart Meetings

I first started looking at this for one specific client in 2018 or 2019. The industry is self-regulating itself. How are you crafting solutions to these challenges? BH [You have to ask] what the expectations are and what’s achievable. We wanted to start comparing hotels that the client was using. So that’s the problem.

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How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener

Smart Meetings

I first started looking at this for one specific client in 2018 or 2019. The industry is self-regulating itself. How are you crafting solutions to these challenges? BH [You have to ask] what the expectations are and what’s achievable. We wanted to start comparing hotels that the client was using. So that’s the problem.

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How Planners Can Make Their Events Greener

Smart Meetings

I first started looking at this for one specific client in 2018 or 2019. The industry is self-regulating itself. How are you crafting solutions to these challenges? BH [You have to ask] what the expectations are and what’s achievable. We wanted to start comparing hotels that the client was using. So that’s the problem.

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