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Hurricane Hurdles: Is Your Event Contract Well Prepared?

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While there were no events at the Charleston Area Convention Center and none scheduled until August 14, a 150-person medical meeting, the Urgent Care Symposium, was scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the Hilton Garden Inn Charleston Waterfront/Downtown. It was cancelled.

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. If we had a hybrid component, we would probably have more people opting in to go virtual; that changes what we would have been able to do on site because of our commitments to the hotel and the contracts.”.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. The solution?

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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

Smart Meetings

During this webinar, Ludwig shows the many advancements meeting professionals may come into contact with in the near and distant future, such as second-floor public transport, futuristic venues and self-driving luggage. Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. Attorney, author and faculty legal advisor Ty M.

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Meeting-Negotiation Essentials: F&B, AV, and More

MeetingsNet

7 business-event pros weigh in on how to get what you need in an event contract and stay on budget. It featured seven planners and suppliers who offered their perspectives and advice for meeting organizers to get what they need while staying on budget. Sound familiar?

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