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1.25 Clock Hours | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Being great is no longer a differentiator. It is merely the entry fee. Winning is about leveraging competitive advantages, because competition is brutal, choices are vast and quality abounds! Branding veteran David Avrin, CSP will show you how to create meaningful differentiators to earn mind-share and build your brand.
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1.25 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Doing more with less is the new normal. In response, event strategists are leveraging spend, forming strategic partnerships inside and outside their organizations, implementing smart negotiating tactics and getting clever with the money they have available. If you want fresh, clever ideas about how to spend responsibly and be a fiscal rock star, this is the place to be.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Get answers to your challenges from your peers while discovering the power of the Fishbowl, which allows large groups of people to have intimate discussions by creating a revolving panel of participants. We’ll solve the real-world challenges of people in the room—and what’s keeping us all up at night.
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Not for Clock Hour Credit
The panel discussion will cover industry trends, growing and changing medical education needs, compliance and issues, and how Las Vegas as a destination is responding to those trends and needs. The panel will also touch on how meetings planners can incorporate wellness into meetings for all industries, and navigating unique challenges.
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1.25 Clock Hours | Domain C: Risk Management
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. There is very little information on how to understand, and create, risk management plans. In this session you will get the chance to apply the Robson Risk Management Model to real events. You’ll walk away with an understanding of risk management and with an approach to creating a personalized risk management plan.
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1.25 Clock Hours | Domain E: Human Resources
Think you have what it takes to be a CEO? This session will help you reflect on your experience, training, perspectives, and assumptions in assessing your viability for the C-suite. Explore what you possess and what skills you need to develop in leading, managing change, and transitioning to executive management.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Ciara Feely asked a group of planners what their suppliers do to drive them mad. She got 109 responses in just more than 72 hours. Discover the responses she got, and brainstorm solutions to these challenges with your peers. This is an interactive session, so be prepared to share and take notes.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
The key to lead generation is knowing the difference between a prospect and a suspect. A prospect is a legitimate potential customer. A suspect is disguised as a prospect but is not going to buy your product and wastes your valuable sales time. In this session you’ll learn how to spot the difference and move forward.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
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.” Using provided scenarios as well as examples from the audience, we’ll talk about the law that supports (and doesn’t support) common contract language and minor changes in wording that can yield huge dividends in protection.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Like every other industry, the meetings industry is changing right in front of our eyes. This data-packed session will unveil 20 provocative predictions of what our industry might look like in the next 1-2 decades and introduce ways we can embrace them. The trends addressed will have an impact on our day to day lives, so understanding them will be of utmost importance in being able to embrace them. We will examine the tools you need to stay ahead of the curve during these changing times. The more able you are to talk about the future, the better able you are to stand out amongst your competitors.
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