February Educational Program

Virtual Zoom Meeting

10:30am – 11:30am – Board of Directors Meeting
11:45am – Event opens and Networking
12:00pm – 1:30pm – Announcements and Education Program
1:30pm - 2:00pm - Member Orientation

Pandemic Risk Management Must Knows:
What are the Key Factors to Ensure Resiliency for Your Pandemic Meetings and Events?

The hospitality industry is focusing on recovery and figuring out how to rebuild for the “new normal”.  We have come to terms that full health and economic resilience is going to take much longer than ever imagined….We have no control over the inevitable next, new crisis but we can control our state of preparedness.  Our post pandemic meetings and events must be built with systems ready to mobilize and mitigate the risk of both foreseeable or unforeseeable disruptions and catastrophes. Organizers and planners understand that Safety is #1 priority, and  they must  be able to communicate to the attendees why they should feel safe.  The revitalized attendee value proposition encapsulates safety, wellness, sustainability.  This proposition has to be rooted in authentic caring and concern, resulting in attendee confidence and “feeling safe” to return to face-to-face events.

Learner Objectives:

• Learn metrics to test the resiliency of your organization to mitigate the next inevitable crisis (Being prepared when attendee gets virus at your event!)
• Understand how to integrate the duty of care best practices to prepare for threat of any future crisis
• Explore leadership skills that will produce enduring risk management strategies for your teams

The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Events Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS Domain:TBA

Speaker Bio

Brenda Rivers, JD, HMCC, CIS
President of SAFE LLC™
event risk management consulting & founder of Andavo Meetings

As the founder of Andavo Meetings and Incentives and the President of SAFE LLC, Brenda Rivers believes the meeting industry has a heightened duty of care to ensure the safety of participants, safeguard the organizer’s financial integrity and protect against legal liability and reputation damage. Author of “The Safe Approach”, she is recognized for her unique and practical risk management training and consulting. Her book,  “How to Develop a Risk Management Playbook”, was based on her 25 years as a meeting professional experiencing all kinds of event disruptions and crises, plus her background in hospitality law. 

Named as a 2018 Meetings Today Trendsetter, Rivers is one of the leading meeting professionals to raise the alarm about how unprepared we were when the pandemic struck.  Her contributions on the standards of care for the event industry are featured in the Apex Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force:  Accepted Practiced Guide, by the Events Industry Council, September 2020.

Rivers is passionate about sharing her duty of care approach with planners and organizers. She has created a totally free, on-demand MiniLearning course:

Recover and Rebuild Mini Series | Safe LLC™ | Sound Advice For Events
The SAFE APPROACH™ MiniLearning Episodes Recover and Rebuild: Safety of People is the #1 Priority Designed to help you assess your risk in safely resuming events during and after the 2020 pandemic. The SAFE™ On-Demand MiniLearning course is created to help you build risk management leadership skills…
https://www.safellc.com/recover-and-rebuild-minilearning

Members: $15
Non-members: $25
Students: $0

MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter is a CMP Preferred Provider. The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Event Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS DomainTBA This events attendance roster will be uploaded to the EIC for CE credits tracking (if applicable).If you do not have a EIC account, you can create one atwww.eventscouncil.org In order for these records to be accepted by EIC, the email used for registration MUST match (case sensitive) the email provided to the EIC for your account.