POSTPONED: Changing Landscape of Risk Management

Meetings and events of all kinds were turned upside down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, drastically altering the landscape of risk management. Face-to-face meetings, once the mainstay of education, took a back seat to virtual and hybrid meetings generating additional risk management aspects in contracts, risk issues, platforms for virtual and hybrid meetings, intellectual property and data privacy, vendor contracts, and legislative impacts. Analyze next steps in adapting, renegotiating, and understanding new contracts and their risk management impacts, including adherence to up-to-date health and safety protocols. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

MaryAnne Bobrow, CAE, CMP, CMM has more than 20 years of experience in association and meetings management. She is an active member of and volunteers for multiple industry associations, serving in multiple leadership roles including past chair MPI Chapter Advisory Council, MPI Independent and Small Business Advisory Board Co-chair, MPI Anti-Human Trafficking Committee, and ASAE Ethics Committee, among others. She is an approved facilitator for the chapter leadership program, has authored chapters for CIC Manual, 9th Edition, IAEE’s Art of the Show, 3rd and 4th Editions, and PCMA’s Professional Meeting Management, 5th and 6th Editions, and writes articles for and/or records webinars for industry organizations and magazines. She is a frequent presenter at industry events, with focus on business acumen and trends, risk management, financial proficiencies, attendee safety and security, cybersecurity, human trafficking awareness, and disruption innovation for meetings and organizations.

Jonathan T. Howe is President and Founding Partner of Howe & Hutton, Ltd. He is recognized as one of the true leaders of the not-for-profit organization bar as well as the hospitality and meetings, travel, incentive, hotel, and trade show industries, and for trial and appellate advocacy. Jon serves as General Counsel to Meeting Professionals International, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Association Committee of 100, The Sports & Fitness Industry Association and International Special Events Society, to name just a few. He is the special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel. He was selected by his peers as a Member Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives and received the "Pacesetters Award" from the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International. He was named the inaugural recipient of the Hospitality Industry Attorneys of the Year by the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys.

 This session is approved for One (1)CMP credit