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Meeting security requires planning, communications

Note: The positions of CEOs and other executives interviewed for this story may have changed since the initial reporting of this story.   Mass shootings. Extreme weather. Increasingly, association CEOs have to be ready for everything while holding trade shows and meetings.That means making and revising comprehensive emergency plans, coordinating with local authorities and stakeholders and doing after-action reports to see what can be tightened up.Unfortunately, the mass shooting scenario is not so hypothetical these days: A fatal shooting two miles away from its RISKWORLD meeting in Atlanta on May 3 spurred quick action from RIMS, The Risk Management Society, in canceling… Read More