Learn how unconscious bias can have an impact on your organization's inclusiveness, and how to overcome it.

Whether you travel domestically, internationally, only a few times a year, or are a road warrior, you will leave this session knowing the insider tips from a traditional naturopath (natural health doctor) that spent 30+ years traveling around the world for IBM…and lived to tell the stories.

Senior ranking federal government officials, local government officials, leaders from academia and private industry, and family are all attending your next event! How do you prioritize them, how do you address them and how do you seat them?

Today’s high-profile hacks of major organizations and institutions have increased awareness of the issues of digital security, yet most people are compromising their personal and organizational information on a regular basis. This is true for your security, as well as your team and your meeting attendees. Participants at this session will better understand the digital risks, and learn to separate truth from the hype about how secure their presence is.

As event managers/planners we need to know the difference between risk management and emergency preparedness, and how to do both for the safety of our attendees. Do understand what the term "due diligence" means? Do you know what tools you have available to you to understand if the location is a risk or safe? What kind of emergency plans should you as the meeting planner have in place? This session will help you identify how to assess potential locations for risk management, emergency plans that every meeting planner should have in their files, and what to have in place in the event of an emergency.