THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2020
10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. CT

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Session I: Online & Hybrid Event Strategies
Featuring: Kelly Massey - Grit Productions & Expositions Executive Producer & President
Theresa Duncan - Senior Manager of Corporate Events, Kubota Tractor Company

Join Kelly Massey, Grit Production & Expositions Executive Producer & President, and Theresa Duncan, Senior Manager of Corporate Events at Kubota Tractor Corporation, for a thought-provoking discussion on fully virtual events and taking the next steps into a hybrid event. Theresa and Kelly will discuss a hybrid event produced in Grapevine, Texas and the best practices for a safe in-person event. 

Learning Objectives
•  Identifying the complexities of fully virtual events
•  Engaging online and in-person audiences simultaneously
•  Create safe and sustaining in-person events
 

Session II: 2 Guys Doing "Good"- Cause Business: 10 Tactics to Guarantee Virtual Teambuilding Won't Suck!
Featuring: Rowan Pickering Owner/CEO with Event Team Inc.
Steven Foster, CMP with Foster+Fathom - 2 Guys Doing "Good"

Join Rowan Pickering, Owner/CEO with Event Team Inc., and Steven G. Foster, CMP with Foster+Fathom - 2 Guys Doing "Good” - as they take a humorous, but practical look at the challenges and solutions to producing virtual teambuilding activities. For years, Rowan and Steven have been helping meeting and event professionals create purposeful engagement and demonstrate value by giving back to the communities where they live, work, and meet through what they call “Cause Business.”  And at this moment, when there is so much business we can't control, becoming meaningfully productive can help you navigate the disruption and weather the storm.

Learning Objectives
•    Identify “Goodness Give-Back” Programs to impact and enhance virtual and hybrid events
•    Learn 10 Tactics to develop virtual teambuilding strategies that make Good Business Sense 
•    Replace cookie-cutter virtual games with ACTUAL participant interaction (“Live Escape Room”)

Session III: Event and Force Majeure and Your Meeting Contracts: Understanding the Force Majeure Clause, When it Applies and What it Should Say Going Forward
Featuring: John Foster, ESQ. CHME, Industry Legal Expert

Coronavirus is the number one topic in the meetings and travel industries right now. If your meeting is scheduled to occur in the next few months, this webinar will discuss what your options are in making a Go or No-Go decision and how to interpret your contracts regarding liability. It will also cover how to prepare future contracts and the four legal standards to include to protect meeting sponsors from not only epidemics and diseases, but other disasters as well. Will insurance save the day? Come find out.
Industry legal expert John Foster, Esq., CHME will present this topic and answer your questions at the end.

Issues addressed:
• Define when Coronavirus, or any other calamity, is a Force majeure
• Understand how Force Majeure clauses are interpreted and the role of “foreseeability” when preparing the clauses
• Define the meaning of Impossibility, Illegality, Commercial Impracticability, and Frustration of Purpose and how contract law applies these terms

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