By Zan Lewarn Dean Hassall, CVE, has been named as new International Instructor at IAVM’s Venue Management School. Hassall, a highly regarded Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) Limited school instructor for the past 18 years, and a past long-term VMA board member, w

By R.V. Baugus With your permission, please allow me if only for a minute to play the seasonal role of the Grinch with regards to the following: According to a study by Bizzabo, the world’s leading event success platform, almost two-thirds of all event speakers are male. Bah, hu

By Elisa “Putt” Putman The Music City Center had the privilege of hosting Mark Herrera, Director of Education for the International Association of Venue Managers on Dec. 11 to discuss situational awareness and crisis management to its entire team as well local law enforcem

By Rita de la Fuente On Monday, November 11, we hosted IAVM’s Mark Herrera for a security training. This was a free training for our staff and we invited other venues around our region to send members of their team to spread the knowledge beyond our building. We even ran the tra

By R.V. Baugus While lounging on the sofa the other night watching an NFL game while at the same time nursing a cough that doubled as a bullhorn and sent the wife and dogs scurrying for cover every time I unleashed a booming salvo, I watched a play unfold that happens over and over ag