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Full Event Video
Watch here for the entire recording of Reconvening for Recovery, including education sessions and valuable insight from top meetings industry experts. Click here to view the video's timestamps, to help navigate the content.
Click here for the video timestamp guide to navigate through sessions you're most interested in.
Speaker Sessions
Below is a list of speakers along with timestamps to find the speaker in the above video. Some speakers made their slides available as well.
- 0:00-8:00 Welcome, Event "Housekeeping" — David Blansfield, Executive Vice President, Northstar Meetings Group
- 8:00 – 16:20 Mohegan Sun Overview: Welcome, How Pandemic Response Has Been Made Manifest at Mohegan Sun — Jeff Hamilton, President and General Manager, Mohegan Sun
- 16:20 - 32:00 How Meetings Suppliers Can Help Planners Visualize and Plan Events — Safely and Effectively — John Washko, VP, Expo & Convention Sales, Mohegan Sun
- 32:00 – 56:00 How to Facilitate the New Normal for Hybrid Events, including live and virtual Q&A — Hope Holm, Regional Sales Director, PSAV ( Download presentation slides)
- 56:00 – 1:07:30 Camille Schrier, Miss America, 2020, interviews Angela Cox, Senior Director, Meetings & Events, Northstar Meetings Group, and Dana Lambersky, Director of Convention Services, Mohegan Sun, on how they planned the event.
- 1:07:30 – 1:37:00 Virtual Panel Discussion: Meeting Design Now — Elizabeth Warwick, Vice President, Meeting Management and Event Strategy, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group; and Allison Kinsley, CMM, CMP, CED, Chief Meeting Architect, Kinsley Meetings; Amy Calvert, President and CEO, Events Industry Council Business Recovery Task Force; Mike Dominguez, President & CEO, Associated Luxury Hotels International
- 1:37:00 – 1:59:49 Essential Considerations for Safely Reopening Exhibitions and Event — David Dubois, President and CEO, International Association of Exhibitions and Events (Download presentation slides)
- 2:00:00 – 2:07:40 Camille Schrier, Miss America 2020, discusses her experiences and perspectives as a meeting attendee
- 2:07:40 – 2:26:15 Breaking Free: How to Release the Chains of Covid to Move You, Your Career, and the Industry Forward — Heather Hansen O'Neill, President, Find Your Fire (Download presentation slides)
- 2:26:15 – 2:47:11 Sports Event 'Bubbles' Case Study: Bellator MMA and Showtime Championship Boxing — Michael Mazzulli, Director of the Mohegan Tribe Athletic Department; Mike Kogan, Bellator MMA (Download presentation slides)
- 2:53:01 – 3:01:33 Expo Center as Learning Village — John Washko, VP, Expo & Convention Sales, Mohegan Sun
- 3:01:33 – 3:05:38 Maui Jim Sunglasses Sponsor Message
- 3:05:38 – 3:29:15 Remaking Your Business, Changing Perception and Culture Within a 100 year Organization: Miss America as Case Study — Camille Schrier,
Miss America 2020
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Safe Meetings Toolkit
Forms, pamphlets, information and visual tools that you can implement at your future in-person and hybrid meetings to better ensure the safety and surety of all parties and participants involved.
SAFE MEETING SETUP
- Code of Conduct that can be adapted to your future programs.
- Safe Meetings Setup: Review the diagrams and floor plans used at Reconvening for Recovery; each which takes physical distancing, safety protocols and capacity caps into consideration.
- Liability Waiver that can be shared with hotel and venue partners, etc.
- Large Meetings Roadmap: A roadmap, including diagrams, for groups of up to 1,000 attendees and how they can operate with social distancing measures in place.
- Event Signage: Northstar equipped the event venue with safety signage (e.g. physical distance markings). Review and implement similar messages at your future meetings.
- Modern Menus: What does event f&b look like in the era of COVID-19? Review the menu from Reconvening for Recovery.
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Image Gallery
Below, view an entire gallery of images that show and tell how we safely and successfully held Reconvening for Recovery at Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Mystic Country, CT. The gallery includes images displaying:
- Event signage regarding masks, physical distancing and sanitizing; along with where and how signage was posted throughout the venue.
- A visual of table spacing and seating arrangements during the event reception, education sessions, breakfast and lunch.
- A look at safe food service, preparation and presentation; including how F&B options were presented.
- Event production set-up carried out by our partner PSAV (live streaming cameras, production table, etc.)
- Plexiglass trade show booth setup and how you can equip your future programs with the proper safety measures in place.
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Full Event Video
Access an on-demand recording of the entire Reconvening for Recovery event, including the following education sessions and valuable insight from top meetings industry experts.
- HYBRID EVENT FACILITATION: A how-to discussion featuring Hope Holm, regional sales director, PSAV.
- NEW IMPERATIVES FOR MEETINGS: A panel discussion with Amy Calvert of the EIC; Liz Warwick of Liberty Mutual; Alison Kinsley of Kinsley Meetings; and Michael Dominguez of ALHI.
- PLAN FUTURE EVENTS EFFECTIVELY: John Washko, VP, expo and convention sales, Mohegan Sun, details how suppliers can best support planners during this time to plan successful, future events.
- THE NEW LOGISTICS OF HYBRID EVENTS and how to successfully plan and carry one out: featuring Northstar's Angela Cox.
- THE IN-PERSON EXPERIENCE: A walk-through of what attending an in-person meeting looks like today, led by Miss America 2020 Camille Schrier.
- BLENDING IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL EVENTS: Tips for engaging a live and virtual audience simultaneously.
- ESSENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE RETURN OF EXHIBITIONS: A discussion on safely reopening exhibitions featuring David Dubois, president and CEO, International Association of Exhibitions and Events.
- WELLNESS: Wellbeing and healthy mindset tips and tricks with Heather Hansen O'Neill of Find Your Fire.
Safe Meetings Toolkit
Access a suite of forms, pamphlets, information and visual tools that you can implement at your future in-person and hybrid meetings to better ensure the safety and surety of all parties and participants involved.
- PRESENTATION SLIDES: This library of slides is filled with tools and tips on producing an in-person event with digital components.
- SAFE MEETING SETUP: Review the diagrams and floor plans used at Reconvening for Recovery; each which takes social distancing, safety protocols and capacity caps into consideration.
- LIABILITY WAIVER to share with hotel and venue partners, etc.
- CODE OF CONDUCT that can be adapted to your future programs.
- MODERN MENU: What does event f&b look like in the era of COVID-19? Review the menu from Reconvening for Recovery.
- EVENT SIGNAGE: Northstar equipped the event venue with safety signage (e.g. social distance markings). Review and implement similar messages at your future meetings.
- LARGE MEETINGS ROADMAP: A roadmap, including diagrams, for groups of up to 1,000 attendees and how they can operate with social distancing measures in place.
Image Gallery
Access an entire gallery of images that show and tell how we safely and successfully held Reconvening for Recovery at Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Mystic Country, Conn. The gallery includes images displaying:
- Event signage regarding masks, social distancing and sanitizing; along with where signage was posted throughout the venue.
- A visual of table spacing and seating arrangements during the event reception, education sessions, breakfast and lunch.
- A look at safe food service, preparation and presentation; including how Reconvening for Recovery's meals were presented (e.g. with shields) and food servers handled the production and serving of all meals.
- Event production set up carried out by our partner PSAV (live streaming cameras, production table, etc.
- Plexiglass trade show booth setup and how you can equip your future programs with the proper safety measures in place.
All of the resources necessary for moving forward with your own events can be found within the Recovery Resource Center. All of the insight and firsthand experience that goes along with safely and effectively producing a blended in-person and virtual event can be found here.
Access the premier meetings industry Recovery Resource Center and take advantage of its assets as you begin planning future programs.
