APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Task Force update

The Events Industry Council recently released the Meeting and Event Design Accepted Practices Guide. It is intended to serve as a resource and educational tool for industry professionals to utilise as we put the curated resources and materials into practice.

This guidance also is intended to be global in nature. The work will continue to evolve through regional workshops led by task force members to ensure it is either applicable or customised to each region.

To rebuild trust that in-person meetings and events can happen safely, the guide provides these customisable tools:

• A meeting and event decision grid
• Guidelines and a code of conduct for pre-event, post-event and onsite
• Meeting and event success metrics (pre- and post-vaccine)
• Attendee communication considerations
• Resource guide

The Accepted Practices Guide includes a code of conduct meant to serve as a tool for event organisers to engage all meeting participants in the health and safety of our events. The code of conduct is available for download here.

The APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Task Force is led by co-chairs Michael Dominguez, president and CEO, Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI), and Kristin Horstman, Senior Director, Strategic Events, Salesforce. With representation from across the many sectors and regions of the global events ecosystem, the APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Task Force provides a voice in planning, preparing and participating in our recovery and our future as well as helping to amplify our story of economic and social impact as advocates for our industry.

EIC will release additional deliverables via social media channels, webinars and the EIC website. If you’d like to follow our activity on social, please connect with @Events_Council on Twitter (#APEXTaskForce), and Events Industry Council on Facebook and LinkedIn.