In 2022, at a private event in Las Vegas during “hacker summer camp,” as the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences have come to be...

Taken from this MeetingsNet article. Event safety and security deserves to be a top priority for meeting professionals. However, a recent...

“Humans in general are complacent,” says Alan Kleinfeld, former law enforcement officer and director of Arrive Conference Solutions, a...

From an article in MeetingsNet.com. When asked recently why more planners don’t take safety and security more seriously, one planner...

My mantra for meeting planners for the last couple years has been wear masks, wash hands, and watch distance. And like so many of us, I...

IMEX America returned in 2021 after a COVID-19 (C19) spoiled absence last year. If you didn’t make it this year, here’s a little of what...

Not long ago a client phones me and says, “Alan, the news is reporting the airport is closed due to protesters. It looks like the entire...

We’re all too familiar with the things we think of when we think of COVID-19 (C19). We’re reminded of masks and politics (regrettably)...

During some of the last 18 months, I have been able to travel, plan face-2-face conferences and help keep attendees safe and secure. I...

Often times I’m called a pessimistic planner. That’s not true. I’m just a realist. I wish it was sexy and fun being a planner who’s...

On a recent PCMA chapter Zoom event, talked turned to COVID-19 (C19) and would we return to a sense of “normal.” The concerns are valid....

Did you ever have those days in college when you were so tired from cramming or partying or studying that you’d wake in the morning and...

I have been called a Debbie Downer, a party pooper and worse when I say the COVID-19 (C19) vaccines won’t be the Wonder Woman of the...

*Download a PDF version of this article, with sidebars & photos, at the bottom of this article. The email I got was simple and brief. The...

Remember before C19 and how easy our meetings seemed? This is a pre-COVID article on choosing a safe venue, published in The Meeting...

You might have seen a “new” term in reference to COVID-19 (C19): Biosafety. The word might be a nice catch phrase, but including...

Originally published by Plan Your Meetings, this article includes an interview by Arrive Management. In September 2001, Alan Kleinfeld...

The other day a colleague and I were sitting outside at a non-Starbucks coffee shop. We hadn’t seen each other face to face for some time...

Convene Magazine's interview with Arrive for PCMA. Alan Kleinfeld, CMP, CMM, LEO, MTA, currently works as the director of Charleston,...

From an interview with The Meeting Professional, Sept., 2018. With decades of experience in both law enforcement and meeting management,...