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Three days after corporate, association, and third-party meeting planners with expertise in global programs got together for the Beyond Borders Summit at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York, a Malaysia Airlines was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. It points up one of a planner’s most vexing challenges—and one of the hottest topics of the BB Summit: risk management. With so many geopolitical hotspots in the world, the conferees at the second annual summit agreed, site inspections are a must, as is continual monitoring of government travel warnings and advisories.

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