GMC PCMA Spring Educational Program

Join GMC PCMA for our Spring Educational Program where speaker, Kevin Coffey, will help us devise a plan to safeguard our attendees, clients, customers and organization’s security and safety with his presentation, “Travel Risk Reduction: A Guide for Meeting Professionals and Suppliers to Understanding, Avoiding, and Responding to Travel Security Risk Issues”.

Schedule:
12:30 – 2:00pm | Registration and Networking
1:00 – 2:00pm   |  Committee Meetings
2:00 – 2:30pm   |  Welcome by President; Committee Updates
2:30 – 4:00pm   |  Educational Session
4:00 – 5:30pm   |  Reception

About our Educational Session:
Most meeting professionals find out about security or safety issues after it’s too late. Laptop and projector thefts, meeting or hotel room thefts, meeting attendees choking on food or suffering a medical emergency during an event are all real, everyday events that greatly impact your attendees, clients, customers, as well as your organization’s reputation. As a meeting professional, what steps have you taken to safeguard against these issues? What “reasonable” steps are you taking to protect your client’s safety and security during a meeting or event?

In Kevin Coffey’s presentation, “Travel Risk Reduction: A Guide for Meeting Professionals and Suppliers to Understanding, Avoiding, and Responding to Travel Security Risk Issues,” you’ll learn what steps and precautions you need to take to ensure you are covering the basics for emergency plans during your meeting or event.

About our speaker:
Detective Kevin Coffey, aka “The Scholar of Thievery”

When it comes to educating the travel and meeting professionals on risk reduction techniques, Detective Coffey is internationally known as a speaker, author, and risk reduction expert. His expertise in unique, as he has over 35 years of real-life, street crime experience as a Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He has personally investigated thousands of crimes, including those involving violence, robbery, burglary, theft, identity theft, and is a court qualified expert on several subjects within the crime spectrum.

In 1991, he founded the LAPD’s Airport Crimes Investigations Detail where he investigated crimes committed against travelers while they passed through the Los Angeles International Airport. Additionally, he was responsible for the investigation of crimes committed at hotels and meeting venues where guests and meeting attendees had fallen victim to crime and unfortunate events. This unique and specialized investigative assignment resulted in a first-hand expertise in the anticipation, recognition, and prevention of crimes committed against travelers, as well as within the travel and meeting industry.

As a result of this experience, he has been sharing his travel, meeting, and street crime counter-measures with over 50,000 employees of Fortune 2 to 500 companies, as well as countless travel and meeting managers, planners, and suppliers around the globe.

Detective Coffey has appeared on many television shows including ABC’s 20/20,
The Today Show, The Travel Channel, Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, several appearances on Oprah, as well as numerous other TV programs and print publications.

However, the appearance he’s most proud when he was selected to play the role of an LAPD Detective in the movie “Heat” with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

He is the author of Travel Beware, an Undercover Cop’s Guide to Avoiding Travel Crime, as well as Lies, Cons, and Stolen Briefcases.

Detective Coffey is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Southern California, where he instructs at the Safe Communities Institute. He resides in Calabasas, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

This event has been approved for 1.50 CE credit and is Presented by PCMA Greater Midwest Chapter, a CMP Preferred Provider.