Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Elizabeth Burks.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Bright Ideas Events in Vancouver, British Columbia What I love about my job: There are so many that the list is endless. I love producing a variety of different events with different themes. I love creating an actual event out of one of my ideas. Job title: CEO and president. in Vancouver, Washington.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Bright Ideas Events in Vancouver, British Columbia What I love about my job: There are so many that the list is endless. I love producing a variety of different events with different themes. I love creating an actual event out of one of my ideas. Job title: CEO and president. in Vancouver, Washington.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

“Our attendees are cancer nurses,” said Jen Krause, the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) director of national conferences and meetings. They’re administering medication that can truly be life-or-death. It’s a problem in the medical profession.”. So where do annual meetings fit in among all that stress and burnout?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 17, 2017

Forward March This past June, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) rallied at Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC) for their 2017 Biennial Convention. It launched in early 2017 and was operational in time for CFNU’s Biennial Convention , held at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC), June 5-9. .

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

While this scenario tragically plays out all too often in real life around the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the emergency situation has been re-enacted at a simulation during a medical event — the SIAARTI (Italian Society for Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care) Academy — that has taken place there for the past two years.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Instead they were in the level of involvement by patients, who told their personal stories on stage and around the table during meals and who took part in brainstorming health-care solutions and in presenting new technologies, she wrote in a blog post after the event. At the Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

It’s a fundamental technique of microbiology, and also the animating principle behind ASM Microbe, the brand-new annual conference that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) built from strands of two other annual conferences: its General Meeting and its Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

She was making preparations for the organization’s flagship event, ESC Congress, to be held in Barcelona the following week, Aug. That evening, ESC’s leadership consulted on the phone and quickly determined to go ahead with ESC Congress 2017. — Shelley Wood (@ShelleyWood2) August 18, 2017. On the afternoon of Aug.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

CED LSC 2017, Credit CED. Let these four events show you. 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. ORGANIZER The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which uses the conference as part of its strategic-planning cycle. 2017 Medical Innovation Summit. April 19, Hilton Omaha.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For its 2017 International Convention in San Diego on June 19–22, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) partnered with Yelp, the online review site, to produce a guidebook on the city’s top options for food, drinks, and diversions. The BIO 2017 Yelp Guidebook was primarily a print project, but it was also distributed online.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This is our fourth class,” said PCMA President and CEO Deborah Sexton, “and with each one, we are struck by the passion and insights these individuals bring to the business-events community. Derek Anderson.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries. Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . And finally, will the wellness trend translate to a more relaxed and personal standard for dress at events? . Diversifying the Stage. David McMillin, Editor . From Congrats!

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But most events were chock full of boring speeches delivered in front of bullet-point-filled PowerPoints, sounding and feeling the same as talks 20 years ago.”. . &

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

In her role as the executive director of the Impact Travel Alliance (ITA), a nonprofit organization linking global travel professionals with world-changing ambitions, Kelley Louise oversees a network that hosts approximately 20 educational events around the world each year, including ITA’s flagship Travel + SocialGood Summit.

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