SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

Bizzabo recently published a list of the top 60 event professionals to follow on Twitter based on their event coverage and overall digital presence—and we’re happy to see that lots of familiar faces within the Smart Meetings family made the list. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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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? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Derek Anderson.

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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The $22 billion contributed by the meetings industry to local, state and federal taxes each year is dependent on the free flow of travel. Those in attendance underscored the importance of international inbound travel as a way to reduce the trade deficit, create jobs ( the meetings industry supports 1.1 To make that point, U.S.

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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 if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.” . &

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Louise, who lives in Brooklyn, said she makes an effort to make this summit into “more than just your average travel conference.” At a lot of conferences, people may learn something new, she said, but they also end up in a lot of sessions that aren’t necessarily relevant.

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