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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

We are preparing for fewer European attendees as a result of new European regulations restricting the sponsorship of physicians to attend conferences in the U.S. I am finding it difficult to find venues that meet our needs and stay within budget. I feel that I am being pushed out into less desirable locations/hotels.”.

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Convene’s 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Average: 6,384 Respondents employed in the corporate world are most likely to work for a technology firm (33 percent) followed by a pharmaceutical/medical/medical-device firm (27 percent). Number of Meetings Planned. Thirty-six percent comes from conventions, exhibits, and meetings (about the same as the 2015 survey).

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