Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Hotels are not as flexible as in the past and can truly demand a higher spend for better space/rooms offerings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

She later moved on to a role with Chicago Marriott Hotel on Michigan Avenue, then ventured into the association space as exhibition manager at the American Dietetic Association (ADA), known today as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. Hotels and resorts bask in near-perpetual sunshine. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. May 8–11, 2019 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. 3,000 attendees. The session will be fun and we will all learn together.” “Fun”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer. “We

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attendees included representatives from Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, AccorHotels, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Choice Hotels International, Freeman, Host Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Universal Parks & Resorts.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

She brings more than 30 years of experience in the meeting, trade show, and hotel industries to the table, with expertise in strategic meetings management and the healthcare sector. Michal Skalski is an account manager at Creative Group, planning medical meetings, advisory boards and incentive travel programs.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

And one panelist offered a note of hope, saying that she had flown on all four major airlines in the past 30 days and stayed in numerous hotels, and her experiences had demonstrated that the travel and hospitality industry are taking the necessary steps to keep the public safe. Michelle Russell is editor in chief of Convene.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

How I got here: When our youngest went off to college, I was approached by the Baylor College of Medicine to manage medical meetings for various departments. After seven years, I left to start my own independent meeting planning company in 1986, which was rare at that time.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2020

Many meeting planners and are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. Work with hotel or venue to define their guidelines. Plan Like an EMT. Determine the local public health requirements that need to be implemented. Check for updates from local public health resources frequently.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 9, 2020

How will meeting professionals address risk post-COVID-19? When Coffey asks hotel sales professionals why they haven’t addressed risk, they often say because the client hasn’t asked any of these questions, and if they’re not concerned about it, then they don’t address it. If you’re a CMP, you’ve been trained on it.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetings … medical meetings have been the most skittish,” Heard said. There’s the sentiment that seems to be out there among a lot of medical groups [that gathering in person is] sending the wrong message to the public.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. When businesses, hotels and meeting organizers are doing everything they can to ensure the safety of those who choose to attend, they should not be subject to lawsuits.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Since there isn’t “a real congress center on the island,” she said, AIM Group created one inside Lampedusa’s airport, equipping rooms with technology and furniture that will remain for future meeting use. SIAARTI’s maxi simulation also featured a serious traffic accident on land nearby.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. You go into a hotel and people have pre-thought everything that you could possibly need, and given you control of your experience. Design can take many forms.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. Hotels do it all the time. Between medical meetings and mega-computer trade shows, their collective experiences help a variety of businesses stage critical, and fun, events around the globe.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With outdoor dining and entertainment space Avenida Houston, major convention center renovations and hotel openings, Houston did its best to prepare to handle the influx of travelers. Marketing materials and CVB websites can never show the whole picture—you need to see it for yourself. Select entertainment wisely.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

If you trust the internet, you might expect to have a hard time finding a hotel room in Manchester this coming May. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. What can be done? In fact, a veteran U.S.-based In many cases, predatory conferences accept 100 percent of submissions.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Many meeting planners are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. Desi Whitney is president and co-founder of Emergency Concierge International (ECI), an all-hazards emergency planning company for meetings. . Work with hotel or venue to define its guidelines. •

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

Reed started his career in hotel sales, and that background, he said, has enabled him to look at the revenue component of ASH’s events through a different lens. In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 10, 2020

Don’t just agree with what the hotel proposes.” “Next to attrition and cancellation-performance clauses, force majeure clauses are the most contentious parts of a contract to negotiate,” he says. Both sides need to have realistic, comprehensive language that covers the realities of a post-coronavirus world.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hotel sourcing and research. No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Working with CVBs, hotel, convention-center staff.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Benchmark Hospitality International and Gemstone Hotels & Resorts have merged to become BENCHMARK, a global hospitality company with a new corporate identity and three distinct hotel collections. read more.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California; president of Casey’s Cupcakes. This personal investment outside of the hotel sparks creative ideas for guests and inspires ways to better connect with and take care of my staff. Kelly Roberts. Job title: Owner, vice chairman and chief operating officer.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. billion in hotel expenditures, $935 million in tax revenues and $124.1 million in hotel tax revenues. At the boutique hotel, groups can indulge in cosmopolitan dining at Moromito Waikiki.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

ASM Microbe was a big program — so big that it took up all of the BCEC, in Boston’s Seaport district, plus meeting space at three nearby hotels: the Westin Boston Waterfront, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, and the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center. You might even call it recombinant. Walking and Talking.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California; president of Casey’s Cupcakes. This personal investment outside of the hotel sparks creative ideas for guests and inspires ways to better connect with and take care of my staff. Kelly Roberts. Job title: Owner, vice chairman and chief operating officer.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2017

11–13, at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel in New Delhi, India. Sometimes conference themes are so aspirational that there’s no direct correlation between the message and the event programming. Not so with the 10th World Congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, held last Nov.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

From discussing health-care reform at medical meetings, to talking about privacy concerns at IT conferences, a business event can be the friendly playground where attendees discuss particularly controversial topics. No matter where you turn, unconscious bias is alive and well.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

And because pathologists are always either in basement offices or hotel conference rooms, we thought, if we’re going to do a resort destination like Palm Springs, it has to have light, and a view, and a sense of energy. You can see why people like working in a hotel environment so much—no two days are the same.” . .

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

More Innovative Meetings. Why More Medical Meetings Are Looking at Airport Hotels. For more about AIA Conference on Architecture, visit conferencearchitecture.com. Visa-Approval Hiccup forces Fifteen Seconds Festival to Improvise.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

I also would like to create and own my own brand of hotels. Kincaid Hotels has a nice ring to it, if I say so myself! Associate Manager, Meetings and Fellowships American Orthopaedic Association Rosemont, Illinois, USA. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. KATHY SINNEN, CMP.

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