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Embracing the Digital Opportunity

PCMA Convene

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms. For MGMA’s Medical Practices Excellence Conference, scheduled for Oct.

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Phoenix, Just What the Doctor Ordered

MeetingsNet

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. 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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Q&A with Tori Barnes on Advocating for Bold Action

SmartMeetings

automakers—and GM specifically—during the 2009 financial crisis. Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. I’ve been blessed to have learned from some of the best in the business. What needs to happen to preserve the industry?

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A Breakout Room of One’s Own

PCMA Convene

When the Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) bought land adjacent to its Las Vegas headquarters about 10 years ago, the purchase was regarded as an investment. And meetings are still the primary way to do that. Which is why WVC isn’t the only such group building its own conference space. . Oquendo Center in Las Vegas.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

Part of SPN’s model involved live events, as well as the idea for a seminal annual conference that would connect Midwest entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and each other. “[SPN] SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6. The format was a success.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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. Navy and U.S.

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