SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

But what began as a mere elbow-room expansion became a bona-fide conference facility of its own in 2009—the Oquendo Center, with nearly 70,000 square feet of meeting space, with the capacity to train up to 250 veterinarians at once. Try to create as many vertical markets as possible,” Little said. Oquendo Center in Las Vegas. “We

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The

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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. Blow Up Your F&B.

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