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Scleroderma Congress Innovates to Emphasize Patient Participation

PCMA Convene

That is, until 2010, when the World Scleroderma Foundation (WSF), a Switzerland-based nonprofit, and AIM Group International, its professional congress organizer (PCO), joined forces to launch the first international congress solely dedicated to scleroderma, the Systemic Sclerosis World Congress (SSWC). Public Domain). Virtue of Patients.

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Scleroderma Congress Innovates to Emphasize Patient Participation

PCMA Convene

That is, until 2010, when the World Scleroderma Foundation (WSF), a Switzerland-based nonprofit, and AIM Group International, its professional congress organizer (PCO), joined forces to launch the first international congress solely dedicated to scleroderma, the Systemic Sclerosis World Congress (SSWC). Public Domain). Virtue of Patients.

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

PCMA Convene

In 2010, the conference moved to KANEKO, a downtown Omaha art gallery whose airy, minimalist space fit Big Omaha’s brand perfectly. From the get-go, Big Omaha was designed around a one-track keynote session, with no exhibitor booths or breakout sessions but an extra-long networking lunch break featuring healthy and imaginative food options.

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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.

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