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Leaving a Life-Saving Legacy Behind

PCMA Convene

In 2011 in Dubai, for example, the IDF partnered with 100 leading figures from the public and private sectors to convene a Global Diabetes Forum. The result, the “Dubai Blueprint,” included a set of practical recommendations that boosted local efforts in diabetes treatment and prevention in the UAE, Renner said.

2011 40
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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

In 2011, The Next Web called Big Omaha “the most important conference you’ve never attended.” 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. 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. You Look Very Silly’.

2012 56