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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

2013 Housing. Respondents reported that, on average, food and beverage remains their single-largest expense, accounting for 29 percent of their costs at their largest 2017 event. TOP OUTSOURCED ITEM, 2007–2017. 2007 Event-supply rentals. 2008 Event-supply rentals. 2009 Event-supply rentals. 2012 Registration.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Heart Attack on a Plate.

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