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DO MEETING PLANNERS SLOW DOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Master the Event

I’ve been in the conference and convention planning business for well over 20 years (that’s a whole other story). Many of my friends assume that meeting planners and industry suppliers have a lot of down time over the holidays. Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)’s annual conference is held in January.

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

SpotMe Blog

Partnering with top medical communications companies is an important step toward ensuring that your next medical conference or event is a success. Key services medical communications companies offer When it comes to medical event planning, you want to ensure you’re selecting the best MedComms agency for the job. Get our ultimate list.

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Try Going Back to School for Your Next Meeting

SmartMeetings

More universities than ever are including conference hotels on their grounds to accommodate meetings of the mind in academic settings. Check out some of these properties and the opportunities they represent for creating smarter meetings. of meeting space, including J. Notre Dame Conference Center houses 20,000 sq.

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ASL Interpreters Provide Important Service at Meetings

SmartMeetings

Meeting professionals are tasked with making sure the audio of presentations is clear , that there’s no feedback and that it is at a comfortable volume—but what about the attendees who live in silence? The child was ecstatic after meeting the characters because he didn’t know they would speak ‘his language,’” a rep for the group told KABC-TV.

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San Jose Lures Major Meetings, Events, Including Apple’s WWDC

SmartMeetings

From June 5 to 9, Apple triumphantly returned its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to San Jose, where it hosted the inaugural event in 2002. Our convention center underwent a major expansion in 2013, creating a new grand ballroom with an additional 35,000 sq. For the last 15 years, it was held in San Francisco.

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Risk360: On-Site Safety

MeetingsNet

It is no secret that meeting planning is a stressful job and that no matter how much preparation happens before an event, once on site planners are still deluged with questions and last-minute issues. But during MeetingsNet’s Risk360 conference on risk management, it became clear that safety has to remain a priority.

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Health-Care Event Planners Adapt to a Shifting Landscape

SmartMeetings

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.