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Health-Care Event Planners Adapt to a Shifting Landscape

SmartMeetings

health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years. Open Payments law enacted in 2013. “[But] For instance, the enhanced restrictions on foreign visitors instituted by the U.S. government in early 2017 are still being argued in the courts.

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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

She began her career at 1st Global in 2013 and previously held the position of event coordinator prior to her recent promotion. She plays an integral role for the company through event design and plan formulation, event oversight, vendor and venue contract negotiations and management, and site selection for meetings and event.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

So far, the closest that a convention center in the United States has come to a known terror attack is … pretty darn close: The Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 happened a few blocks from the John B. In the Convene survey, 24 percent of respondents said they take open-carry legislation into account when making site selections.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

So far, the closest that a convention center in the United States has come to a known terror attack is … pretty darn close: The Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 happened a few blocks from the John B. In the Convene survey, 24 percent of respondents said they take open-carry legislation into account when making site selections.