PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Richmond fulfilled many of those requirements — and so IPAC15 met at the Richmond Convention Center on May 3–8, 2015. Since its inception, it was always held outside North America — until 2015, when Wilmington, North Carolina, was chosen to host BioMarine’s 300-plus attendees. Nuremberg is steeped in that history.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In 2015, Apple emailed Brouhard to open a dialogue. “People wrote things like, ‘Come on Apple, this is simple for you,’” Brouhard said, “and ‘It’s a no-brainer and you can change my husband’s life.’ That totally, totally came from the conference, which was great.”. POWERFULLY IN PERSON.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WHO ATTENDS UNMC invites nearly 300 people to the conference — leaders from across its academic medical community and the University of Nebraska, plus from other health-care institutions in the area, the nonprofit and business communities, the state legislature, and the governor’s office. About 200 attended this year.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

McCrostie told Convene that he sneaked into what he deemed a predatory conference at Tokyo’s Waseda University in 2015. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. In fact, a veteran U.S.-based In many cases, predatory conferences accept 100 percent of submissions.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Chicago will be featured in the December issue of Smart Meetings magazine. Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. In 2015, the city welcomed more than 52 million visitors, who generated $2.2 In 2015, 5.8 million in hotel tax revenues.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

I am proud to bring meeting planners to Grand Rapids to experience for themselves what a collaborative, innovative, thriving city we have in West Michigan! What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? The best day I’ve had in the meetings industry so far was in January 2015.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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. Globalizing Knowledge.

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