PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

Life Sciences and Health Care — The 650-acre Lake Nona Medical City is making a name for itself as the home of innovation within the biotechnology and life-sciences industries, with a collection of state-of-the-art health-care, research, and medical-training facilities. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona. 1 in the U.S.

Medical Meetings 55

Medical Meetings Healthcare 2016 2015 55

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.

Meetings 74

Meetings 2015 2009 2008 74

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.

Conference 94

Conference Medical Meetings Education 2017 94

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.

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 Hotels 56

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. truly is home.

2017 69

2017 Education Hospitality Meetings 69