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Medical Meetings Propel Philadelphia Tourism

SmartMeetings

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown from Jan. A direct beneficiary of this activity has been the medical meetings industry , helping propel hospitality and tourism to Philadelphia’s third largest industry. Click for more details.

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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

“And if they’re writing scripts, we don’t necessarily know whether it was because of our conference or another conference or direct-to-consumer advertising.”. Orders for medical devices are no easier to trace, considering the lengthy purchasing timelines for costly equipment. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Louisville and More

Smart Meetings

Before Choose Chicago, Anderson was regional director of marketing for The Peninsula Hotels. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Before joining TMG, Diamond worked as medical meetings project manager for MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. Darryl Diamond, CMP. Talley Management Group (TMG), Inc., Ellen LaMaire.

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4 Medical Conferences That Put Innovation First

PCMA Convene

Especially in medicine and health care, maybe the most incremental yet desperate-to-change-the-world field of all — how would you build a conference specifically dedicated to groundbreaking, trailblazing, lifesaving innovations? 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. Wellness Panel at the Breakthrough Thinking Conference.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference?

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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A Breakout Room of One’s Own

PCMA Convene

When the Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) bought land adjacent to its Las Vegas headquarters about 10 years ago, the purchase was regarded as an investment. In 2016, the center hosted 3,500 people in 80 medical labs—including rentals to groups working in human medicine. And meetings are still the primary way to do that.

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