PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? They fall across the spectrum.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

It’s a fundamental technique of microbiology, and also the animating principle behind ASM Microbe, the brand-new annual conference that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) built from strands of two other annual conferences: its General Meeting and its Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

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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PCMA Convene

MARCH 23, 2017

Not so long ago, Austin was the only major city in the United States without a medical school, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) was one of only a few tier-one research universities without one. That all changed in the summer of 2016, when UT’s Dell Medical School opened its doors to its first class of students.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Late one Thursday night last March, attendees at Microsoft’s 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco looked forward to unwinding after a full program. Our brains are hard-wired to favor certain categories of people while doubting others.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Derek Anderson.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Louise, who lives in Brooklyn, said she makes an effort to make this summit into “more than just your average travel conference.” At a lot of conferences, people may learn something new, she said, but they also end up in a lot of sessions that aren’t necessarily relevant.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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