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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Breakthroughs in health care that sounded like science fiction just a few years ago are rapidly becoming reality — and can be expected to have an impact on medical meetings. Eventually the technology will be used to manufacture everything from organs to medicine to medical equipment.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Frequently in the news amid unfolding at-sea rescues of African immigrants trying to reach Europe, this Sicilian island has been the focus of several documentaries on Europe’s refugee crisis, one that aired in June on cable television station HBO, and an award-winning 2016 Italian documentary, “Fire at Sea.” Making a Connection.

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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. Beyond providing inspiration, Big Omaha — whose 2016 sponsors included Yahoo!,

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

This article was penned prior to the 2016 election. This will cause more private practices to consider partnering or seeking employment with hospital systems or networks. Helping your members navigate their business and succession planning will become a pressing and ongoing need. Uncertain Times.

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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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Cvent: Event Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When choosing the events to attend, HCPs are looking to stay up to date on the latest trends for their specialties, meet with experts or key opinion leaders, and network with colleagues. A majority of HCPs want to contribute to the meeting agenda; 39% have never been asked to contribute and only 15% do so currently.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

But what began as a mere elbow-room expansion became a bona-fide conference facility of its own in 2009—the Oquendo Center, with nearly 70,000 square feet of meeting space, with the capacity to train up to 250 veterinarians at once. But medical and scientific organizations often push their boundaries beyond current models. PROFIT MOTIVE.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

FACE TO FACE “We have built a great deal of what I would call coffee time into the meeting,” Gold said. 2017 Medical Innovation Summit. 2016 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Convention Center for Susan Bernat of Innovations. It’s more the interaction where there’s power.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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.”. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense.

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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? . As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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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?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

The firm was founded in 2016 by Allie Mahler, who, along with partner Scott Weiss, had previously worked at IDEO, the well-known global design firm based in Palo Alto, California. The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) is a registered trademark of the Events Industry Council.

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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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