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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

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. cities (KPMG, 2016).

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ASM Microbe Makes Its Debut

PCMA Convene

The goal for ASM Microbe 2016 was 10,000 to 12,000 attendees, drawn as evenly as possible from the General Meeting and ICAAC communities. We really do have a very, very diverse constituency, and the challenge of any annual meeting is trying to be all things to all people.”. OPENING KEYNOTE: Meet Bill Gates.

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A Breakout Room of One’s Own

PCMA Convene

In 2016, the center hosted 3,500 people in 80 medical labs—including rentals to groups working in human medicine. With staff based here, it’s easy for more of them to engage in these face-to-face meetings.” . How steep can that learning curve be when you own and operate your own venue? There is no model for this.”.

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The Right Prescription for HCPs to Attend Medical Meetings

Cvent: Event Marketing

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. HCP Expectations.

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

PCMA Convene

Beyond providing inspiration, Big Omaha — whose 2016 sponsors included Yahoo!, Seventy years later, the wood-paneled space is both a tourist site and an active courtroom, but also plays an outsized symbolic role in Nuremberg’s reputation as a venue for social-justice-related meetings and events.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

wrote in a 2016 article for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science, that he experienced “the thrill of being asked to present at a conference in a far-flung land. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. In fact, a veteran U.S.-based

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

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. I was both electrified and a little stunned by what I learned — who knew that nearly half of the hospitals in Rwanda receive medical supplies by drone?

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