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Best in Show: Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Nominated by Alison Milgram, CMP, DES, Senior Events Manager, PCMA, which held PCMA Education Conference 2017 at the New York Marriott Marquis — “It was a little after 10:30 p.m.on Her calm and sweet demeanor makes her a pleasure to be around on those long days on site. Conference Services Manager, Westin Cleveland Downtown.

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28th Annual Meetings Market Survey: Slower Growth Ahead

PCMA Convene

Sacks emphasized that the report did not make a direct correlation between the decline in international tourists and international conference attendees traveling to the U.S., destinations vs. nearly 8 percent in 2017. 2018 attendance vs. 2017 attendance — +5 percent compared to +3.6 percent in the 2017 survey.

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More Associations Are Sounding the Climate Alarm

PCMA Convene

This isn’t the first time that the Lung Association has raised its voice about the climate crisis — the association first issued a climate change declaration in 2017 — but the updated call for action focuses on “addressing the inequities with climate change,” Bender said. “We “But for organizations like ours, this is all about health.”.

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2018 40 Under 40: Jim Clapes

Connect Your Meetings

Jim Clapes, 37, works in New York City as conference and events manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. What I do: I am directly responsible for the planning and management of the biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference, annual staff Retreat and 20 to 30 additional organizational events throughout the year.

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Health-Care Event Planners Adapt to a Shifting Landscape

SmartMeetings

government in early 2017 are still being argued in the courts. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years. For instance, the enhanced restrictions on foreign visitors instituted by the U.S.

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The Cost of Conscience

PCMA Convene

A Bold Decision ACA (American Counseling Association) Annual Convention & Exposition in San Francisco, California, Sunday, March 19, 2017. It was March 31, 2016, and ACA’s Governing Council was meeting in Montreal as part of ACA’s 2016 Conference & Expo. ACA moved the 2017 Conference & Expo.

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Travel bans hurt meetings & progress

Plan Your Meetings

The following originally appeared in The Meeting Professional , March 2017. based conferences is a new thing, please take a trip with us back to the waning years of President Ronald Reagan’s administration. policy toward HIV-positive people (the revised disease list remained in debate), the Boston conference would not take place.

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