Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Will our submission process yield the highest quality sessions or will we need to invite speakers who we know can address our learning priorities? High-quality learning is worthy of investing time and money. Submissions or curation? Tip: Conference organizers are increasingly embracing a combination of curation and submission.

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Conference Healthcare 2016 Education 150

PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. rst draft of a “Patients Included” charter, now used to set standards for patient involvement at meetings.

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Medical Meetings Meetings 2001 Conference 72

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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2016 2017 Conference Speakers 73

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Chang will offer a Thought Leader session at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 in January. I’m married to a physician, and she goes to traditional medical meetings.

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Medical Meetings 2015 Fashion Technology 40

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

CED LSC 2017, Credit CED. 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. ORGANIZER The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which uses the conference as part of its strategic-planning cycle. FACE TO FACE “We have built a great deal of what I would call coffee time into the meeting,” Gold said. April 19, Hilton Omaha.

Conference 40

Conference 2017 2016 Technology 40

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 As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions.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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2017 Education Hospitality Meetings 69

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. 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.”. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Senthil Gopinath.

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Conference Medical Meetings Education 2017 94

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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2018 2001 Tourism 2017 101

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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