PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

The number of physicians who participated in 2018 was double the number of attendees at the first SIAARTI Academy on Lampedusa in 2017, which AIM Group also staged. In addition, the know-how and expertise the destination gained in hosting the two consecutive medical meetings will be useful in executing future events. “We

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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. Technology is a huge enabler on that front.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Instead they were in the level of involvement by patients, who told their personal stories on stage and around the table during meals and who took part in brainstorming health-care solutions and in presenting new technologies, she wrote in a blog post after the event. At the Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For its 2017 International Convention in San Diego on June 19–22, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) partnered with Yelp, the online review site, to produce a guidebook on the city’s top options for food, drinks, and diversions. The BIO 2017 Yelp Guidebook was primarily a print project, but it was also distributed online.

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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 As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions.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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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? . But 2017 was the year that many of the things that seemed like science fiction just a few short years ago became reality.

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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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. Medicine itself has undergone technological transformations before, but what’s happening now is different, according to Meskó, who also has a Ph.D. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.”

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