Remove 2017 Remove Medical Meetings Remove Tech Remove Technology
article thumbnail

6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

As a result, medical meetings are finding other ways to demonstrate their value to current and prospective exhibitors. From beacon-collected data to lead scanners to third-party evaluations, here’s how two medical meetings are tackling the exhibitor ROI challenge. Strategy 1: Beacon Technology + Retrieval Devices.

article thumbnail

How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

When Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. on Sunday, Sept. All photos courtesy of Medicine X.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

PCMA Convene

In many cases, bigger isn’t always better: cars, personal technology, portion size — and, increasingly, cities. 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.

article thumbnail

5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

In the face of all the chatter about AR, VR, and the rest of the tech acronyms that have the potential to reinvent the event on-site experience, event organizers will get back to basics to reevaluate something that doesn’t require a headset or data collection: the names on the program. The tech industry and every industry must do better.”.

2018 101
article thumbnail

The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

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.”