PCMA Convene

JANUARY 15, 2019

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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Medical Meetings Meetings 2018 Insurance 81

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. Still, by the end of 2019, almost every event had a mobile app, and some were pushing the envelope with features like interactivity, chatbots and AI networking. Medical meetings? Scientific?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

A participant at the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019 runs a probe over an “alien” with magnets in its chest in order to view ultrasound images revealing a cardiac condition. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. .

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The partner in AIA’s reboot was 360 Live Media, a full-service marketing and experience design agency. They need it to be solid and fresh, so we started thinking broadly about how we could amp it up a bit,” said Christopher Gribbs, AIA’s managing director for conference strategy and operations. “We Back to the Drawing Board.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. What can be done?

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Conference Medical Meetings Education 2017 94

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries.

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Medical Meetings Food and Beverage Education Technology 93