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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

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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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

PCMA Convene

The changes brought about by the pandemic have created “the best period” in his long career in the business events industry, said Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP. I’m a firm advocate that hybrid events are here to stay,” Reed said. Our audience really has grown to expect choices and the hybrid event is the ultimate choice.”.

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Best Practices for Med/Pharma Meetings

SmartMeetings

When it comes to event apps, 80% of their functionality is the same. Have You Created a Medical Contingency Plan for Your Event Yet? Webinar Provides Tips for Boosting Medical Meetings. The Ground Shifts Yet Again for Medical Meetings. Smart Tech: The 20% Difference.

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Convincing Stakeholders to Hold Live or Hybrid Events is Planners’ Top Concern

PCMA Convene

Global DMC Partners (GDP) , a global network of independently owned DMCs and creative event experts, held a virtual open forum , “The Meeting Planner’s New Reality in the ‘New Normal,’” on June 24. More than 700 meeting and event professionals from around the world registered. Catherine Chaulet. 64 percent), the U.K. (10

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Contracts, Negotiations and Financials

SmartMeetings

In the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “How to Harness the Power of Negotiation to Master Your Post-Covid Events Career,” Alison Fragale shares how to be your own cheerleader and the science of prenegotiating. This year, we spoke to legal professionals for the best tips, tricks and insights on negotiating event contracts during Covid.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. The solution?

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Where Does #EventTech Go from Here?

SmartMeetings

Time has been particularly elastic in the last year, and (meaning no disrespect to those that have lost or suffered) that’s been particularly the case in the #eventtech space, where more innovation in digital and hybrid events has come in the last year than in quite some time. During the first five years of event apps, adoption grew steadily.