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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

Everyone was interested in the idea of MANVOA, but we were having these very corporate conversations about waiting to do it until 2020,” Addicks said. In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold. And I knew what would happen.

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Best Practices for Med/Pharma Meetings

SmartMeetings

Have You Created a Medical Contingency Plan for Your Event Yet? Representatives of the pharmaceutical and hospitality industries came together for the first time to talk strategically about how to deal with a scary new trend in health-care meetings: localized regulations. Webinar Provides Tips for Boosting Medical Meetings.

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Contracts, Negotiations and Financials

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings. Tackle the challenges of Covid-era medical meetings with tips from Smart Meetings’ latest webinar with Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Acing the Post-COVID Contract.

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

PCMA Convene

In the survey, 64 percent of respondents predicted they will host a live event between August 2020 and January 2021. To see how that compared to participants’ expectations, the audience was asked in a live audience poll if they anticipate their company or clients will host face-to-face or hybrid meetings and events in Q3 or Q4 of 2020.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

PCMA Convene

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer. “It