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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. The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community. 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

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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Pumping New Life Into Associations’ Online Revenue Streams

PCMA Convene

In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. 5-8, 2020, giving Reed and his team the opportunity to observe how other organizations were producing digital events throughout the year and time to think through potential business mod- els. I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings.

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. That’s why I believe our [attendance] numbers skyrocketed in 2020. You’ve been here before. You think you’re ready for anything, and you look forward to a well-deserved rest when it’s over.

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Turning a Supertanker in a Storm

MeetingsNet

For Clif Knight, MD, FAAFP, senior vice president of education for the American Academy of Family Physicians, 2020 was supposed to be about a gradual reshaping of the organization’s CME portfolio. Early in 2019 we had planned our first fully livestreamed course for spring 2020; the topic was rural medicine. Knight: Yes.

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26 Best Mobile Conference and Event Apps + 14 Must-Have Features

Planning Pod

26 Best Mobile Event Apps of 2020. Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Perfect for: Scientific and medical meetings and conferences of all sizes.