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How Will Europe’s New MedTech Guidelines Affect Your Meetings?

PCMA Convene

The effects of the adopted changes from MedTech Europe and Mecomed — the de facto authorities for European medical-technology health-care companies — will be implemented beginning in January 2018. When a medical-technology company buys floor space in the exhibit hall, it targets specific attendees. Davide Veglia, ABTS president.

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Nothing Can Replace In-Person Experience

PCMA Convene

During Convening Leaders last month in Pittsburgh, I — along with about a dozen others, mostly medical meeting planners and a few industry suppliers — witnessed an open-heart surgery. There’s no direct connection between this program and medical meetings. Michelle Russell. Lawrence Convention Center.

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

Silber works with clients that include professional organizations, the pharmaceutical and device industries, technology companies and startups, hospitals, and government agencies. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. We wanted PCMA to expand and to be more proactive in the convention industry,” said Nichols, speaking from her home in Florida, where she is retired. There was a lot of that at the time.”.

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