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

PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

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

JANUARY 24, 2019

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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Eagle, Parrot, Owl, Dove: What’s Your Communication Style?

MeetingsNet

APRIL 1, 2016

Merrick Rosenberg urged Pharma Forum attendees to understand their own communication style, recognize the styles of others, and use that knowledge to create better relationships. read more.

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5 Ways to Integrate Social Media into Your Communication Plan

MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

By Kelsey Dixon, davies + dixon. Whether you’re dealing with a small glitch or a major crisis, social media should be an integral part of your strategic communication plan. read more.

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Engagement: It’s Not Rocket Science (But it Is Neuroscience)

MeetingsNet

MARCH 23, 2016

Incorporate these neuroscience findings into your event design when your objective is learning, collaboration, or change. read more.

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New Brands Emerge from Benchmark/Gemstone Combo

MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Benchmark Hospitality International and Gemstone Hotels & Resorts have merged to become BENCHMARK, a global hospitality company with a new corporate identity and three distinct hotel collections. read more.

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Real-Time ROI Dashboard Launched by Etouches

MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Etouches is aiming to make measurement of a meeting’s return on investment both more simple and more powerful, through continuous measurement and ways to get flagging metrics back on track. read more.

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Two Simple Secrets to Happy, Engaged Attendees

MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Nearly half of attendees in a recent survey said they fell asleep or felt drowsy during a meeting. Hilton’s Meet with Purpose program gives planners plug-and-play menu and activity ideas designed to wake them right up. read more.

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Venues and Destinations, Showcase Your Accessibility Bona Fides

MeetingsNet

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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Venues and Destinations, Show Off Your Accessibility Bona Fides

MeetingsNet

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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The Night the Lights Went Out in Boston

MeetingsNet

AUGUST 31, 2016

How one association struggled with whether or not to cancel its convention and expo when disaster struck. read more.

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9 Meeting Breaks You've Got to Try

MeetingsNet

AUGUST 12, 2016

Check out these creative ideas for getting attendees past the mid-afternoon slump and through a long meeting day with energy and good humor. read more.

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department.

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