PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” Melissa Parish, the director of meetings and conferences at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), is coming face-to-face with team trust and empowerment this year: She’s in her third trimester of pregnancy, so she’ll miss AASLD’s largest annual event — The Liver Meeting, this Nov.

2010 40

2010 Social Media 2016 Speakers 40

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Dahlia+ in Boston. I love the hugs and high-fives we get at our tech bars and social media lounges, and the “shut the front door” moments during the sessions I do at conferences. What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings.

2017 82

2017 Contracts Negotiating Meetings 82

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Dahlia+ in Boston. I love the hugs and high-fives we get at our tech bars and social media lounges, and the “shut the front door” moments during the sessions I do at conferences. What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings.

2017 72

2017 Contracts Negotiating Tech 72

Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Boston, MA. Notable clients: Boston Logan International Airport, Cathay Pacific Airways, Sixpitch/Ryan Gravel, Southern Spirits Coalition, Virgin Atlantic Airways. Their collaborative group creates print, outdoor, social media, production, experiential, websites, interactive, and large-scale events. Meeting Expectations.

2019 78

2019 Sports Entertainment Advertising 78

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Another big, ongoing story has been the transformation of the image that meeting professionals hold of themselves. Meeting planning, which used to be described as an ‘Old Boys’’ network, may soon be a ‘Young Women’s’ network. You say, ‘What if in the meeting-planning industry, we borrowed a technique from Hollywood?’

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 Hotels 56