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6 Technological Breakthroughs That Will Change Health Care

PCMA Convene

Breakthroughs in health care that sounded like science fiction just a few years ago are rapidly becoming reality — and can be expected to have an impact on medical meetings. Eventually the technology will be used to manufacture everything from organs to medicine to medical equipment.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. ambassador to Germany.

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A Breakout Room of One’s Own

PCMA Convene

Try to create as many vertical markets as possible,” Little said. “We’ve tracked the metric, and in each of the first two years of operation, we’ve realized that financial goal.”. Rental revenue from hosting other groups helps in that push toward self-sufficiency, according to WVC’s Little—but that’s just the start.

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Modest and Reasonable with a Twist

SmartMeetings

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

To see a woman as the VP of marketing with all male colleagues speaks volumes. I still remember the chills I had while watching her lead an executive meeting. Manager, Strategic Events Visit Anaheim Anaheim, California, USA. Senior Tradeshow and Marketing Events Specialist Intuitive Surgical Sunnyvale, California, USA.

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Best Big Cities Also Among Best Meeting Cities

SmartMeetings

Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California. When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo.

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Design Thinking: An Event Strategists’ Toolkit

PCMA Convene

The firm was founded in 2016 by Allie Mahler, who, along with partner Scott Weiss, had previously worked at IDEO, the well-known global design firm based in Palo Alto, California. She turned to Community By Design — a New York City–based consulting firm that specializes in precisely those kinds of challenges — to help design the summit.

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