PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms. For MGMA’s Medical Practices Excellence Conference, scheduled for Oct.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

When Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. on Sunday, Sept. All photos courtesy of Medicine X.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Do you think that medical meetings have a role to play in changing the design and experience of health care? Recently he gave Convene a preview.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? In November, American Express Meetings & Events published research based on interviews with 12 physicians who practice in specialties across North America and Europe. But I think reputation makes a big difference to physicians.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Part of SPN’s model involved live events, as well as the idea for a seminal annual conference that would connect Midwest entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and each other. “[SPN] SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6. The format was a success.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

When the Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) bought land adjacent to its Las Vegas headquarters about 10 years ago, the purchase was regarded as an investment. And meetings are still the primary way to do that. Which is why WVC isn’t the only such group building its own conference space. . Oquendo Center in Las Vegas.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The annual conference was a good solid performer, but a pretty conventional show — mostly male, mostly white, mostly older, with many exclusive events,” said Kathron Compton, AIA’s senior vice president for brand and engagement. “It It felt typical of every conference I’d ever attended.”. Architects are a unique breed.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold. As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Late one Thursday night last March, attendees at Microsoft’s 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco looked forward to unwinding after a full program. It’s called unconscious bias. “Biases can begin at a very young age.”

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo. Of course, who can forget about Portland’s national reputation as the top foodie destination? to speak there every year. Seattle also holds a firm position among the world’s top business cities.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Planner’s takeaway: Of course, we can’t all have a host city that undergoes billion-dollar renovations and construction projects to coincide with the date of our event. In a press conference prior to the game, she fueled even more chatter by stating that she wanted her performance to promote inclusion and equality.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.” . &

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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. Navy and U.S.

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