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 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

After studying 100 or so meetings’ profit-and-loss statements in great detail, I can confirm that this expense line item varies greatly.Some organizations spend as little as 2 percent and have a very healthy conference product, while others rack up spending in the 20- to 25-percent range and are on life support.

Marketing 51

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are a key part of the AAAS Annual Meeting — and all attendees are encouraged to have fun with badge ribbons. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Below are a few meeting-related observations about the top 10 cities listed among Conde Nast’s Best Big Cities and why they are so valuable to the meetings and events industry. Best Big Cities That Are Also Best Meeting Cities. There will be five times more meeting space and 27 new loading docks.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This is our fourth class,” said PCMA President and CEO Deborah Sexton, “and with each one, we are struck by the passion and insights these individuals bring to the business-events community. Derek Anderson. HOLLY LAMMERT.

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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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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

In her role as the executive director of the Impact Travel Alliance (ITA), a nonprofit organization linking global travel professionals with world-changing ambitions, Kelley Louise oversees a network that hosts approximately 20 educational events around the world each year, including ITA’s flagship Travel + SocialGood Summit.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals.

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