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Surveys: Med/Pharma Meetings are Growing

Smart Meetings

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

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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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Louisville and More

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has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Before joining TMG, Diamond worked as medical meetings project manager for MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. Burks has also held conference service positions at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, The St. Darryl Diamond, CMP. Talley Management Group (TMG), Inc., Ellen LaMaire.

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How To Minimize Unconscious Bias At Your Meeting

PCMA Convene

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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Best Big Cities Also Among Best Meeting Cities

SmartMeetings

The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo. of contiguous exhibit space, two ballrooms and 50 meeting rooms. Naples, Florida. Collier County, dubbed Florida’s Paradise Coast by the local convention and visitors bureau, is part meeting destination and part winter refuge.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. We wanted PCMA to expand and to be more proactive in the convention industry,” said Nichols, speaking from her home in Florida, where she is retired. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.) Navy and U.S.

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