Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

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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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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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Ellen LaMaire.

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Tourism Medical Meetings Hotels 2016 98

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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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. Our brains are hard-wired to favor certain categories of people while doubting others.

Meetings 56

Meetings Social Media Conference 2016 56

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. 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.

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