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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. If we had a hybrid component, we would probably have more people opting in to go virtual; that changes what we would have been able to do on site because of our commitments to the hotel and the contracts.”.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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26 Best Mobile Conference and Event Apps + 14 Must-Have Features

Planning Pod

Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Includes intuitive app builder, content like speaker profiles and personal agendas + sponsor/exhibitor tools.

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How Much Should You Spend on Marketing Your Meeting?

PCMA Convene

They value experiences like food and beverage, speakers/entertainment, and learning environments with good audiovisual. Leadership often thinks the answer to their attendance problems is to earmark even more spend for attendance marketing. Spend in this category doesn’t contribute to the value proposition for attendees.

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

I love a little bit of everything — the planning, the communication with vendors, speakers and sponsors, the creative aspects, the cyclical nature of the job, and my co-workers. Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Senior Meetings Planner National Contract Management Association Ashburn, Virginia, USA. Whether they are speakers, vendors, partners, or staff, we all have the common goal of inspiring attendees to take away ideas and connections that enable them to become more engaged, be more productive, and grow professionally.

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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. 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.

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