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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?)

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

SmartMeetings

Maritz Travel continues to expand its offerings in the med/pharma meetings arena by launching Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions this week. Schaumann’s impact in the hospitality industry is far-reaching. Earlier this year, Maritz added Pat Schaumann to its staff as senior director of health care compliance.

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Time to Rebrand Third-Party Planners

SmartMeetings

Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. Rebranding is a natural part of the hospitality industry , so much so that we don’t even blink when properties change names or flags. Then she said she was really an independent meeting planner. Hotels do it all the time.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

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. HOLLY LAMMERT. The people!

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

What makes one meeting professional happy may not be another’s cup of tea. Which is pretty good news: There are a different ways to find fulfillment in the business-events industry. . Bringing my vision for an event to completion. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives.

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Safer Meeting Protocols

SmartMeetings

The architect of Walmart’s Black Friday crowd management plan and “retailtainment” events serves as chairman of the Department of Homeland Security Public Assembly Facility Sub-sector Group for commercial facilities. He is also a former emergency medical technician, and he compares the current situation to an accident scene.

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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. Nichols’ pioneering writing in the field — she edited the first version of Professional Meeting Management , published in 1985 — turned her into a teacher, she said. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.)

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