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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Be a speaker. But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries. There’s just one problem: Cassidy says those events are fictional. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. (Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

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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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