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

Planning Pod

For example, event apps are a great for larger meetings and conferences or multi-day, multi-location events that have many moving parts (think lots of sessions, tracks, keynotes, networking, expo halls, dining options and the like) and lots of attendees looking at their smartphones constantly. CrowdCompass from Cvent.

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Scleroderma Congress Innovates to Emphasize Patient Participation

PCMA Convene

Not only has the event put a spotlight on researching scleroderma and exploring treatments, but Manzani said it is an early example of a medical meeting that emphasizes patient participation. Today, that includes social media, which can have an “echo” effect, she said, extending to public media.

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Scleroderma Congress Innovates to Emphasize Patient Participation

PCMA Convene

Not only has the event put a spotlight on researching scleroderma and exploring treatments, but Manzani said it is an early example of a medical meeting that emphasizes patient participation. Today, that includes social media, which can have an “echo” effect, she said, extending to public media.

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How To Minimize Unconscious Bias At Your Meeting

PCMA Convene

But it was a very big deal, and attendees called Microsoft out on social media. For example, a recent BBC test revealed that a job seeker with an English-sounding name was offered three times the number of interviews for advertising-sales positions in London as a similar applicant with a Muslim name. I will not stand for this.

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. Plus, live-streamed sessions and social media can capture much of what is going on, and meeting content — papers, PowerPoints, PDFs, videos — all can be made available online after the fact.

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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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