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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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Guest View: Image Audiovisuals Pivots During COVID-19 by Dave Mueller, President and Founder

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It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend.

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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. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings.

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

PCMA Convene

“The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said. While we often try to divide them between for-profits and nonprofits, the reality is that the goals of all medical meeting planners are quite similar.”. ‘A A Combination of Human and Machine Learning’. Quant relies on machine learning to do the heavy lifting.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. What can be done?

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Design Thinking: An Event Strategists’ Toolkit

PCMA Convene

Allie and I in some fashion still apply design thinking to every single project we work on,” Weiss said. Certainly, we haven’t tested its market viability yet, but here’s a thing that exists and if we could achieve that in three hours, think about if we applied this to a 12-week project cycle.”. It inspires a notion of possibility.”

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