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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

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The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community. Not only is the region surrounding the Twin Cities known as Medical Alley and home to more than 1,000 health-care companies, MANOVA’s name is a mashup of Medical Alley and innovation. 14–16 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

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What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

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It offered a real-time glimpse of a number of pieces of data about the audience, including how they rated the content and speakers, whether it was their first time at the convention, and other information about the name-badge-wearing colleagues next to them in session rooms. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said.

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A Prescription for Disruptive Design

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At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Design is anchored in the public’s consciousness in ways that are familiar, like graphic design, or fashion design, or interior design.

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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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When Conferences Lie

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Be a speaker. In almost comical fashion, the website’s homepage proudly displays an image of Paris’ Louvre Museum as an attraction of Manchester — an obvious sign that all is not as it should be.”. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences?