Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. This topic came up last week during Florida Encounter , which included more than 5,000 one-on-one appointments between planners of all kinds and suppliers. Then she said she was really an independent meeting planner. We were getting warmer.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Statistics like these raise a question that the meetings industry must answer: If unconscious biases are hurting employees in offices, what are they doing to attendees at conferences and events? It’s called unconscious bias.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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