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

PCMA Convene

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

SpotMe Blog

The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals. Clients – With the life sciences industry being so broad, it is important to know whether the medical communications agency has experience in your specific field.

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Gaining Hands-On Experience

PCMA Convene

How It Worked Experts in implantology from around the world — including Germany, India, France, Lebanon, U.K., Singapore, and the United States – held 13 separate table clinic sessions on everything from ridge expansion to maxillary sinus grafting at the congress.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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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