MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

While it’s critical to prepare for once-a-career issues like hurricanes or terrorism, it’s the “everyday disasters” that meeting professionals have to manage wisely onsite that can make or break a meeting. Attend this webinar to learn: Smart, think-on-your-feet tactics when problems arise at your meetings. Sponsored by: .

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2002 Medical Meetings Healthcare Meetings 66

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to results from a recent Kenes Group study, health-care professionals value high-quality speakers and discussions, but they also want a virtual platform that affords them flexibility, time, and opportunity to fully absorb them. Engaging content with a range of speakers and live discussions. CME accreditation.

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Medical Meetings Healthcare Speakers Education 108

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

Financial 96

Financial Insurance Contracts Medical Meetings 96

SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

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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Healthcare 2002 Education Consulting 246

PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. Convene spoke with Reed in late February to learn how he and his team reengineered the annual meeting not as a short-term strategy but to make it a sustainable enterprise — and a more valuable experience for all participants — for the coming years.

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2020 2021 Medical Meetings Education 98

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

Through a partnership formalized in late 2019 with Haymarket Medical Education, the mission was to sharpen member-data analysis and then leverage opportunities for additional content creation, speaker and presenter acquisition, and learner recruitment. What is the status of that event right now?

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2020 Education Medical Meetings 2019 91

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average, 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. They value experiences like food and beverage, speakers/entertainment, and learning environments with good audiovisual.

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Marketing Meetings Food and Beverage Advertising 51

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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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Sponsorships 2019 Medical Meetings Consulting 72

Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. Aventri (Loopd app). CrowdCompass from Cvent.

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Event Apps Conference Social Media Trade Shows 78

PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Less Panic, More Design Strategy.

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2009 Education Medical Meetings Conference 128

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Health-care providers have high standards for the meetings they attend, according to a recent report by American Express Meetings & Events. What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? Erickson Stock/Adobe Stock). I would say that this is absolutely true.

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Medical Meetings Meetings Education Speakers 45

SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

Bizzabo recently published a list of the top 60 event professionals to follow on Twitter based on their event coverage and overall digital presence—and we’re happy to see that lots of familiar faces within the Smart Meetings family made the list. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news.

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Trade Shows Social Media Medical Meetings Tech 40

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

It’s a fundamental technique of microbiology, and also the animating principle behind ASM Microbe, the brand-new annual conference that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) built from strands of two other annual conferences: its General Meeting and its Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Four or five keynotes are interspersed with panel and small-group discussions. FACE TO FACE “We have built a great deal of what I would call coffee time into the meeting,” Gold said. to more interactive sessions that include roundtables and small-group work. It’s just bringing this whole group of people together.” .

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Event Tech for Medical and Financial Meetings. Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of medical and financial meeting and event planning. Even if you don’t provide poster sessions at your events, it could be a great way to help home in on event apps more geared towards the medical industry.

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Tech Financial Medical Meetings Event Apps 83

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What makes one meeting professional happy may not be another’s cup of tea. I love a little bit of everything — the planning, the communication with vendors, speakers and sponsors, the creative aspects, the cyclical nature of the job, and my co-workers. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives.

Contracts 59

Contracts Travel Medical Meetings Education 59

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This year’s group is no exception. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. Where would you like your career to go?

2017 69

2017 Education Hospitality Meetings 69

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The $22 billion contributed by the meetings industry to local, state and federal taxes each year is dependent on the free flow of travel. Those in attendance underscored the importance of international inbound travel as a way to reduce the trade deficit, create jobs ( the meetings industry supports 1.1 To make that point, U.S.

Medical Meetings 57

Medical Meetings Travel Hotels Transportation 57

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s hard to fit a site visit into your schedule, but our site selection experts at Smart Meetings 360 always emphasize that site visits should not be skipped. Planner’s takeaway: When selecting entertainment and keynote speakers for your next event, do what Lady Gaga did: make the audience a priority.

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Entertainment Medical Meetings Site Selections Healthcare 40

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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