SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This medical communications agency creates bespoke online registration websites, manages travel and logistics, assists with content development, oversees speaker management, and provides full onsite support and delivery. They also tailor their approach to complement internal departments and teams as needed.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

Tested strategies to avoid common meeting disasters. Speakers: Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE , is president of Bondurant Consulting. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the meeting, trade show, and hotel industries to the table, with expertise in strategic meetings management and the healthcare sector.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. We actually changed all of our meal periods to be outside to try to allow the group to feel more comfortable with eating. “I’m You’ve been here before. Changing Plans on a Dime. Katie Bohrer. “We

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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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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.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings. The ASH Whiteboard Wall brought ideas shared by participants to visual life at the virtual annual meeting. For medical meetings, we have an embargo in play for many sessions. We had speakers prerecord their scientific presentation for that.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Includes intuitive app builder, content like speaker profiles and personal agendas + sponsor/exhibitor tools.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? In November, American Express Meetings & Events published research based on interviews with 12 physicians who practice in specialties across North America and Europe. I would say that this is absolutely true.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. More resources on Suckow: MPI Recap: Engaging Every Type of Meeting Attendee. Dahlia Gazzar.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The ambassador to Germany.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

Everything Olean was trying to do with ASM Microbe could be summed up in the program’s opening keynote speaker: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing health care and eliminating poverty around the world. It’s a very big group,” Olean said. “In

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They value experiences like food and beverage, speakers/entertainment, and learning environments with good audiovisual. Leadership often thinks the answer to their attendance problems is to earmark even more spend for attendance marketing. Spend in this category doesn’t contribute to the value proposition for attendees.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Four or five keynotes are interspersed with panel and small-group discussions. The program is dominated by panel discussions in a variety of formats — from straightforward group presentations on topics such as “The State of Health-Care Innovation” and “Breaking the Code: Will Next-Generation Sequencing Bring Genomics to the Mainstream?,”

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Private communication with speakers and exhibitors can be enabled as well, and many platforms offered the built-in ability to (either randomly or by criteria defined by the organizers) put attendees into small group discussions or breakouts. This hybrid approach didn’t really satisfy anybody, including myself.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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. Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Making relationships with speakers and clients. Negotiating contracts.

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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. It’s a diverse group, full of all types of personalities. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. MORGAN PREWITT, CMP. The people!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attendees included representatives from Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, AccorHotels, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Choice Hotels International, Freeman, Host Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Universal Parks & Resorts.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Planner’s takeaway: When selecting entertainment and keynote speakers for your next event, do what Lady Gaga did: make the audience a priority. If your medical meeting features an elite group of doctors and healthcare professionals, pick a speaker who is familiar with the industry and can address their specific pain points.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. Where’s the Beef?

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