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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?) Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape.

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Phoenix, Just What the Doctor Ordered

MeetingsNet

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. And the Phoenix Convention Center sits in the middle of a walkable downtown filled with independent restaurants, craft brewpubs and live music venues. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

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Surveys: Med/Pharma Meetings are Growing

Smart Meetings

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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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

In fact, the top-rated Florida Hospital Global Robotics Institute provides cutting-edge health-care simulation training for more than 50,000 surgeons around the world. This “living lab” is a major reason why Orlando now hosts 40 percent of HCEA’s top 50 largest medical meetings. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona.

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

PCMA Convene

We got some really incredible speakers in the early days, and then just kind of built on that — built what we’re really good at, which is hospitality and treating people really well and having a good time.”. Likewise, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management organizes its own roster of finance-related gatherings.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

based medical meeting professional — who preferred to remain anonymous in an effort to steer clear of any connection to the fraudulent conference landscape — reminded Convene that the same model has been used at legitimate conferences for decades. I spent 36 years working in a hospital setting, and we have limited education budgets.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. I was both electrified and a little stunned by what I learned — who knew that nearly half of the hospitals in Rwanda receive medical supplies by drone?

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