PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? The number of medicine-focused conferences that bring in a wide range of disciplines and diverse audiences is growing. Some of the most influential — and one newcomer to watch — include: TEDMED , Nov.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. The post How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings appeared first on PCMA Convene.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Since there isn’t “a real congress center on the island,” she said, AIM Group created one inside Lampedusa’s airport, equipping rooms with technology and furniture that will remain for future meeting use.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. Those hard workers lost their livelihoods, customers and revenues through no fault of their own. We have also lost the mental health that comes with anticipation of travel.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I truly love working with course directors of medical meetings, knowing that we help train thousands to impact the lives of millions by helping clients create memorable events. What I love about my job: I love the fast-paced environment in that nothing ever stays the same. Christine Stoffel.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I truly love working with course directors of medical meetings, knowing that we help train thousands to impact the lives of millions by helping clients create memorable events. What I love about my job: I love the fast-paced environment in that nothing ever stays the same. Christine Stoffel.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are a key part of the AAAS Annual Meeting — and all attendees are encouraged to have fun with badge ribbons. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Alice Brouhard was no stranger to medical conferences. Photo Credit: Adobe Stock. As a registered nurse, she’d attended them for years. But she never imagined her family’s life could be so deeply affected by not just one conference, but two — one that she attended and the other that she founded and organized.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

BIO offered more than session info in its on-site program. It’s a common conundrum: Your attendees want to explore the city, but where should they go? Which bars are beloved by locals? Which restaurants have the tastiest food or the coolest views? Sometimes, it helps to ask the experts.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

CED LSC 2017, Credit CED. It’s pounded into us from kindergarten — hammered with the weight of Thomas Edison’s famous quote about genius being 99 percent perspiration — that things usually improve slowly and steadily as opposed to in visionary leaps or inspirational ashes. But what if you wanted to encourage breakthrough thinking?

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

After a Taiwanese business magazine article about the company came out this year, the company appears to have shut down or changed names because their websites have shut down.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. PROFESSORS ARE TOP PREY. In fact, a veteran U.S.-based

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Chicago will be featured in the December issue of Smart Meetings magazine. Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. Being in medical-meeting planning yields a high level of satisfaction, because I know that our conference provides our membership with education that is critical to improving orthopedic patient care. .

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

From discussing health-care reform at medical meetings, to talking about privacy concerns at IT conferences, a business event can be the friendly playground where attendees discuss particularly controversial topics.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. How to craft a code that protects everyone. The definition of safety is always relative.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Glatts led a group of more than two-dozen business-event strategists through a months-long exercise in applying design-thinking processes to medical meetings, and he and three of the exercise participants talked about their experience on a panel at PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2018 in Nashville. “We

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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. For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals.

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