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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

Orlando has long been associated with magic, but that’s not the “tomorrowland” quality that has made it a Top 10 “American City of the Future,” ( fDi Magazine ). 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. 1 in the U.S.

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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. Pair this with a short turnaround time for healthcare meetings (back to the lack of predictability), plus the surge in live meetings put on pause from 2020 and 2021. Read More : Smart Tech: The Great Resignation.

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Where Does #EventTech Go from Here?

SmartMeetings

Medical meetings? Bizzabo raised $150 million in December, and less than six months later announced purchase of Swedish startup Whalebone and AI-powered meeting scheduler x.ai. See also: Tech Mergers Could Simplify Virtual Meeting Management. In Stage 2, if a niche was available, someone was there to fill it.

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How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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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