Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

As she approached graduation and began looking for jobs, she remembers, a male professor told her not to set her goals too high—Chicago was a major market, and he said she should search for starting television jobs in smaller cities. She wanted to be a TV anchor in the Chicago area. She wasn’t convinced.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

During this webinar, Ludwig shows the many advancements meeting professionals may come into contact with in the near and distant future, such as second-floor public transport, futuristic venues and self-driving luggage. Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. Medical meetings? Think back to the humble event app to gain insight into the future of online event platforms. Stages of App Evolution. There was a surprising amount of hand-wringing, however.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

A participant at the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019 runs a probe over an “alien” with magnets in its chest in order to view ultrasound images revealing a cardiac condition. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. .

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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. The next version needs to be broadened so the Paycheck Protection Program includes destination marketing organizations and crucial liability protection that will get businesspeople traveling again.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The partner in AIA’s reboot was 360 Live Media, a full-service marketing and experience design agency. They need it to be solid and fresh, so we started thinking broadly about how we could amp it up a bit,” said Christopher Gribbs, AIA’s managing director for conference strategy and operations. “We More Innovative Meetings.

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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. Mapping the Knowledge Economy.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Imagine a two-by-two grid with “business as usual” in the upper-left corner, “crisis” in the lower-left, “breakthrough thinking” in the lower-right, and “breakthrough strategies” in the upper-right. Their market share changes, their finances change, their leadership changes, and it sends them into a crisis or near-crisis mode.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

It more likely means they’ve been working with scientific and medical conferences more often than other “off the shelf” apps, more deftly understand the nuances and goals of these sessions, and may have developed other technology specific to those markets. Enhanced Security. Enhanced Multimedia and Video-On-Demand.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. What can be done?

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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

To see a woman as the VP of marketing with all male colleagues speaks volumes. I still remember the chills I had while watching her lead an executive meeting. Senior Tradeshow and Marketing Events Specialist Intuitive Surgical Sunnyvale, California, USA. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Denise Silber, who was born in the United States but has spent most of her career working in Europe, is the founder and president of Paris-based Basil Strategies, a digital health-communications consultancy. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Our strategy has always been, how can we reach outside of that core group and not only reach the activist travelers, but also reach your average consumers?”. “We “Traditionally, in the travel sector, sustainable-tourism professionals have tended to talk to other sustainable tourism professionals,” Louise said.

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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. Blow Up Your F&B.

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