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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. Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t. And neither is the supply of talented staff.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

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. The solution?

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. I love how meeting planning involves finance, protocol, HR, international affairs, logistics, and other disciplines. I love pulling a plan together and watching it be executed — coming up with an idea and seeing the completed product. . Negotiating contracts.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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.

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