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Smart Tech: The 20% Difference

SmartMeetings

I’d worked with the organizers to put together a roundtable discussion of the latest event trends, so I started my session by asking the audience what trends they wanted to talk about. Almost none of the topic suggestions were about event trends. Okey-dokey, then. And the question that received the most nods of agreement?

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

SmartMeetings

As director of professional development for the Meeting Professionals International health care sector, she founded its Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which helps med/pharma meetings planners understand basic compliance principles.

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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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Bizzabo’s List of ‘Top Event Profs to Follow’ IDs Who’s Who in Industry

SmartMeetings

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. We love the research-backed insights Social Tables is providing to the meetings industry.

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Time to Rebrand Third-Party Planners

SmartMeetings

Hunt took it a step further saying she doesn’t even like to be called a planner, that what she and Mack do goes well beyond planning. Between medical meetings and mega-computer trade shows, their collective experiences help a variety of businesses stage critical, and fun, events around the globe.

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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. Where’s the Beef?

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

It was this moment where I realized that experiences in meetings can have an impact on attendees, and reshaped how I viewed my career. At some point, I would like to branch out in my career and experience what meeting planning is like in the private sector. Meeting planning is very exciting because of the variety it offers.

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