SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 10, 2020

One of the serious side effects of the wave of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases across the world was a sudden rush to learn a foreign language—or at least two words that had largely passed under many meeting professionals’ radar for years: force majeure. Smart Meetings asked veteran attorney John Foster, Esq., John Foster.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

Global DMC Partners (GDP) , a global network of independently owned DMCs and creative event experts, held a virtual open forum , “The Meeting Planner’s New Reality in the ‘New Normal,’” on June 24. More than 700 meeting and event professionals from around the world registered. Contract negotiations/liability/waivers (43 percent).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

“Our attendees are cancer nurses,” said Jen Krause, the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) director of national conferences and meetings. They’re administering medication that can truly be life-or-death. It’s a problem in the medical profession.”. So where do annual meetings fit in among all that stress and burnout?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetings … medical meetings have been the most skittish,” Heard said. There’s the sentiment that seems to be out there among a lot of medical groups [that gathering in person is] sending the wrong message to the public.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many mentioned the same things: autonomy, creativity, challenge, the opportunity to travel, and to see a project through from beginning to end. What makes one meeting professional happy may not be another’s cup of tea. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Constantly meeting new people.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. 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.

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