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Convincing Stakeholders to Hold Live or Hybrid Events is Planners’ Top Concern

PCMA Convene

The discussion began with an overview of GDP’s Q2 Meetings & Events Pulse Survey, which was conducted in May and included responses from nearly 400 planners based in the U.S. (64 In the survey, 64 percent of respondents predicted they will host a live event between August 2020 and January 2021. 64 percent), the U.K. (10

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‘The Hugs Felt More Genuine’ at This In-Person Health-Care Meeting

PCMA Convene

What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetingsmedical 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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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

In a reader survey we sent out earlier this year to readers, when we asked “What do you like best about your job?,” Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Learning about market trends and trends specific to the meetings I plan.

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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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