SmartMeetings

APRIL 29, 2024

This Month’s Reads: Planning for Medical Meetings Every industry has its own cultural norms and professional values that are expected to be reflected at a company’s event. B’s Book Club: Creating Experiences How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events —co-authored by Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc. (M&IW)

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 15, 2019

The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community. Not only is the region surrounding the Twin Cities known as Medical Alley and home to more than 1,000 health-care companies, MANOVA’s name is a mashup of Medical Alley and innovation.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers Swanson says the conference used to bring professionals of all types, like medical billers or coders, to the conference. “We When you walk into this room, there won’t be a speaker delivering their wisdom,” he says.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2019

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. Use easy, interest-peaking subject lines in email invitations (maybe the name of a prominent speaker). Meeting Design and Regulations.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? In November, American Express Meetings & Events published research based on interviews with 12 physicians who practice in specialties across North America and Europe. I would say that this is absolutely true.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Patient-facing health-care professionals will need to improve their ability to explain complex medical terms, diagnoses, and treatments to patients and their families, so they can do their part in improving their health. What does that mean for professional medical conferences? Submissions or curation?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. This time on the podcast we meet Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. And these interactive approaches are much more labor intensive.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2022

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to results from a recent Kenes Group study, health-care professionals value high-quality speakers and discussions, but they also want a virtual platform that affords them flexibility, time, and opportunity to fully absorb them. Engaging content with a range of speakers and live discussions. CME accreditation.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

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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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2019

Of the top 12 excuses given by conference organizers to explain why female speakers are underrepresented in — or absent altogether from — their meeting programs, the leading one is this: “We know we have no women. Adobe Stock/Good Studio). We are always looking for ideas. Could you please send some names?” How a Text Group Went Viral.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dates — July 12-14 — fell within the same window as the original event, and the virtual event featured a condensed program of “simulive” or pre-recorded sessions mixed with live Q&As with planned speakers.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When choosing the events to attend, HCPs are looking to stay up to date on the latest trends for their specialties, meet with experts or key opinion leaders, and network with colleagues. A majority of HCPs want to contribute to the meeting agenda; 39% have never been asked to contribute and only 15% do so currently. HCP Expectations.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Private communication with speakers and exhibitors can be enabled as well, and many platforms offered the built-in ability to (either randomly or by criteria defined by the organizers) put attendees into small group discussions or breakouts. This hybrid approach didn’t really satisfy anybody, including myself.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

Life Sciences and Health Care — The 650-acre Lake Nona Medical City is making a name for itself as the home of innovation within the biotechnology and life-sciences industries, with a collection of state-of-the-art health-care, research, and medical-training facilities. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This medical communications agency creates bespoke online registration websites, manages travel and logistics, assists with content development, oversees speaker management, and provides full onsite support and delivery. They also tailor their approach to complement internal departments and teams as needed.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. The Greater Phoenix area’s combination of affordability, accessibility, proximity and authority sets this destination apart for medical meetings.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Will our submission process yield the highest quality sessions or will we need to invite speakers who we know can address our learning priorities? High-quality learning is worthy of investing time and money. Submissions or curation? Tip: Conference organizers are increasingly embracing a combination of curation and submission.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? HLTH is expected to launch with 2,000 attendees, 200-plus CEOs and company founders, and 300-plus speakers. The post Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences appeared first on PCMA Convene.

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Connect Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Speaker Bio: Mahoganey Jones is versatile, results-oriented certified meeting professional and digital event strategist with proven skills and track record in all aspects of meeting management. Specializing in associations and medical meetings, she produces exceptionally planned and revenue generating educational events.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ Let’s say you have a guest ticket, VIP ticket, presenter/speaker ticket, and sponsor ticket. “We’re seeing people actually admitting their niches,” says Brandt. Now people are coming out loud and proud.”. You can apply logic to the types of tickets available.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. China, Germany, India, and Japan, told Convene that members’ names and photos are often displayed online as speakers or members of organizing committees without their knowledge to give a fake conference a sense of legitimacy. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

Tested strategies to avoid common meeting disasters. Speakers: Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE , is president of Bondurant Consulting. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the meeting, trade show, and hotel industries to the table, with expertise in strategic meetings management and the healthcare sector.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It offered a real-time glimpse of a number of pieces of data about the audience, including how they rated the content and speakers, whether it was their first time at the convention, and other information about the name-badge-wearing colleagues next to them in session rooms. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Jan. The boutique conference has built quite the following , drawing the most influential managers in the medical meetings market. Dominguez’s presentation on Feb. To register, go to smartmeetings.com/webinars.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings. The ASH Whiteboard Wall brought ideas shared by participants to visual life at the virtual annual meeting. For medical meetings, we have an embargo in play for many sessions. We had speakers prerecord their scientific presentation for that.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Planner’s takeaway: When selecting entertainment and keynote speakers for your next event, do what Lady Gaga did: make the audience a priority. If your medical meeting features an elite group of doctors and healthcare professionals, pick a speaker who is familiar with the industry and can address their specific pain points.

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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. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The ambassador to Germany.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I love a little bit of everything — the planning, the communication with vendors, speakers and sponsors, the creative aspects, the cyclical nature of the job, and my co-workers. Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Making relationships with speakers and clients.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Do you think that medical meetings have a role to play in changing the design and experience of health care? Recently he gave Convene a preview.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

Everything Olean was trying to do with ASM Microbe could be summed up in the program’s opening keynote speaker: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing health care and eliminating poverty around the world.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 22, 2019

A glitchy AV system or a sick keynote speaker may seem like disasters on event day, but are you ready if a real emergency hits? Hope for the best but plan for the worst. We hope that everything goes to plan at all your events but sometimes it doesn’t.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

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. More resources on Suckow: MPI Recap: Engaging Every Type of Meeting Attendee. Dahlia Gazzar.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

There are those medical and scientific events whose programs are rooted in the standard practice of one-way presentations — solo speakers who rely on poorly designed PowerPoint slides with large copy blocks in tiny fonts to drive home their points. Certainly, some scientific conferences are guilty as charged.

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