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Medical Meetings Embrace Wellness

PCMA Convene

But where sustainable design focuses on preserving the planet’s health, wellness design is all about us — the air we inhale, the light we see by, the sounds we hear. Yoga and 5K fun runs have become staples at many other medical meetings, too, including the ONS Congress and the AOA’s OMED. Tapping into Wellness Design.

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Medical Meetings Propel Philadelphia Tourism

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The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown from Jan. A direct beneficiary of this activity has been the medical meetings industry , helping propel hospitality and tourism to Philadelphia’s third largest industry. Click for more details.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

PCMA Convene

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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Phoenix Is Just What The Doctor Ordered

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Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Medical organizations have the opportunity to make use of the PBC’s University of Arizona Center for Simulation and Innovation.

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Pumping New Life Into Associations’ Online Revenue Streams

PCMA Convene

In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. Convene spoke with Reed in late February to learn how he and his team reengineered the annual meeting not as a short-term strategy but to make it a sustainable enterprise — and a more valuable experience for all participants — for the coming years.

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Design Thinking: An Event Strategists’ Toolkit

PCMA Convene

Moreover — considering ITA’s lofty goal of making sustainable travel a vehicle for combating global poverty and inequality — Louise wanted to make the 2017 Travel + SocialGood Summit held in New York City last November into a catalyst for change. We’re not just talking about sustainable tourism, we’re generating action-oriented results.”

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

But, she added, the event was just maintaining itself, and “with an average age of 63, it wouldn’t be sustainable in the long term. This meant including apprentices and students, landscape architects, sustainability practitioners, and products and services at the outer edge of innovation to feed the commercial side of the expo.

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