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

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s a problem in the medical profession.”. So where do annual meetings fit in among all that stress and burnout? Between travel, long days, and pressure to squeeze in enough CME credits, it’s easy for conferences to become fresh sources of anxiety and exhaustion rather than reprieves from the daily grind. For 2019, held Oct.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. million business travelers met in San Francisco for an increase of 2.7 Combined, leisure and business travelers accounted for $9.3

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

One day I may be working with internal departments to develop a one-of-a-kind experience here in Anaheim, and another day I may be traveling across the country to host a client event. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. ALEX DEERING.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

In her role as the executive director of the Impact Travel Alliance (ITA), a nonprofit organization linking global travel professionals with world-changing ambitions, Kelley Louise oversees a network that hosts approximately 20 educational events around the world each year, including ITA’s flagship Travel + SocialGood Summit.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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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