Event Marketer

MARCH 17, 2024

And when it comes to connecting with surgeons and other health care providers at medical meetings and conventions, great care must be given to create an environment that differentiates the brand and tells clear and engaging stories about its innovations. Technologies or tactics that are helping to engage and measure better?

2024 98

2024 Trade Shows Medical Meetings Banking 98

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer.

Meetings 98

Meetings Contracts Medical Meetings Travel 98

SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

These apps tended to offer deeper search capabilities to find people with similar interests manually, or AI matchmaking tools to help facilitate connection. Finding the right technology for your event should be an evolutionary process.

Tech 83

Tech Financial Medical Meetings Event Apps 83

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

Meetings 89

Meetings Medical Meetings Hotels Wireless 89

SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

InEvent has an HCP event management platform that allows pharma companies to plan all kinds of medical events. From medical meetings, sales training, life science conferences, summits, webinars, telemedicine and lectures. ON24’s customers include: Abbvie. 4) InEvent. Image by InEvent. 6Connex’s customers include: Salesforce.

2023 130

2023 Education Events Medical Meetings 130

Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Places emphasis on a highly brandable app that fully engages attendees across a number of tools. Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Superevent.

Event Apps 78

Event Apps Conference Social Media Trade Shows 78

Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend. So, we built our own, using e-AttendTM as the core.

Medical Meetings 119

Medical Meetings Fashion Technology 2019 119

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

Medical meetings? Every time I swore I’d never try another demo, I’d be treated to something new that built upon the event apps that had come before. In Stage 2, if a niche was available, someone was there to fill it. There’s an app for that. Scientific? We got your posters right here, digitally.

Event Apps 105

Event Apps Medical Meetings Contracts Financial 105

SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

By offering strategic planning, captivating content development, seamless logistics management, and the integration of advanced digital tools, the MedComms agency helps pharma clients effectively communicate their message, connect with healthcare professionals, and make a lasting impression within the industry.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare 2002 Education Consulting 246

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. Design is a unique lens to approach a lot of these problems that have become hard to solve because our traditional tools don’t provide new insight.

Medical Meetings 40

Medical Meetings 2015 Fashion Technology 40

PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

They set these policy restrictions that certain types of their staff could not have access to those tools within the platform, so we honored that and turned them off. For other companies that didn’t have the policy — or perhaps didn’t have it yet — we kept those tools engaged. I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings.

2020 98

2020 2021 Medical Meetings Education 98

SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2020

By providing guests with the tools to be successful, we are helping them feel more comfortable. The key focuses for minimizing risk are social distancing, hand washing, decontamination of highly touched areas and is wearing masks to reduce the spread. Act Like a Confident Leader. Attendees are craving direction.

Education 122

Education Hotels Venues Meetings 122

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. Those hard workers lost their livelihoods, customers and revenues through no fault of their own. We have also lost the mental health that comes with anticipation of travel.

Travel 52

Travel Trade Shows Airlines 2009 52

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

More importantly, if you need further convincing of the veracity of an event in question, you’ll find that many of their websites include a most persuasive sales tool: a cast of veteran, established academics who have previously attended or served on the organizing committee. What’s more, many appear to have decades-long histories.

Conference 94

Conference Medical Meetings Education 2017 94

PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Businesses — and conference organizers — traditionally have relied on tools including surveys and focus groups to try to understand what customers want. Storytelling is a really powerful tool” in this part of the process, he said. We all grew up in a world where we’re the experts and we have to come up with solutions,” Glatts said.

Tourism 75

Tourism Travel Sustainability Conference 75

SmartMeetings

JULY 22, 2019

Online communication tools, such as StaffMate Safe from StaffMate Online, allow employees and supervisors to seamlessly access vital information in an emergency. What are the most important technologies in terms of risk management?

Management 80

Management Risk Management Government Venues 80

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.

Contracts 110

Contracts Meetings 2003 Negotiating 110

PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

From discussing health-care reform at medical meetings, to talking about privacy concerns at IT conferences, a business event can be the friendly playground where attendees discuss particularly controversial topics.

Meetings 56

Meetings Social Media Conference 2016 56

SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. How to craft a code that protects everyone. The definition of safety is always relative.

Meetings 61

Meetings Venues Hotels Sports 61

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.

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 Hotels 56