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Q&A with Tori Barnes on Advocating for Bold Action

SmartMeetings

Travel Association. Tori Emerson Barnes understood earlier than many in the North American meetings industry that the coronavirus was going to have a devastating impact on the economy. It was an almost surgical process requiring significant collaboration from all sectors of the travel industry. Name : Tori Emerson Barnes.

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[Webinar] Everyday Meeting Disasters: Creative Work Arounds—and Smart Planning Strategies to Save Your Event

MeetingsNet

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. Michal Skalski is an account manager at Creative Group, planning medical meetings, advisory boards and incentive travel programs.

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Bizzabo’s List of ‘Top Event Profs to Follow’ IDs Who’s Who in Industry

SmartMeetings

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. She’s constantly traveling and speaking just about everywhere. Coming in at No.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

A’18’s programming included more than 785 activities — and the trade-show floor counted as just one — with a dizzying range of breakouts, including sustainable urban housing, energy efficiency, accessibility, mitigating biodiversity loss, landfill reclamation, and floodproofing. More Innovative Meetings.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

Consider CES — one of the best-recognized names in trade shows — where the main stage has been dominated by men. As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. Travel Association’s Secure Tourism Summit.

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Modest and Reasonable with a Twist

SmartMeetings

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings. HLTH AND WELLNESS.