PCMA Convene

JULY 8, 2020

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina addresses the online audience for the virtual REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. There was no chance that the event — REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo, scheduled for May in Washington, D.C. The event is held each year over six days in D.C.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Complex gatherings require creative solutions Brandon Goodman Meeting professionals plan their tactical strategies for months before entering the Zone of Action in the ballroom. Read More : Hey, Busy Meeting Planner, You Feeling Stressed? We set up an environment to meet each specific client’s needs.”

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Unique Venues

APRIL 21, 2021

Each year hundreds of thousands of events flow through the Washington D.C, Maryland, Virginia corridor (also known as the DMV) making it one of the most sought-after areas to meet. Our first stop through the DMV takes us to The Catholic University of America and its beautiful 176-acre campus in Washington D.C.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 11, 2020

Do the widespread Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests calling for an end to racial bias in all its forms leave you wondering how meeting planners can join the struggle against the long history of discrimination? In a message to Destination DC’s members following BLM protests in Washington, D.C., Amplify Black Voices.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

15-19 The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting takes over the small Swiss town of Davos during the third week of January for collaborative, public-private discussions on global challenges. Now, marketers are in the mix, too, taking over real estate on the promenade below the convention center where the meeting takes place. 28-29 D.C.’s

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Eventinterface

MAY 7, 2018

Kimberly Braun, a retreat and workshop facilitator, TEDx speaker and meditation faculty at the renowned Omega Institute, shares her top tips and exercises to prevent and manage stress, and tackle stress should it occur. Her Masters in theology was completed in 2001 in Washington D.C.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2022

PCMA Convening Leaders, the association’s biggest annual program, was a symbolic return to meeting for an organization that was largely virtual last year with small groups gathered around the world for watch parties and a broadcasting hub in Singapore. The presentations were translated into 21 languages using Wordly software. Sherrif Karamat.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Tommy Goodwin “The big-picture, 30,000-foot story is that Washington, D.C., Ongoing Challenges While Washington, D.C., And it’s a potential loss of sharing the knowledge and experience of speakers.” works to reduce visa processing times, event organizers have been left to navigate the issue themselves.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 22, 2023

With eight ample meeting spaces, the NHCC is ideal for any group size and event. Where the Arts and Culture Meet The NHCC serves as a community hub for art and culture, hosting events showcasing visual arts, as well as performing arts such as the New Mexico Poetry Symposium that took place in late April. in the world.

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Event Leadership Institute

MARCH 4, 2021

Those questions and more were addressed during a recent ELI webinar on diversity, equity, and inclusion —known collectively as DEI—with Brandi Carson, co-owner of Houston-based Posh & Private Event Design; Devin Lewis CEM, CMP, director of regional sales at Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and based in Washington, D.C.;

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 30, 2021

Top meeting professionals and dignitaries met this week at Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Loudoun County, Virginia, to celebrate the return to business at Smart Meetings’ first face-to-face event of 2021, Mid-Atlantic Experience. Commissioner Phyllis Randall explained that the county 45 miles from Washington, D.C.,

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Meet the “In-Crowd,” our 2019 Connect Association 40 Under 40. 31 • Associate Manager of Meetings. Washington, D.C. Destination Tahoe Meetings & Events. 33 • Senior Manager, Meetings and Events. 37 • Director of Education and Meetings. 35 • Director, Meetings & Conventions. Alena Frey.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This puts a lot of pressure on meeting professionals to wow the crowd with a big-name booking, such as Michelle Obama’s speaking engagement last week at Dreamforce in San Francisco. It created a global speaker series called What She Said that features inspirational woman from fashion, music, tech and media.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2021

The first-ever hybrid ASAE Annual Meeting last week reached 3,200 association professionals, consultants and industry partners—500 at 10 half-day Community Pop-Ups and the rest through a virtual portal—with education, engagement opportunities and powerful keynotes. 30 at National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.,

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Just as every meeting holds the potential for great advances in understanding, relationships and wealth, every event professional could be the next superstar. Yet, according to informal research done by keynote speaker Thom Singer, 70 percent of people (by their own admission) are not realizing their true potential. Boston and London.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2017

To most, the idea of putting together a set of dates, a venue, a program, a speaker lineup, an education schedule, food and beverage orders, audiovisual packages, marketing materials and more is overwhelming, to say the least. 26 • Meeting Services Specialist. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Robyn Davis.

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Plan Your Meetings

JULY 30, 2018

So, despite all the hard work you’ve put in securing that famous keynote speaker, the terrific educational breakouts and the great networking opportunities, whether or not the attendee can actually attend may simply come down to dollars and cents. says Joan Eisenstodt, founder of Washington, D.C.-based

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States. In many popular U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

How the meetings industry is celebrating #GMID2023 Destinations across the United States are showing just how much #meetingsmatter. This year marks the sixth annual Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), hosted by U.S. It’s so vital that it’s worth celebrating, read below see ways meeting profs are doing just that.

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EventMB

JUNE 7, 2022

You really don’t need a car in Baltimore,” Finney, who also lives in the area, told Skift Meetings. Filling the Speaker List With Local Business Leaders. It often pays to host events in destinations with a bustling local market, but it’s not just the biggest metropolises that offer top-notch speakers and a ready-made attendee base.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

Alison Jo McKeithen, MBA, CMP, 38, works in Washington, D.C., How I got here: I worked at NMAC for nine years, starting as the meeting registrar. When I was promoted to meeting planner, I honed my event management skills. as conferences manager at NMAC. What I do: I educate leaders to stop the HIV epidemic.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 20, 2016

The first-ever ASM Microbe program — the American Society for Microbiology’s grand experiment in combining its General Meeting and Interscience Conference on Antimicrobrial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) into one new annual conference — wraps today. Look for my article about that in our September issue.). That’s been interesting.”

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Connect Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

This week’s Climate and Health Meeting at The Carter Center in Atlanta is a success story for environmental groups eager to get their message out amid a new political climate in Washington, D.C. The post Climate Change Meeting Back on in Atlanta appeared first on Connect Association.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Home to the country’s most educated population, Washington, D.C. , is where great minds gather for meetings in the technology, biotech/pharmaceutical, education, and medical sectors. There are copious reasons why hosting your next meeting in D.C. And in June, the World Gas Union took advantage of D.C.’s

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2020

For meeting organizers facing decisions about canceling meetings this year, one of the most painful aspects is the prospect of watching months of work go to waste. Canceling would not only have meant pulling the plug on TAGC, but on multiple GSA annual conferences, said Suzy Brown, CMP, GSA’s senior director of meetings.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 15, 2022

So it started as an event in Washington, D.C., And by that, I mean amazing speakers on stage, fantastic food, a really well designed environment, the best coffee you can buy and great ice cream for the afternoon break. Issa Rae was the first speaker we had and I asked if she had parting advice for everybody.

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Glow Global Events

JUNE 21, 2022

For some attendees, this may be the first time they’ve gone to a large meeting, festival, or convention in ages. For events with a more professional edge, focus on the content, with engaging speakers, short segments, and lots of opportunities for attendees to interact with hosts, presenters, and each other. The Great Outdoors.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2022

It was quite an impressive infrastructure, literally buried under the streets of Washington, D.C.”. Virtual events can be very stale if you treat them as just another Zoom meeting — especially in this case, where that Zoom meeting might be 10 hours a day for three days in a row,” Wohlitz said. Maintaining Viewer Interest.

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. Besides access to great networking opportunities and innovative content, the following 35 events will also provide attendees with great speaker lineups and the chance to travel to amazing locations! Washington D.C.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Meeting & Event Job Openings | January 2018. Meeting & Events Planner | Carlson Wagonlit Travel | Hartford, CT. Event Manager, External Speaker and Production | SpectraForce | Stamford, CT. Meetings & Events Manager | Marriott International | Bal Harbour, FL. Learn More. Danbury, CT.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. rst draft of a “Patients Included” charter, now used to set standards for patient involvement at meetings. on Friday, Sept.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Working Capital Moving the Annual Meeting to Washington, D.C., and international policies around venture capital, emerging markets, and innovation, NVCA revamped this year’s Annual Meeting, which traditionally had focused on investing and entrepreneurship, to more explicitly address politics. NVCA wasn’t fooling around.

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Stova

MARCH 20, 2023

After all, meeting with colleagues and other industry professionals face-to-face or virtually can be an incredibly valuable and worthwhile experience, no matter your goals. With an expected 14,000 meetings between Exhibitors & Buyers, AIME will deliver real value to anyone that attends in-person or virtually.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Naomi Clare has a portfolio filled with immersive events, ones where she and her team at Washington, D.C.–based Storycraft Lab designed one of its meeting formats, the Long Conversation, for Untethered, a virtual conference for events professionals in May. Here are two Clare shared with Convene. The Long Conversation.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As Gonzalez, a featured speaker at Destination Showcase in Washington, D.C. “Millennials and Gen Z grew up playing highly competitive video games, and now, they want to watch the best in the world play those games,” said Gary Gonzalez, managing partner and director of strategy at Seattle-based marketing agency Convoke.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 20, 2018

But there’s more to this future-ready city than high tech and cutting edge, and meeting planners are making the connection. Say hello to international service from London, Beijing, Frankfurt and Vancouver and domestic service from Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Looking for a breakout session with good taste?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 9, 2021

Ke wrote: “It has now become clear that meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift.”. For most associations, hosting meetings and conferences fall into their regular operations. Laura Kate Bender. We Have a Great Responsibility’. An Eco-Friendly Events Ecosystem.

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