Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, putting line staff in medical practices next to leaders created a dissonance with our attendees, and in the content and discussions we were fostering resonated with some but not with others, and vice versa. It’s more of a facilitated dialogue between members and attendees of the show, as opposed to the lecture.”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Attendees want engaging content—and they want it now! Summary: Are Your Attendees Engaged? Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. While there are many more webinars from the year you can watch, here are six (and their respective summarized stories) that we’ve curated that sums up the year quite well.

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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.

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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. “I’m

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ Data can help you better understand your attendees. Creating excellent logic questions will help you better understand your attendees so you can better design your events.”. “We’re seeing people actually admitting their niches,” says Brandt.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 20, 2024

.” — Josh Henry , CMP, Meetings Manager and Diversity & Inclusion Lead, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics When it comes to conferences with exhibits — is the actual exhibit space always necessary? Is there value there, for not only the attendees, but for the exhibitors themselves?

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So medical meetings have a different set of standards and requirements than say an internal corporate meeting sales meeting for somebody that sells widgets, or an insurance meeting is going to have different requirements than that medical meeting.”. It’s going to help you meet your goals.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 6, 2024

While there were no events at the Charleston Area Convention Center and none scheduled until August 14, a 150-person medical meeting, the Urgent Care Symposium, was scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the Hilton Garden Inn Charleston Waterfront/Downtown. It was cancelled.

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Convene by PCMA

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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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 26, 2021

She wrote: In the tech world, some larger conferences (like CES) are coming back in person, sometimes with vaccine requirements for attendees, while smaller meetings are still opting to stay virtual. Other specialties, however, like the American Academy of Neurology and the American College of Cardiology, opted for virtual meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They look oh-so-much better from a floor-to-ceiling meeting room window. To get yourself and your attendees there, you just have to find your perfect postcard city and then make the booking. These properties make it easy to gather among views remember Those amazing landscapes that you see on postcards?

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Nearly half of attendees in a recent survey said they fell asleep or felt drowsy during a meeting. Hilton’s Meet with Purpose program gives planners plug-and-play menu and activity ideas designed to wake them right up. read more.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While COVID forced the event online in 2020 , and it was well received by attendees, the organization — which represents more than 38,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents, and medical students — was strongly in favor of returning to a face-to-face event. Next: ACEP22 Scientific Assembly, Oct. 1-4, San Francisco.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

However, “make sure you are really thorough in the contract—if something is not in the contract, you are not going to get it,” said Becky Cavanaugh, HMCC, program director, global medical meetings and events for Cadent powered by Syneos Health. Read every line closely” and be prepared to clarify or alter terms.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2021

Indeed, scientific modeling by Exhibitions and Conferences Alliance and Epistemix found that in-person PMEs pose minimal risk of Covid-19 transmission to attendees: a mere.001 001 percent, to be precise. What’s to Be Done. According to U.S. A thriving travel industry—and the broader U.S.

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 2, 2022

The clients, who are frequently national associations, usually subsidize all or part of the childcare expenses for the attendees. I see this in my own family – my daughter and her husband are both surgeons, and their decisions on which medical meetings to attend are determined by what’s available for the kids.”.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I mean, I was surprised how much I’ve enjoyed having a stylus, having a pen on these devices” How Tablets Impact Your Attendee Experience. “There’s a really good use case for attendees to have tablets as well”, says Brandt. I’m really excited because of the idea of multi-tasking abilities.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

Knight: We had to make a very quick shift in February and March with our in-person portfolio; the two events we moved online in April and May had more attendees than what we expected in person, which was promising. MeetingsNet: The AAFP annual meeting is scheduled for October in Chicago, and you generally get about 5,000 attendees.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 12, 2016

Check out these creative ideas for getting attendees past the mid-afternoon slump and through a long meeting day with energy and good humor. read more.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Long wait times and inflationary pressure linger at in-person-only medical meeting The arrival in Seattle of 11,631 attendees for the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) conference in May was the culmination of a logistical struggle to return to bringing the world of eye doctors together at 2019 levels.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 1, 2016

Merrick Rosenberg urged Pharma Forum attendees to understand their own communication style, recognize the styles of others, and use that knowledge to create better relationships. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 29, 2016

Two presenters at the recent Global Business Travel Association Convention say the same focus has not been turned on meeting attendees. Duty of care practices are well established for individual employees traveling the world for their companies. read more.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attendees included representatives from Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, AccorHotels, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Choice Hotels International, Freeman, Host Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Universal Parks & Resorts.

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