Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Read More : Medical Meetings: Temperature Check Ferguson says it’s something her team has wanted to do for years, as it’s important to bring in new and emerging talent. “We The attendees welcomed these emerging leaders and in fact endorsed many of the leaders to apply.”

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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. So that’s kind of where we started the conversation, and then everything about the meeting spun off of that.”

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 27, 2024

For a successful medical program, you want a destination that has state-of-the-art events facilities and strong attendee appeal—plus a world class medical research community. Tampa Bay is the cure for the common meeting with the added benefit of a rich array of amenities that make any meeting a breeze.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 23, 2024

ABTS is the only provider of white glove travel, lodging, concierge, and compliance services for international attendees of major medical association events, ABTS is right where you need them to be. Building on on-going relationships with cities, CVBs, travel agencies, and sponsors, ABTS meets your needs where you are.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2021

Travel Association believes professional meetings and events (PME) suffer from being lumped in with other gatherings—and is working to change that. Travel Association has kicked off its “ Let’s Meet There ” campaign, unveiled at MPI’s WEC 2021 , to further propel the comeback of PMEs. Currently, about 35 percent of U.S. The post U.S.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

There’s a lot of information out there about how to better your career as a meeting professional. Throughout the year, Smart Meetings has invited professionals from different corners of the event planning world to impart their knowledge. Attendees want engaging content—and they want it now! Summary: Are Your Attendees Engaged?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It featured seven planners and suppliers who offered their perspectives and advice for meeting organizers to get what they need while staying on budget. A multi-year or multi-event deal could get you what you need” both in that moment and for those future meetings. Read every line closely” and be prepared to clarify or alter terms.

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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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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Is there value there, for not only the attendees, but for the exhibitors themselves? For the planner, we’re trying to be more strategic because, especially for smaller or shorter meetings, they take up a lot of space, come at an enormous cost, and take a long amount of time to set up. Are we doing them because we’ve always done them?

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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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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

getting flooded by Debby, some meetings could have their itineraries cut short—and face attrition fees. along with a few meetings that were caught in its path. Starting on Friday, August 9, nearly 1,000 people are set to attend the Georgia Forestry Association’s three-day annual meeting at the Savannah Convention Center ( below ).

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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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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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Skift Meetings

JUNE 2, 2022

While the pandemic wreaked havoc on the event industry, companies that provide childcare at meetings are among those who suffered the most from the lack of live events. The clients, who are frequently national associations, usually subsidize all or part of the childcare expenses for the 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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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

We have been very focused on our journals, which are the most utilized of our CME activities, and our in-person meetings and self-study packages. The partnership gives us the ability to try some different formats of online learning in order to meet the needs of our learners. What did you have to do to make that happen?

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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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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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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The $22 billion contributed by the meetings industry to local, state and federal taxes each year is dependent on the free flow of travel. Those in attendance underscored the importance of international inbound travel as a way to reduce the trade deficit, create jobs ( the meetings industry supports 1.1 To make that point, U.S.

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