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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Endless Events

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Event Tech Podcast strives to make your life as an event planner easier, so we’re back at it! 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. Just recently, we launched an episode about hardware in the world of events.

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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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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2023

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC President, Schaumann Consulting Group, LLC For launching a certification for newcomers in the medical-meetings field Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, has had an outsized influence on the medical-meetings industry over the years, and she’s at it again.

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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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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

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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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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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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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A recent survey of more than 200 business-event planners by Global DMC Partners found that their top five challenges this year are adapting to higher costs; finding availability; budget management; timely approval from internal decisionmakers; and contract negotiations. Read every line closely” and be prepared to clarify or alter terms.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 24, 2025

Learn more about how ABTS can help host your medical meetings. ABTS Convention Services is the leader in end-to-end solutions for international medical meetings. Travel management, group housing, compliance advisory, and more are handled seamlessly for every meeting attendee and planner.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Trump prepares to take office, event organizers must consider the effects of his policies and appointments on the medical meetings industry. I’ve been getting many inquiries about the future of medical meetings under the new Trump administration. This may affect the budgets available for medical meetings and congresses.

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