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Smart Moves at Explore St. Louis, BCD M&E and More

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Mgeni Mpolo Mgeni Mpolo, Pendry West Hollywood Pendry West Hollywood appoints Mpolo as director of sales & marketing. With over two decades of experience, he is well-equipped to oversee all aspects of sales and marketing, driving brand awareness and growth and achieving revenue goals across guestrooms, banquets and catering.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Louisville and More

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Before Choose Chicago, Anderson was regional director of marketing for The Peninsula Hotels. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Before joining TMG, Diamond worked as medical meetings project manager for MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. Darryl Diamond, CMP. Talley Management Group (TMG), Inc.,

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The IMEX America 2022 Recap

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Frankfurt was the first time I remember where people started saying, ‘We’re going to market toward the associate market.’ Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ This whole market was changing because so much money was being put into it. Now people are coming out loud and proud.”.

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

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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.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

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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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Event Case Theory: MGMA’s Leaders Conference

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Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers Swanson says the conference used to bring professionals of all types, like medical billers or coders, to the conference. “We We used to track them by saying, ‘For this low price of X you can come sit in these 10 sessions.’

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Barbara Connell, CMP Fellow

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As she approached graduation and began looking for jobs, she remembers, a male professor told her not to set her goals too high—Chicago was a major market, and he said she should search for starting television jobs in smaller cities. She wanted to be a TV anchor in the Chicago area. She wasn’t convinced.

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