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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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MAY 3, 2024

Staff meetings, sales meetings, educational programs, board meetings, national/international events—in-person or virtual or a combination thereof—any gathering of individuals can decide the fate of an organization.” But now, she says, resources are everywhere, from texts and classes, to online materials and study groups.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

So that’s kind of where we started the conversation, and then everything about the meeting spun off of that.” Swanson says it was heard around the medical practice business that employers were no longer funding line staff to go to face-to-face conferences. What about that line staff who are no longer in the Leaders Conference?

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. Reed outlined the approach the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting, held Dec. In 2020, like many other organizations, ASH’s Annual Meeting was fully virtual.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The average salary for all meeting professional respondents is nearly six figures: $98,089, more than $10,000 higher than the average overall 2020 annual compensation. In 2020, nearly nine out of 10 respondents said they were satisfied with the meetings profession; in 2022, only 65 percent said the same — a decrease of 22 percent.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

The 24th International AIDS Conference welcomed 8,000 people in person at the Palais des congrès de Montréal and another 1,000 for the virtual event online. Eva Blue/Tourisme Montréal). In 1989, Montréal served as the host city for the 5th International AIDS Conference.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I was encouraged by the conversation between DMO and association leaders, the first in a series of continuing roundtables we are planning on this topic, as they came up with ideas on ways to remain true to stakeholder values and organizational missions that conflict with meeting in red-state destinations. Seeing Double.

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