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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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

APRIL 26, 2023

The monthly virtual Community Conversations with the Independent Event Organizers (IEO) and Medical Meetings Organizers (MMO) have been quite helpful to me. During the height of the pandemic, I was a recipient of the Convening Leaders Independent Event Organizer or Small Business Owner Scholarship.

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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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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

For the May event, we kept the same dates and daily schedule of sessions because registrants had already blocked out that time to be away from their practices. It’s such a big meeting that we need the time to get all the virtual elements absolutely right for learners to have a great experience.

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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. Manage expectations about attendance.

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