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ARVO Conference in Seattle Opened Eyes to Lingering International Travel Challenges

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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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The IMEX America 2022 Recap

Endless Events

Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ Erbium is a registration platform that you can use to create a basic website and fill out registration forms for your event.”. Two, other than getting data passively, registration is one time you have someone so focused that they will give you so much data.

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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. “I’m

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How to Choose Event Technology, Should Cost be the Main Factor?

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Brandt explains, “when you’re dealing with registration services that are free or audience engagement platforms that are free or mobile apps that are free, you have to ask yourself, “How do they make their money?” It can be tempting to use free software to save your precious budget.

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

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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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Tablets And Events: Why It’s Time For You To Ditch The Binder!

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“One very effective use that I’ve seen of that is in some of the more high end financial and medical meetings that I’ve worked on, where there’s a little bit higher security and you don’t want people tweeting things and you don’t want people putting things on Instagram and things like that.

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‘The Hugs Felt More Genuine’ at This In-Person Health-Care Meeting

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What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetingsmedical meetings have been the most skittish,” Heard said. There’s the sentiment that seems to be out there among a lot of medical groups [that gathering in person is] sending the wrong message to the public.

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