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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. It was the first time since 2014 that the economy had experienced a growth of 3 percent or more for two straight quarters. 2014 App development and deployment. economy’s growth was outpacing expectations.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As It’s not 9-to-5 anymore.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Meet Minneapolis first learned about Apimondia in early 2014, when leaders in the American Beekeeping Federation (ABF) approached the destination about bidding on the 2019 congress. First, however, Meet Minneapolis had to wait for the ABF and the Eastern Apicultural Society — Apimondia’s U.S. Earn one hour of CEU credit.

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Convene’s 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Event-supply rentals topped the list of outsourced items in most surveys since 2007, except in 2014, and again this year, when event-app development and deployment took the lead. Small Meetings. The overall average is 11 months, compared to 10 months in the 2015 survey and 9 months in the 2014 survey.

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