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The Power of Advocacy: How Two Medical Conferences Empowered a Family with Disabilities

PCMA Convene

One attendee urged her to start a Change.org petition to draw Apple’s attention to the problem, and offered help on the social-media front from her agency Trinity Services, a support organization for people with disabilities. In 2015, Apple emailed Brouhard to open a dialogue. POWERFULLY IN PERSON.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. Globalizing Knowledge.

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