PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

Orlando has earned bragging rights for its thriving entrepreneurial culture and booming technology scene, which makes it a draw for business events across a broad swath of industries. This “living lab” is a major reason why Orlando now hosts 40 percent of HCEA’s top 50 largest medical meetings. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

An AGU grand prize winners presents his data visualization on NASA’s “hyperwall” at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Epnac Photography).

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Read on to find out why we expect more diversity in business-event speakers, why we think relationships will be key to improved event security, and why we are following the rise of artificial intelligence and cognitive-enhancing drugs. Diversifying the Stage. David McMillin, Editor . David McMillin, Editor . From Congrats!

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

While this scenario tragically plays out all too often in real life around the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the emergency situation has been re-enacted at a simulation during a medical event — the SIAARTI (Italian Society for Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care) Academy — that has taken place there for the past two years.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

The goal for ASM Microbe 2016 was 10,000 to 12,000 attendees, drawn as evenly as possible from the General Meeting and ICAAC communities. We really do have a very, very diverse constituency, and the challenge of any annual meeting is trying to be all things to all people.”. OPENING KEYNOTE: Meet Bill Gates.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Part of SPN’s model involved live events, as well as the idea for a seminal annual conference that would connect Midwest entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and each other. “[SPN] Beyond providing inspiration, Big Omaha — whose 2016 sponsors included Yahoo!, SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? “We

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

In 2016, the center hosted 3,500 people in 80 medical labs—including rentals to groups working in human medicine. The conference center attached to ASA headquarters, for example, includes an adjacent museum dedicated to the history of anesthesia that also can be used for receptions and special events.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This is our fourth class,” said PCMA President and CEO Deborah Sexton, “and with each one, we are struck by the passion and insights these individuals bring to the business-events community. HOLLY LAMMERT. The people!

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Below are a few meeting-related observations about the top 10 cities listed among Conde Nast’s Best Big Cities and why they are so valuable to the meetings and events industry. Best Big Cities That Are Also Best Meeting Cities. There will be five times more meeting space and 27 new loading docks. In 2015, 5.8

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Let these four events show you. ORGANIZER The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which uses the conference as part of its strategic-planning cycle. 2017 Medical Innovation Summit. 2016 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Convention Center for Susan Bernat of Innovations. April 19, Hilton Omaha.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries. Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate.

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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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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Late one Thursday night last March, attendees at Microsoft’s 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco looked forward to unwinding after a full program. So it’s no surprise that at the end of the event, we walk out with people we already knew.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

In her role as the executive director of the Impact Travel Alliance (ITA), a nonprofit organization linking global travel professionals with world-changing ambitions, Kelley Louise oversees a network that hosts approximately 20 educational events around the world each year, including ITA’s flagship Travel + SocialGood Summit.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Thiago Araujo Thiago Araujo, BCD Meetings & Events BCD Meetings & Events welcomes Araujo as global sustainability director. She joined Destinations International (DI) in 2016, and earlier served as executive assistant to the president & CEO at Choose Chicago. He now joins St.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Nichols’ pioneering writing in the field — she edited the first version of Professional Meeting Management , published in 1985 — turned her into a teacher, she said. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.)

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