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

MAY 11, 2017

Life Sciences and Health Care — The 650-acre Lake Nona Medical City is making a name for itself as the home of innovation within the biotechnology and life-sciences industries, with a collection of state-of-the-art health-care, research, and medical-training facilities. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona. cities (KPMG, 2016).

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Breakthroughs in health care that sounded like science fiction just a few years ago are rapidly becoming reality — and can be expected to have an impact on medical meetings. Eventually the technology will be used to manufacture everything from organs to medicine to medical equipment.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

This article was penned prior to the 2016 election. This will cause more private practices to consider partnering or seeking employment with hospital systems or networks. Helping your members navigate their business and succession planning will become a pressing and ongoing need. Uncertain Times.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Frequently in the news amid unfolding at-sea rescues of African immigrants trying to reach Europe, this Sicilian island has been the focus of several documentaries on Europe’s refugee crisis, one that aired in June on cable television station HBO, and an award-winning 2016 Italian documentary, “Fire at Sea.”

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. I was both electrified and a little stunned by what I learned — who knew that nearly half of the hospitals in Rwanda receive medical supplies by drone?

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 23, 2017

Not so long ago, Austin was the only major city in the United States without a medical school, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) was one of only a few tier-one research universities without one. That all changed in the summer of 2016, when UT’s Dell Medical School opened its doors to its first class of students.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

2017 Medical Innovation Summit. 2016 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Convention Center for Susan Bernat of Innovations. 2016 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Convention Center for Susan Bernat of Innovations. I’m not a big believer in putting hundreds of people in a room and lecturing to them.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In October, Mayor Emanuel and Whitaker announced record tourism figures for the first three quarters of 2016, for both leisure and group segments. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo. It hasn’t taken long to see results, either. San Francisco. In 2015, 5.8

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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. “We laugh that it’s like remodeling a kitchen when you say you’re just going to bump it out a little,” said David Little, CEO of the Oquendo Center. But board members had decided, ‘Let’s go big.’

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Beyond providing inspiration, Big Omaha — whose 2016 sponsors included Yahoo!, “We see people from corporations, from small businesses, from startups, to being founders or in marketing, or on the business desk, or sales, or design.” AT&T, and the Greater Omaha Chamber — also serves as a place where startups and investors can connect.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. Being in medical-meeting planning yields a high level of satisfaction, because I know that our conference provides our membership with education that is critical to improving orthopedic patient care. . What’s the best day you’ve had in the industry so far?

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

wrote in a 2016 article for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science, that he experienced “the thrill of being asked to present at a conference in a far-flung land. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. In fact, a veteran U.S.-based

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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. Our brains are hard-wired to favor certain categories of people while doubting others.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

The firm was founded in 2016 by Allie Mahler, who, along with partner Scott Weiss, had previously worked at IDEO, the well-known global design firm based in Palo Alto, California. She turned to Community By Design — a New York City–based consulting firm that specializes in precisely those kinds of challenges — to help design the summit.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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.

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