PCMA Convene

MARCH 25, 2019

As a result, medical meetings are finding other ways to demonstrate their value to current and prospective exhibitors. From beacon-collected data to lead scanners to third-party evaluations, here’s how two medical meetings are tackling the exhibitor ROI challenge. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

Medical Meetings 89

Medical Meetings Meetings Education Consulting 89

PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

This “living lab” is a major reason why Orlando now hosts 40 percent of HCEA’s top 50 largest medical meetings. Lake Nona also acts as a mini speakers bureau, working directly with medical meeting organizers to help them book expert speakers in a variety of specialties. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona.

Medical Meetings 55

Medical Meetings Healthcare 2016 2015 55

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the face of all the chatter about AR, VR, and the rest of the tech acronyms that have the potential to reinvent the event on-site experience, event organizers will get back to basics to reevaluate something that doesn’t require a headset or data collection: the names on the program. The tech industry and every industry must do better.”.

2018 101

2018 2001 Tourism 2017 101

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. With staff based here, it’s easy for more of them to engage in these face-to-face meetings.” . But board members had decided, ‘Let’s go big.’ And 70,000 square feet later, we did.” There is no model for this.”.

2009 64

2009 2014 Conference Wireless 64

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, however, the region’s flourishing startup culture was a story that needed telling, which is why, in 2008, they founded an online publication called Silicon Prairie News (SPN) — taking its name from a tech-friendly area that includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.

Meetings 74

Meetings 2015 2009 2008 74

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. High(ish) Tech.

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 2009 56