Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Will our submission process yield the highest quality sessions or will we need to invite speakers who we know can address our learning priorities? High-quality learning is worthy of investing time and money. Submissions or curation? Tip: Conference organizers are increasingly embracing a combination of curation and submission.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Chang will offer a Thought Leader session at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 in January. I’m married to a physician, and she goes to traditional medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

Everything Olean was trying to do with ASM Microbe could be summed up in the program’s opening keynote speaker: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing health care and eliminating poverty around the world. That was the biggest challenge.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

CED LSC 2017, Credit CED. 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. ORGANIZER The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which uses the conference as part of its strategic-planning cycle. . 2017 Medical Innovation Summit. PDIC 2017 Pediatric Device Breakthrough Collaborative. April 19, Hilton Omaha.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The ambassador to Germany.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. China, Germany, India, and Japan, told Convene that members’ names and photos are often displayed online as speakers or members of organizing committees without their knowledge to give a fake conference a sense of legitimacy. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

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PCMA Convene

JULY 17, 2017

Forward March This past June, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) rallied at Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC) for their 2017 Biennial Convention. It launched in early 2017 and was operational in time for CFNU’s Biennial Convention , held at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC), June 5-9. .

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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