Unique Venues

AUGUST 15, 2024

Conferences and association meetings are pivotal for professional development, networking, and knowledge sharing. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Measuring Event Outcomes Attendance Numbers One of the most straightforward metrics for evaluating the success of a conference is attendance numbers.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You can’t make a list of meetings industry thought leaders without including Michael Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International. And when you think about in-demand educators, Dominguez is at the top of that list, too, with his data-driven sessions detailing the meeting and incentive-travel landscape.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2018

Late last year, the association launched its own small and more targeted conference for its medical and scientific community by working closely with its members — and with its host destination to leverage its knowledge assets. However, it became clear to the association that more breakout content was needed for a number of specialties.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 26, 2025

Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, is more than just an esteemed educational institutionits your go-to venue for hosting exceptional events. Whether youre planning a corporate conference, social gathering, religious celebration, or association meeting, Purdue offers the perfect space to suit your needs.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 27, 2023

asked Jennifer Mammele , manager, conference & events, Merchant Advisory Group in the PCMA Catalyst forum. After each session at our conference, we ask attendees to rate the session topic, speakers, length of session, etc. At our recent marketing & sales conference, the audience was comprised of marketing directors and above.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 23, 2019

Corporate and association meetings often leave a positive impact across a destination that goes beyond simple financial benefit. The results can be especially fruitful when at least some of an event’s content is developed in coordination with local universities, associations, businesses, labor unions, or other entities.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

based medical conferences — and to continue to do so for years to come. Medical conferences should brace themselves for an impact,” Andrade said. No longer will a conference merely be vetted as in the past — an entire procedural change must take place, she added. Davide Veglia, ABTS president.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In October 2020, AIM Group led the Federation of Family Paediatricians (FIMP) into a 3D world with the 3D FIMP House — the first fully digital annual conference for the association. These award-winning events wouldn’t have been possible without the company’s focus on collaboration, a business model that grew out of the pandemic. “We

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Event Industry News

MARCH 29, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. These upgrades will ensure BMA House’s place as a leading London hybrid venue. Click here to read more.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 6, 2022

Members have exclusive access to a majority of the APA’s conferences and online classes. If you are searching for an association which boasts global connections and a diverse community of event professionals, look no further than the American Planning Association. Meeting Professionals International (MPI).

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

We are reaching the point where this technology is becoming more affordable and attainable, which means that meetings and conferences could see practical applications in educational programs, product demos and speeches. What does that mean for those whose business is to plan meetings, seminars and conferences?

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Are you one of the more than 1,000 association meeting professionals attending the California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE) Holiday Spectacular at Sacramento Convention Center this week? The conference is a once-a-year chance to see all of your friends and find new solutions. At the Conference.

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Event Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

The CHS Group, in partnership with the wider West Midland meetings and events industry, has launched a celebratory week for event professionals. The week coincides with the inaugural CHS Birmingham Show (26 th October), and will be made up of satellite networking, educational and entertainment sessions across the region.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 22, 2024

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Located in the heart of Downtown Cleveland, the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland offers more than 390,000 square feet of flexible exhibit and meeting space for conventions, tradeshows, meetings, conferences, and special events.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 30, 2016

The importance—or lack thereof—of having a diverse speaker lineup was the topic of a pretty lively online conversation during a livestreamed session at the 2016 Professional Convention Management Association Education Conference. read more.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Heather Wakefield, 39, works remotely in Nashville, Tennessee, as a s enior manager of education and events at Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. What I do: I am a results-oriented, event and education professional with more than 10 years of experience in healthcare nonprofit associations.

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StraussCA

JULY 5, 2024

Value of The Meeting One of the value propositions that associations have provided since the beginning of time is the ability to connect members with similar interests and/or challenges, bringing them together to share experiences and learn from each other.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 28, 2016

But the law’s language is vague and open to interpretation, giving it the potential to constrain a larger group of foreign charities, trade associations, professional societies, and overseas higher-education institutions. based associations will rethink their activities in China.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m using my strongest skills in meeting and event planning, so I kind of took a winding route, but it’s a really, really great fit for me. Claire Abrams My whole career’s been in association meeting planning for dental, medical, or commercial associations.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 27, 2016

Meetings are up, and so are demands for cutting costs, according to a session livestreamed from PCMA's Education Conference. read more.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We are preparing for fewer European attendees as a result of new European regulations restricting the sponsorship of physicians to attend conferences in the U.S. Types: In 2017, respondents held an average of approximately 15 committee meetings, 11 training sessions, 9 seminars, 5 board meetings, and 3 other types of meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

It will just be completely normal for a conference to have a digital journey beforehand, to have an in-person experience, and connection supported by more digital tools with remote attendance, and then more follow-up. That’s just going to be a “conference” and no one’s going to call it a “hybrid conference.”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

MPI Minneapolis will be meeting in person at Delta Hotels Minneapolis from 1-5p.m. to cover the state of the meetings industry and post-Covid experiences, featuring experts from Meet Minneapolis, Experience Rochester, and local and regional meetings industry associations.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Meanwhile, here comes PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties program — supported by the PCMA Education Foundation and Visit Seattle — to once again blow away whatever generational stereotype you’re nursing. I’ve had many great moments, but if I have to mention one in particular, that would be the last day of our conference in Japan this year.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019. You have to eat the elephant in small bites.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

Role play The average salary for an association executive is $108,669; association meeting professional, $77,205; corporate meeting professional, $84,527; government meeting professional, $70,000; independent meeting professional, $81,944; and education/nonprofit meeting professional, $71,389.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

Role play The average salary for an association executive is $108,669; association meeting professional, $77,205; corporate meeting professional, $84,527; government meeting professional, $70,000; independent meeting professional, $81,944; and education/nonprofit meeting professional, $71,389.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Pay plus experience The average salary for meeting professionals with 1–3 years of experience is $53,750; 4–5 years, $62,278; 6–8 years, $68,641; 9–10 years, $70,880; and 10-plus years, $92,007. Education Sixty-five percent of respondents have earned a college degree; 12 percent have an advanced degree.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2019

There’s no direct connection between this program and medical meetings. It’s not marketed to cardiovascular associations meeting in Pittsburgh, and it’s not a live-streaming opportunity. But all of us participants formed our own takeaways, some professional and some deeply personal.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As conference education trumps the exhibit hall experience at many association meetings, or creeps into your trade show experience to create a solutions-driven, holistic experience for your attendees, upping your game with session titles, descriptions, and learning objectives has become more important than ever.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. based 360 Live Media, whose clients include medical associations. Bertelan Meskó.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In 2015, respondents held an average of approximately 14 committee meetings, 10 training sessions, 9 seminars, 7 board meetings, and 5 other types of meetings. Sixty-eight percent of respondents (compared to 62 percent in the 2015 survey) report that they are booking their small meetings more than six months out.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. Not only that, but “we were still a decade removed from the delivery of online education.” Navy and U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

–based Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) held its annual European conference. This was the first CASE Europe conference held outside of the United Kingdom, where most of CASE’s European members are based. And conferences may be our best hope for creating change. The same thing happens at conferences.

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