PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

ABTS is laying the groundwork to prepare associations, so they don’t encounter massive losses to meetings with high numbers of international medical-technology sponsorships. When a medical-technology company buys floor space in the exhibit hall, it targets specific attendees. Davide Veglia, ABTS president.

Medical Meetings 69

Medical Meetings Meetings Sponsorships 2018 69

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2019

During Convening Leaders last month in Pittsburgh, I — along with about a dozen others, mostly medical meeting planners and a few industry suppliers — witnessed an open-heart surgery. There’s no direct connection between this program and medical meetings. Michelle Russell. Lawrence Convention Center.

Medical Meetings 40

Medical Meetings Education Association Meetings Hospitality 40

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.

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 2009 56

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. Medicine itself has undergone technological transformations before, but what’s happening now is different, according to Meskó, who also has a Ph.D. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.”

Medical Meetings 72

Medical Meetings Trade Shows Healthcare Conference 72