SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Hotels are not as flexible as in the past and can truly demand a higher spend for better space/rooms offerings.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. The Greater Phoenix area’s combination of affordability, accessibility, proximity and authority sets this destination apart for medical meetings.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. Hotels and resorts bask in near-perpetual sunshine. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Here are five reasons to book your next medical meeting in Phoenix: 1.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2020

Many meeting planners and are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. Work with hotel or venue to define their guidelines. Plan Like an EMT. Determine the local public health requirements that need to be implemented. Check for updates from local public health resources frequently.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 6, 2024

Meanwhile, downtown Tampa—where the city’s convention center and several big hotels reside—narrowly dodged significant flooding, as the Hillsborough River alongside the downtown district crested just below the top of its seawall. However, Tampa International Airport saw more than 150 flights cancelled on Sunday. It was cancelled.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The world’s largest emergency medicine conference, the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Annual Scientific Assembly, convened Oct. What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetings … medical meetings have been the most skittish,” Heard said.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

It’s a fundamental technique of microbiology, and also the animating principle behind ASM Microbe, the brand-new annual conference that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) built from strands of two other annual conferences: its General Meeting and its Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

When the Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) bought land adjacent to its Las Vegas headquarters about 10 years ago, the purchase was regarded as an investment. And meetings are still the primary way to do that. Which is why WVC isn’t the only such group building its own conference space. . Oquendo Center in Las Vegas.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. When businesses, hotels and meeting organizers are doing everything they can to ensure the safety of those who choose to attend, they should not be subject to lawsuits.

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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. You go into a hotel and people have pre-thought everything that you could possibly need, and given you control of your experience. Design can take many forms.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hotel sourcing and research. No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Working with CVBs, hotel, convention-center staff.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2017

Sometimes conference themes are so aspirational that there’s no direct correlation between the message and the event programming. Not so with the 10th World Congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, held last Nov. 11–13, at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel in New Delhi, India.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The annual conference was a good solid performer, but a pretty conventional show — mostly male, mostly white, mostly older, with many exclusive events,” said Kathron Compton, AIA’s senior vice president for brand and engagement. “It It felt typical of every conference I’d ever attended.”. Architects are a unique breed.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. billion in hotel expenditures, $935 million in tax revenues and $124.1 million in hotel tax revenues. At the boutique hotel, groups can indulge in cosmopolitan dining at Moromito Waikiki.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. If you trust the internet, you might expect to have a hard time finding a hotel room in Manchester this coming May. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Our smallest division, Systems Integrations (think installing conference room technology), was the only one bringing in revenue. It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. So, now what? How do we save our business?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. May 8–11, 2019 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Thus, we pitched the idea to the meeting planners and they loved it.”.

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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

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. It’s called unconscious bias. “Biases can begin at a very young age.”

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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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attendees included representatives from Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, AccorHotels, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Choice Hotels International, Freeman, Host Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Universal Parks & Resorts.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With outdoor dining and entertainment space Avenida Houston, major convention center renovations and hotel openings, Houston did its best to prepare to handle the influx of travelers. In a press conference prior to the game, she fueled even more chatter by stating that she wanted her performance to promote inclusion and equality.

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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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