SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. or options don’t exist—those linens or new conference tables may just not be available. You can subscribe to the magazine here. The post Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are a key part of the AAAS Annual Meeting — and all attendees are encouraged to have fun with badge ribbons. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

How could you replace a printed conference booklet? Medical meetings? A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. There was a surprising amount of hand-wringing, however. What if your phone battery dies? What if my venue doesn’t have Wi-Fi?”

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Especially in medicine and health care, maybe the most incremental yet desperate-to-change-the-world field of all — how would you build a conference specifically dedicated to groundbreaking, trailblazing, lifesaving innovations? 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. Wellness Panel at the Breakthrough Thinking Conference.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Alice Brouhard was no stranger to medical conferences. But she never imagined her family’s life could be so deeply affected by not just one conference, but two — one that she attended and the other that she founded and organized. That totally, totally came from the conference, which was great.”. POWERFULLY IN PERSON.

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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. Those hard workers lost their livelihoods, customers and revenues through no fault of their own. We have also lost the mental health that comes with anticipation of travel.

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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. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

After studying 100 or so meetings’ profit-and-loss statements in great detail, I can confirm that this expense line item varies greatly.Some organizations spend as little as 2 percent and have a very healthy conference product, while others rack up spending in the 20- to 25-percent range and are on life support.

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Marketing Meetings Food and Beverage Advertising 51

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Chicago will be featured in the December issue of Smart Meetings magazine. Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo.

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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

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

MAY 1, 2018

Louise, who lives in Brooklyn, said she makes an effort to make this summit into “more than just your average travel conference.” At a lot of conferences, people may learn something new, she said, but they also end up in a lot of sessions that aren’t necessarily relevant. 4 Share the Story. What happens next?

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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. For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals.

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