Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

However, before you jump on the mobile conference app bandwagon, think about what you really need. Here’s a quick rundown on 26 of the most popular and best mobile conference apps, in alphabetical order. Perfect for: Conferences that involve lots of networking and matchmaking among attendees. CrowdCompass from Cvent.

Event Apps 78

Event Apps Conference Social Media Trade Shows 78

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. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape. Meeting planners should ask vendor partners what they are up against, too.

Healthcare 111

Healthcare Hospitality Negotiating Medical Meetings 111

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

How could you replace a printed conference booklet? What if my venue doesn’t have Wi-Fi?” Medical meetings? Then the pandemic hit and every event app, registration platform, innumerable AV and production companies and venues did the “P-word,” adding video presentation and chat capability. There’s an app for that.

Event Apps 105

Event Apps Medical Meetings Contracts Financial 105

SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Partnering with top medical communications companies is an important step toward ensuring that your next medical conference or event is a success. Key services medical communications companies offer When it comes to medical event planning, you want to ensure you’re selecting the best MedComms agency for the job.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare 2002 Education Consulting 246

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. Discuss response strategy with venue and staff. Plan Like an EMT. Determine the local public health requirements that need to be implemented.

Education 140

Education Hotels Venues Meetings 140

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.

Meetings 98

Meetings 2021 Medical Meetings 2020 98

PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

Medical Meetings 55

Medical Meetings Healthcare 2016 2015 55

MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. And the Phoenix Convention Center sits in the middle of a walkable downtown filled with independent restaurants, craft brewpubs and live music venues. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty.

Medical Meetings 50

Medical Meetings Healthcare 2009 Transportation 50

SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Jan. The boutique conference has built quite the following , drawing the most influential managers in the medical meetings market. Dominguez’s presentation on Feb.

Medical Meetings 40

Medical Meetings Healthcare Education Speakers 40

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

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. As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. Another Cup of … Modafinil?

2018 101

2018 2001 Tourism 2017 101

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.

2009 64

2009 2014 Conference Wireless 64

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Part of SPN’s model involved live events, as well as the idea for a seminal annual conference that would connect Midwest entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and each other. “[SPN] SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6. The format was a success.

Meetings 74

Meetings 2015 2009 2008 74

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).

2016 73

2016 2017 Speakers Conference 73

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?

2017 69

2017 Education Hospitality Meetings 69

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.

2013 40

2013 Sustainability Conference Education 40

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.”.

Conference 94

Conference Medical Meetings Education 2017 94

SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

The reality is that a good planner can produce an amazing event in any venue—not just the fancy ones. just as the difference between a good event and a great event can be finding the perfect venue, finding event technology where their 20% difference lines up with your 20% difference can make…all the difference in the world.

Tech 83

Tech Financial Medical Meetings Event Apps 83

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. They’re often reflected onstage and in the hallways of convention venues.

Meetings 56

Meetings Social Media Conference 2016 56

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Choose a great destination and venue. 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. Off the field, a fabulous glitter- and drone-powered halftime show and controversial commercials had social media buzzing.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Medical Meetings Site Selections Healthcare 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