PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained. If you’re a medical-meeting professional, this directly affects how you structure your conferences and conventions, and Johnston shares his ideas about that in this month’s cover story, “We Don’t Have a Lecture Hall.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2022

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So medical meetings have a different set of standards and requirements than say an internal corporate meeting sales meeting for somebody that sells widgets, or an insurance meeting is going to have different requirements than that medical meeting.”. It’s going to help you meet your goals.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

While it’s critical to prepare for once-a-career issues like hurricanes or terrorism, it’s the “everyday disasters” that meeting professionals have to manage wisely onsite that can make or break a meeting. Attend this webinar to learn: Smart, think-on-your-feet tactics when problems arise at your meetings. Sponsored by: .

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

For the planner, we’re trying to be more strategic because, especially for smaller or shorter meetings, they take up a lot of space, come at an enormous cost, and take a long amount of time to set up. Kaur said delegates at medical meetings value the opportunity to learn about new treatments and devices.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

“The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said. While we often try to divide them between for-profits and nonprofits, the reality is that the goals of all medical meeting planners are quite similar.”. ‘A A Combination of Human and Machine Learning’. Quant relies on machine learning to do the heavy lifting.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

Bizzabo recently published a list of the top 60 event professionals to follow on Twitter based on their event coverage and overall digital presence—and we’re happy to see that lots of familiar faces within the Smart Meetings family made the list. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

That evening, ESC’s leadership consulted on the phone and quickly determined to go ahead with ESC Congress 2017. Despite the increase in unthinkable acts, Dorian noted that the meetings and events industry has come together to chart the course forward. I thought, whatever happens, we have to go through with this.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

CUTTING EDGE The idea of breakthrough thinking comes from Gap International, a management- consulting firm that works with UNMC on leadership development. FACE TO FACE “We have built a great deal of what I would call coffee time into the meeting,” Gold said. It’s more the interaction where there’s power.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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.”. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Statistics like these raise a question that the meetings industry must answer: If unconscious biases are hurting employees in offices, what are they doing to attendees at conferences and events? It’s called unconscious bias. Collect new ideas.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Will the incoming Trump Administration affect the meetings industry? That said, medical meetings may be among the meetings most likely to be impacted. Among those peering into a crystal ball to attempt to pinpoint the future for medical meetings is Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC. What does he see?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Trump prepares to take office, event organizers must consider the effects of his policies and appointments on the medical meetings industry. I’ve been getting many inquiries about the future of medical meetings under the new Trump administration. This may affect the budgets available for medical meetings and congresses.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Denise Silber, who was born in the United States but has spent most of her career working in Europe, is the founder and president of Paris-based Basil Strategies, a digital health-communications consultancy. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

She turned to Community By Design — a New York City–based consulting firm that specializes in precisely those kinds of challenges — to help design the summit. The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) is a registered trademark of the Events Industry Council. Scott Weiss ‘We want to. really challenge. assumptions.’.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. 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.

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