PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When Kenes Group , a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, shifted to hosting virtual events for its medical and science groups this past April, company leaders knew they needed more insight into the minds of their health-care practitioner (HCP) attendees. So what did come as a surprise?

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

Medical meetings? Every time I swore I’d never try another demo, I’d be treated to something new that built upon the event apps that had come before. In Stage 2, if a niche was available, someone was there to fill it. There’s an app for that. Scientific? We got your posters right here, digitally.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

Companies like SAP, Microsoft, the Association of Financial Professionals, and the American Academy of Family Physicians keep coming back to the city. This “living lab” is a major reason why Orlando now hosts 40 percent of HCEA’s top 50 largest medical meetings. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After all, it’s not just about patient safety but also about protecting your company from expensive liability claims and financial losses. #7) To determine the success of your medical events, you need to be able to track key event metrics and create reports. 7) Reporting (registration, attendance, engagement). 4) InEvent.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Their unparalleled customer service ensures clients fully leverage the benefits of MCG solutions, resulting in improved financial and clinical outcomes. By harnessing artificial intelligence and technology solutions enriched with objective clinical expertise, MCG enables clients to streamline and prioritize their operations.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What I’ve just noticed is, in terms of starting live, face-to-face meetings … medical meetings have been the most skittish,” Heard said. There’s the sentiment that seems to be out there among a lot of medical groups [that gathering in person is] sending the wrong message to the public. “No.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings. The ASH Whiteboard Wall brought ideas shared by participants to visual life at the virtual annual meeting. For medical meetings, we have an embargo in play for many sessions. At the end of the day, that’s impacting the investment equation.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

automakers—and GM specifically—during the 2009 financial crisis. Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. I’ve been blessed to have learned from some of the best in the business. What needs to happen to preserve the industry?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

We’re working to align with some of the industries, or knowledge-based groups, that we have strengths in,” she said — including aircraft assembly, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. Frankfurt is Germany’s financial epicenter, for example, consistently attracting programs such as Euro Finance Week, held each November.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 21, 2019

“One very effective use that I’ve seen of that is in some of the more high end financial and medical meetings that I’ve worked on, where there’s a little bit higher security and you don’t want people tweeting things and you don’t want people putting things on Instagram and things like that.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Benchmark Hospitality International and Gemstone Hotels & Resorts have merged to become BENCHMARK, a global hospitality company with a new corporate identity and three distinct hotel collections. read more.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Etouches is aiming to make measurement of a meeting’s return on investment both more simple and more powerful, through continuous measurement and ways to get flagging metrics back on track. read more.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 12, 2016

Check out these creative ideas for getting attendees past the mid-afternoon slump and through a long meeting day with energy and good humor. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 29, 2016

Two presenters at the recent Global Business Travel Association Convention say the same focus has not been turned on meeting attendees. Duty of care practices are well established for individual employees traveling the world for their companies. read more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 20, 2016

Oscar Munoz understands that by the time you step on board an airplane, “you’re frankly pissed.” He’s determined to make it better. United’s new premium Polaris seats (pictured) should help. read more.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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. If profits also lower as a result, so might budgets for medical meetings and congresses.

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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

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. November 2008.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

Learn more: How Medical Meetings Will Be Affected by the Trump Administration The survey reveals that many associations are experiencing financial strain, operational disruptions and strategic uncertainties in the current political and regulatory environment. ASAE broke down the key findings.

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