SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?) We all know the staffing challenges in hospitality.

Healthcare 111

Healthcare Hospitality Negotiating Medical Meetings 111

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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. Learning about market trends and trends specific to the meetings I plan. Negotiating contracts. Like the travel — love my team.

Contracts 58

Contracts Travel Medical Meetings Education 58

PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

Here is what they said: Convincing stakeholders to hold live or hybrid meetings (63 percent). Contract negotiations/liability/waivers (43 percent). based planner concerns for moving forward with events were (highest to lowest): fear in general, lower attendance, travel restrictions, and negotiating contract terms.

Negotiating 98

Negotiating 2021 Medical Meetings 2020 98

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 2013 Food and Beverage 2009 56