Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer. “We

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

Yoga and 5K fun runs have become staples at many other medical meetings, too, including the ONS Congress and the AOA’s OMED. Some hotels have been less open to Murphy’s menu requests than others. My first year here, before we changed the menus, I heard things like, ‘This is a lot of cholesterol!,’” she said.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

She later moved on to a role with Chicago Marriott Hotel on Michigan Avenue, then ventured into the association space as exhibition manager at the American Dietetic Association (ADA), known today as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown from Jan. A direct beneficiary of this activity has been the medical meetings industry , helping propel hospitality and tourism to Philadelphia’s third largest industry. Click for more details.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Hotels are not as flexible as in the past and can truly demand a higher spend for better space/rooms offerings.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. The Greater Phoenix area’s combination of affordability, accessibility, proximity and authority sets this destination apart for medical meetings.

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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. Plan Like an EMT. Determine the local public health requirements that need to be implemented. Check for updates from local public health resources frequently.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

And one panelist offered a note of hope, saying that she had flown on all four major airlines in the past 30 days and stayed in numerous hotels, and her experiences had demonstrated that the travel and hospitality industry are taking the necessary steps to keep the public safe. Michelle Russell is editor in chief of Convene.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 9, 2020

How will meeting professionals address risk post-COVID-19? When Coffey asks hotel sales professionals why they haven’t addressed risk, they often say because the client hasn’t asked any of these questions, and if they’re not concerned about it, then they don’t address it. If you’re a CMP, you’ve been trained on it.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 6, 2024

Meanwhile, downtown Tampa—where the city’s convention center and several big hotels reside—narrowly dodged significant flooding, as the Hillsborough River alongside the downtown district crested just below the top of its seawall. However, Tampa International Airport saw more than 150 flights cancelled on Sunday. It was cancelled.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. Hotels and resorts bask in near-perpetual sunshine. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

However, most medical meetings are designed for physicians and researchers as the primary audience, and the journalists will participate in the meetings with the most newsworthy content and most notable sources in attendance.” ASH shepherds this cohort’s experience from start to finish as part of the media delegation. “In

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 27, 2018

She brings more than 30 years of experience in the meeting, trade show, and hotel industries to the table, with expertise in strategic meetings management and the healthcare sector. Michal Skalski is an account manager at Creative Group, planning medical meetings, advisory boards and incentive travel programs.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Since there isn’t “a real congress center on the island,” she said, AIM Group created one inside Lampedusa’s airport, equipping rooms with technology and furniture that will remain for future meeting use. SIAARTI’s maxi simulation also featured a serious traffic accident on land nearby.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 10, 2020

Don’t just agree with what the hotel proposes.” “Next to attrition and cancellation-performance clauses, force majeure clauses are the most contentious parts of a contract to negotiate,” he says. Both sides need to have realistic, comprehensive language that covers the realities of a post-coronavirus world.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

If you trust the internet, you might expect to have a hard time finding a hotel room in Manchester this coming May. The medical meeting planner said that this is where attendees need to exercise common sense. What can be done? In fact, a veteran U.S.-based In many cases, predatory conferences accept 100 percent of submissions.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Many meeting planners are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. Desi Whitney is president and co-founder of Emergency Concierge International (ECI), an all-hazards emergency planning company for meetings. . Work with hotel or venue to define its guidelines. •

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

How I got here: When our youngest went off to college, I was approached by the Baylor College of Medicine to manage medical meetings for various departments. After seven years, I left to start my own independent meeting planning company in 1986, which was rare at that time.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For groups that will use a DMC for a meeting, “engage us as soon as possible for our local knowledge of hotels—how pricey and how negotiable they will be in a given time frame, even on audiovisual elements,” said Erin Lipman, national sales director for destination management company Destination Concepts.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

Reed started his career in hotel sales, and that background, he said, has enabled him to look at the revenue component of ASH’s events through a different lens. In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California; president of Casey’s Cupcakes. This personal investment outside of the hotel sparks creative ideas for guests and inspires ways to better connect with and take care of my staff. Kelly Roberts. Job title: Owner, vice chairman and chief operating officer.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. You go into a hotel and people have pre-thought everything that you could possibly need, and given you control of your experience. Design can take many forms.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. Hotels do it all the time. Between medical meetings and mega-computer trade shows, their collective experiences help a variety of businesses stage critical, and fun, events around the globe.

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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. When businesses, hotels and meeting organizers are doing everything they can to ensure the safety of those who choose to attend, they should not be subject to lawsuits.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hotel sourcing and research. No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. 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. Working with CVBs, hotel, convention-center staff.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 18, 2025

I transitioned from restaurants to hotel management, focusing on meetings and events. In my earlier career, I planned more than 600 weddings (you could usually find me tearing up in the back as couples said their I Dos), then hundreds of corporate & nonprofit events, trade shows, and medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

ASM Microbe was a big program — so big that it took up all of the BCEC, in Boston’s Seaport district, plus meeting space at three nearby hotels: the Westin Boston Waterfront, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, and the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center. You might even call it recombinant. Walking and Talking.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

And because pathologists are always either in basement offices or hotel conference rooms, we thought, if we’re going to do a resort destination like Palm Springs, it has to have light, and a view, and a sense of energy. You can see why people like working in a hotel environment so much—no two days are the same.” . .

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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

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 26, 2016

The Event Services Professionals Association just released a customizable toolkit of accessibility checklists hotels, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus can customize to show planner clients how they accommodate people with disabilities. read more.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. billion in hotel expenditures, $935 million in tax revenues and $124.1 million in hotel tax revenues. At the boutique hotel, groups can indulge in cosmopolitan dining at Moromito Waikiki.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2017

11–13, at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel in New Delhi, India. Sometimes conference themes are so aspirational that there’s no direct correlation between the message and the event programming. Not so with the 10th World Congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, held last Nov.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California; president of Casey’s Cupcakes. This personal investment outside of the hotel sparks creative ideas for guests and inspires ways to better connect with and take care of my staff. Kelly Roberts. Job title: Owner, vice chairman and chief operating officer.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

I also would like to create and own my own brand of hotels. Kincaid Hotels has a nice ring to it, if I say so myself! Associate Manager, Meetings and Fellowships American Orthopaedic Association Rosemont, Illinois, USA. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. KATHY SINNEN, CMP.

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