Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Long wait times and inflationary pressure linger at in-person-only medical meeting The arrival in Seattle of 11,631 attendees for the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) conference in May was the culmination of a logistical struggle to return to bringing the world of eye doctors together at 2019 levels.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

“Our attendees are cancer nurses,” said Jen Krause, the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) director of national conferences and meetings. They’re administering medication that can truly be life-or-death. It’s a problem in the medical profession.”. So where do annual meetings fit in among all that stress and burnout?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

Staff meetings, sales meetings, educational programs, board meetings, national/international events—in-person or virtual or a combination thereof—any gathering of individuals can decide the fate of an organization.” Events are everywhere; and event planners play an integral role in any and every industry.

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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

APRIL 9, 2020

How will meeting professionals address risk post-COVID-19? Why should meeting professionals address risk? If you were a client looking to contract with a meeting planner or a company, which would you want to work with one that did not address risk? More : 4 Contingency Planning Scenarios You Need to Prepare For Today.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. Many meeting planners are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. A Pandemic Plan.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 10, 2020

One of the serious side effects of the wave of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases across the world was a sudden rush to learn a foreign language—or at least two words that had largely passed under many meeting professionals’ radar for years: force majeure. Smart Meetings asked veteran attorney John Foster, Esq., John Foster.

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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. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Plan (Much Farther!)

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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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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. However, we can minimize the risk with proper emergency preparedness education, and a pre-plan of how to execute your next meeting. Work with hotel or venue to define their guidelines. It begins with confidence.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

Global DMC Partners (GDP) , a global network of independently owned DMCs and creative event experts, held a virtual open forum , “The Meeting Planner’s New Reality in the ‘New Normal,’” on June 24. More than 700 meeting and event professionals from around the world registered. Catherine Chaulet. 64 percent), the U.K. (10

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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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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I remember chatting with friends at the annual Meetings Industry Council of Colorado event this past March, talking about having a break for a month or so until events would, as we assumed, ramp up back to normal levels. It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss.

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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. Medical organizations have the opportunity to make use of the PBC’s University of Arizona Center for Simulation and Innovation.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It featured seven planners and suppliers who offered their perspectives and advice for meeting organizers to get what they need while staying on budget. A multi-year or multi-event deal could get you what you need” both in that moment and for those future meetings. Read every line closely” and be prepared to clarify or alter terms.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The American Society of Hematology has an extensive media approach during its annual meeting that includes access to experts and facilitated media briefings. He wrote: Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP “I think this article is interesting from [the] perspective [of] what journalists want from conferences….

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 6, 2024

getting flooded by Debby, some meetings could have their itineraries cut short—and face attrition fees. along with a few meetings that were caught in its path. The good news: No large events were at the riverfront Tampa Convention Center ( below, with hotels at back right ) at that time. With the southeastern U.S.

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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. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Here are five reasons to book your next medical meeting in Phoenix: 1.

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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. 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.”. What can be done? Senthil Gopinath.

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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. How did ASH meet its sponsors’ objectives? We went with a different strategy.

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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. Lampedusa is not only related to migrants,” she said. Making a Connection. We haven’t decided yet,” Santoro said.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

Tiras, CMP, works in Houston, Texas, as p resident at International Meeting Managers, Inc. 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. Connect with Tiras on Twitter and Instagram.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

They had purchased a Canadian company in Vancouver, British Columbia, and asked me to plan a boat cruise where employees could meet and network. What I love about my job: Leading the strategic vision of how event technology can disrupt the meetings industry. Company or organization: Meeting Achievements in Valparaiso, Indiana.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. By scouring our online and print archives, I’ve compiled news that planners can use to host events in some of our favorite and best meeting cities.

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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).

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What makes one meeting professional happy may not be another’s cup of tea. Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Constantly meeting new people. Diversity and varying scope of events and meetings; the mission of the non-profit academic institution that employees me.

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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. During an offsite dinner at Disney Springs , I asked Yashema Mack, who works for Connecticut-based HMS Meeting Services, how she described her job. Then she said she was really an independent meeting planner.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Tori Emerson Barnes understood earlier than many in the North American meetings industry that the coronavirus was going to have a devastating impact on the economy. Smart Meetings sat down for an update on the effort and how individuals can help. From her vantage point in Washington, D.C., Since March, more than half of the 15.8

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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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

But what began as a mere elbow-room expansion became a bona-fide conference facility of its own in 2009—the Oquendo Center, with nearly 70,000 square feet of meeting space, with the capacity to train up to 250 veterinarians at once. But medical and scientific organizations often push their boundaries beyond current models. PROFIT MOTIVE.

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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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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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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

They had purchased a Canadian company in Vancouver, British Columbia, and asked me to plan a boat cruise where employees could meet and network. What I love about my job: Leading the strategic vision of how event technology can disrupt the meetings industry. Company or organization: Meeting Achievements in Valparaiso, Indiana.

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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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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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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The reinvented meeting included trips to the New School, Radio City Music Hall, and St. By all accounts, the 17,000 or so annual attendees were enjoying it just fine — as they had for more than 150 years, when the then newly formed association wrote annual meetings right into its bylaws. More Innovative Meetings.

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