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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

China, Germany, India, and Japan, told Convene that members’ names and photos are often displayed online as speakers or members of organizing committees without their knowledge to give a fake conference a sense of legitimacy. Based in Hyderabad, India, the company’s website states that it organizes more than 3,000 conferences in the U.S.,

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2017

11–13, at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel in New Delhi, India. Though live dentistry presentations sound as though they could easily go awry, Naveen Rizvi, regional director of India & Indian Ocean, Pacific World — known locally as ICE – Integrated Conference & Event Management — said the sessions went off without a hitch.

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