Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

To her, event management is “a far-reaching, integrated field.” Every business is affected by events and the management of those gatherings,” she says. She joined volunteer organizations, including EIC, PCMA, Greater Midwest Chapter of PCMA, ASAE, Association Forum, and Green Meetings Industry Council (now a part of EIC).

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Event Marketer

MARCH 17, 2024

Zac Kelley, Manager Convention Services/3rd Party Industry Events/Demo Bank, Zimmer Biomet You might compare Zac Kelley’s role as manager of convention services and third-party events for Zimmer Biomet, a medical technology provider of orthopedic care, to that of a head of an operating room.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 15, 2019

One panel included an advisory board member from Sight, a well-funded Israeli blood diagnostic startup, and a doctor from the United Kingdom working on an experiment in which local Greater Manchester officials will take control of an $8-billion budget for health- and social-care that has traditionally been managed by national authorities.

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Quickmobile

MAY 2, 2018

There are a number of reasons why every-day meeting and conference planners can feel immensely proud of the hurdles faced and feats overcome consistently leading to successful events. Here is why I loved being an event planner, specifically planning medical meetings: A sense of doing good. Meetings that help people.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

There’s a lot of information out there about how to better your career as a meeting professional. Throughout the year, Smart Meetings has invited professionals from different corners of the event planning world to impart their knowledge. Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2019

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. They just can’t get enough education, and meetings play a vital role in HCP’s career-long quest for education,” she says.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

At the time, meeting planners prepared for the worst, fearing that physicians would shy away from attending meetings altogether. But the Disclosure Code ultimately had no significant impact on participation at medical meetings. How will it affect medical meetings? Effective Jan. What is changing?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Health-care providers have high standards for the meetings they attend, according to a recent report by American Express Meetings & Events. What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? Erickson Stock/Adobe Stock). The extra stuff is almost immaterial. TAKEAWAY 2.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

On the hunt for the top medical communications companies to help you run better life science events? Planning and running successful events in the pharma industry involves managing multiple vendors, overseeing details, and executing a plan that’s cost-efficient and produces tangible results. Get our ultimate list.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

If these waves of change haven’t affected your medical meetings’ business model yet, it’s just a matter of time. Session mix   How much of your program should be scientific or clinical versus practice-management or patient-centered?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. This time on the podcast we meet Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. He thinks that could easily happen at a medical conference.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2023

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, made a name for herself 10 years ago with the launch of the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program. MeetingsNet’s Changemakers list recognizes outstanding meeting professionals for their efforts to move their organizations and the industry forward in unique and positive ways.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Seven years after the Sunshine Act first lit up the health-care industry, the legislation is having a widespread impact on medical meetings. The number of dinners and in-person meetings may be shrinking, but the need for learning opportunities isn’t. It’s changed the paradigm. It’s changed the paradigm.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2017

ABTS is laying the groundwork to prepare associations, so they don’t encounter massive losses to meetings with high numbers of international medical-technology sponsorships. We are currently working on a process to manage sponsors, who may want to use allowed educational grants. Andrade says this won’t be the case for 2018.

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Connect Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Register for “10 Steps to Planning a Hybrid Meeting” Extending your event to the online world can often seem like a daunting task. Speaker Bio: Mahoganey Jones is versatile, results-oriented certified meeting professional and digital event strategist with proven skills and track record in all aspects of meeting management.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 22, 2019

To help you make sure you’re prepared for an emergency, Smart Meetings asked experts John Whitney IV of Emergency Concierge International and Joseph Veneman of StaffMate Online their top tips for emergency planning. Who should planners talk to about risk management for events? More: Emergency Preparedness Lessons from ADMEI 2019.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

When choosing the events to attend, HCPs are looking to stay up to date on the latest trends for their specialties, meet with experts or key opinion leaders, and network with colleagues. A majority of HCPs want to contribute to the meeting agenda; 39% have never been asked to contribute and only 15% do so currently.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But how can you choose the best event platform to help you run successful virtual and hybrid medical events ? In this article, we outline the features you should look for in a medical event management platform, list the 9 best event platforms out there for HCP events, and provide an RFP template to help you compare vendors.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Event Tech for Medical and Financial Meetings. Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of medical and financial meeting and event planning. Here are some of the features to look for to help steer you towards apps that are likely to be more appropriate for financial and medical events. Enhanced Security.

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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.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Pair this with a short turnaround time for healthcare meetings (back to the lack of predictability), plus the surge in live meetings put on pause from 2020 and 2021. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape.

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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. Manage communications. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Maritz Travel continues to expand its offerings in the med/pharma meetings arena by launching Maritz Travel Healthcare Solutions this week. I’ve trained more than a thousand medical meetings professionals through the HMCC program, and heard first-hand about the challenges these companies face,” Schaumann says.

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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. Dienst is managing editor of Convene. Jennifer N.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Less Panic, More Design Strategy.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Using research results from a recent white paper by Ashfield Meetings & Events, three medical-meeting specialists will discuss how physician preferences at meetings and congresses are evolving, and why. Attend this webinar to: Discover how physician preferences at meetings and congresses are changing.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 26, 2017

What they had envisioned was that it was going to be either the medical associations themselves doing this grant process and requesting money to then pay for doctors to come, or on a smaller scale, the hospitals. based medical meetings. Medical meetings for 2018, they pretty much start in February, March.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Medical and pharmaceutical events help health care professionals stay up to date on advances in disease management and cures. Following are the latest updates for making your next medical meeting the best yet. The post Best Practices for Med/Pharma Meetings appeared first on Smart Meetings. Sponsored By.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Often, these meetings are operating in a gray legal area, skating a fine line between illegal and unethical,” Gopinath continued. “If If a meeting has taken place at the advertised time and place, then the organizers can’t be accused of misrepresentation in that regard.”. “If based medical meeting organizer who requested anonymity.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A recent survey of more than 200 business-event planners by Global DMC Partners found that their top five challenges this year are adapting to higher costs; finding availability; budget management; timely approval from internal decisionmakers; and contract negotiations. Sound familiar?

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And if you were Anthony Cassidy, senior sales manager at the Manchester Convention Bureau, you would be giving yourself a high-five for winning such an impressive number of bids. 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.”.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

For the planner, we’re trying to be more strategic because, especially for smaller or shorter meetings, they take up a lot of space, come at an enormous cost, and take a long amount of time to set up. Kaur said delegates at medical meetings value the opportunity to learn about new treatments and devices.

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

How much of our program should be scientific or clinical vs. practice- management or patient-centered? Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. Here are four questions (and tips) for your conference committee to consider as they navigate this changing landscape: 1.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Jan. The boutique conference has built quite the following , drawing the most influential managers in the medical meetings market. Dominguez’s presentation on Feb. Novartis and Pfizer.

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