PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. rst draft of a “Patients Included” charter, now used to set standards for patient involvement at meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 15, 2019

The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community. Not only is the region surrounding the Twin Cities known as Medical Alley and home to more than 1,000 health-care companies, MANOVA’s name is a mashup of Medical Alley and innovation.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So that’s kind of where we started the conversation, and then everything about the meeting spun off of that.” Swanson says it was heard around the medical practice business that employers were no longer funding line staff to go to face-to-face conferences. What about that line staff who are no longer in the Leaders Conference?

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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

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). I would say that this is absolutely true.

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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. I’m your host, Ashley Milne-Tyte.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Patient-facing health-care professionals will need to improve their ability to explain complex medical terms, diagnoses, and treatments to patients and their families, so they can do their part in improving their health. What does that mean for professional medical conferences? Submissions or curation?

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Okay, if you’re a meeting professional who works for a medical or health-care organization, it’s not actually a problem for you to imagine any of this. How is it different from standard continuing medical education (CME)? In fact, that’s more or less your job description. But what exactly is MOC, and where did it come from?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2022

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2019

Of the top 12 excuses given by conference organizers to explain why female speakers are underrepresented in — or absent altogether from — their meeting programs, the leading one is this: “We know we have no women. For organizers of scientific meetings, the answer to that question, resoundingly, is yes. Adobe Stock/Good Studio).

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to results from a recent Kenes Group study, health-care professionals value high-quality speakers and discussions, but they also want a virtual platform that affords them flexibility, time, and opportunity to fully absorb them. Engaging content with a range of speakers and live discussions. CME accreditation.

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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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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals. Clients – With the life sciences industry being so broad, it is important to know whether the medical communications agency has experience in your specific field.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 24, 2020

When the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) decided in March to move its in-person annual meeting scheduled to take place in July in Milan, Italy, to a virtual platform, it kept certain components intact. and the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, depending on the event’s audience. “All

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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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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. Even if you don’t provide poster sessions at your events, it could be a great way to help home in on event apps more geared towards the medical industry.

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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

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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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

Several scientific and medical conferences are changing to meet the demand. There are those medical and scientific events whose programs are rooted in the standard practice of one-way presentations — solo speakers who rely on poorly designed PowerPoint slides with large copy blocks in tiny fonts to drive home their points.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No. 2pD8Dpq.

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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

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

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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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. 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.”. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Senthil Gopinath.

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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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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

In addition, the 62nd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition took place online Dec. Convene spoke with Reed in late February to learn how he and his team reengineered the annual meeting not as a short-term strategy but to make it a sustainable enterprise — and a more valuable experience for all participants — for the coming years.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? HLTH is expected to launch with 2,000 attendees, 200-plus CEOs and company founders, and 300-plus speakers. The post Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences appeared first on PCMA Convene.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Will our submission process yield the highest quality sessions or will we need to invite speakers who we know can address our learning priorities? High-quality learning is worthy of investing time and money. Submissions or curation? Tip: Conference organizers are increasingly embracing a combination of curation and submission.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ Let’s say you have a guest ticket, VIP ticket, presenter/speaker ticket, and sponsor ticket. “We’re seeing people actually admitting their niches,” says Brandt. Now people are coming out loud and proud.”. You can apply logic to the types of tickets available.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It offered a real-time glimpse of a number of pieces of data about the audience, including how they rated the content and speakers, whether it was their first time at the convention, and other information about the name-badge-wearing colleagues next to them in session rooms. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said.

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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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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average, 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. They value experiences like food and beverage, speakers/entertainment, and learning environments with good audiovisual.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For example, event apps are a great for larger meetings and conferences or multi-day, multi-location events that have many moving parts (think lots of sessions, tracks, keynotes, networking, expo halls, dining options and the like) and lots of attendees looking at their smartphones constantly. Aventri (Loopd app). CrowdCompass from Cvent.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

Through a partnership formalized in late 2019 with Haymarket Medical Education, the mission was to sharpen member-data analysis and then leverage opportunities for additional content creation, speaker and presenter acquisition, and learner recruitment. What is the status of that event right now?

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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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SmartMeetings

JULY 22, 2019

A glitchy AV system or a sick keynote speaker may seem like disasters on event day, but are you ready if a real emergency hits? This is where Whitney suggests talking to a company that considers the holistic needs of the meetings and events industry and coordinates all the components into a comprehensive strategy.

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