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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

Smart Meetings

One Step Ahead, Predicting the Future of Event Technology. Brian Ludwig is no psychic but he does have an interest in the future; specifically, the future of event technology. Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. Harness the Power of Negotiation to Master Your Post-Covid Events Career.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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Convincing Stakeholders to Hold Live or Hybrid Events is Planners’ Top Concern

PCMA Convene

The panel agreed, predicting that hybrid solutions will be popular next year, and added that some of their biggest challenges transitioning to virtual and hybrid events have been pricing, security, and the learning curve for learning new technology platforms. Contract negotiations/liability/waivers (43 percent).

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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

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. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t. And neither is the supply of talented staff.

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

Building relationships with sponsors to help them meet their objectives. Challenging every month, need to learn new technologies and better myself in order to deliver expected requirements. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Negotiating contracts.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department.

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