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Surveys: Med/Pharma Meetings are Growing

Smart Meetings

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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Great Minds in Biotech Gravitate to Phoenix

Convene by PCMA

For meeting planners, that unique knowledge center of leaders and speakers—plus state-of-the-art bioscience facilities conveniently located within walking distance of 4,000 hotels rooms—makes Phoenix an ideal location for medical meetings.

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. It might depend on your audience, and the goals and objectives of the meeting,” she said. As a planner in the medical association, Ferguson said, the hybrid component has helped greatly. “It

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. The solution?

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

Convene by PCMA

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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Tablets And Events: Why It’s Time For You To Ditch The Binder!

Endless Events

The Event Tech Podcast strives to make your life as an event planner easier, so we’re back at it! A lot of times for speakers, having a tablet with you can be really game-changing and really, really cool. Prepare to have your mind blown by this week’s discussion of tablets and events!

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