Event-management technology company StarCite has released a version of its strategic meetings management solution that is designed to help life-sciences companies adhere to regulatory demands that they track and report all expenses that involve healthcare professionals....More
Certain Software is getting into mobile meeting communications with the release of Certain Meetings 6.0, the latest version of its meeting management software....More
Meeting planners in the financial services industry often share best practices. A new tool from StarCite will help those planners implement a strategic meetings management program by following the paths taken by others in the industry....More
Your meetings management goals are aligned with overall corporate goals, right? So how do you prove it? How do you know if you’re veering off track? How do you know where to make adjustments for a changing environment? Enter the key performance indicator....More
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston....More
Cvent, a McLean, Va.–based event technology provider, has released a major upgrade to its online request for proposal tool, the Cvent Supplier Network...More
Our annual list of individuals have driven SMMP in their companies, advanced their roles as meeting pros, and are taking our industry to the next level...More
Senior meeting planners at the Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum revealed best practices for everything from global management and compliance to SMMPs...More
Vachon parlayed his BS in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management into a long career working on both the operational and sales side of the hotel industry...More
Koleen Roach joined Dayton Hudson Department Stores in 1984 as a word processor in the training and development department. By 1990, she had revamped the company’s service awards and recognition dinners, and by 1992 she had become the company’s first meeting planner...More
Terry Miller joined Lilly 32 years ago as an engineer but in time made the shift to a management path. His analytical, problem-solving background led to a variety of roles...More
Daniele Menache joined a boutique investment research and management firm, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Inc., in 1986 as an administrative assistant; she became a meeting planner in 1987...More
Before joining Daiichi Sankyo in November 2006 as manager of meetings, Karen Vander Ploeg spent five years working for a pharmaceutical industry contract sales organization. Her focus was on travel, meetings, and fleet...More
In 32 years at Liberty Mutual in Boston, Mary Keough-Anderson, CMP, CMM, has gained the trust and respect of clients and vendors—along with a direct line to the company’s leaders...More
With a background in engineering, finance, and project management in the aerospace industry, Jeff Singsaas joined Microsoft in 1995 to work in Eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall came down...More
Jennifer Glynn started her career in the meetings industry in 1994 as an event planner on the supplier side, working on special events and concerts for a private island near Miami...More
A successful meeting planner is both proactive and reactive, says Rob Gingras, CMP, CTE. “You need to be able to react to the latest situation—the volcano in Iceland, for example—so you minimize its impact...More
Nancy Teresa started working at Nestlé 16 years ago as a ticketing agent for a travel company. Four years later, she officially joined the company...More
Radek comes from an information technology background. She has been with Deutsche Bank for 14 years as a member of the global travel team where she leads a project team in the implementation of an online booking tool for travel...More
In 1979, David Smart walked into the sales office at the Hyatt Birmingham and found four co-workers booking programs, each paying a different rate, none working together...More
