Meeting professionals want to use social media to foment more participant engagement around meetings and events, but getting started can be daunting. In a recent MeetingsNet webinar, Luann Edwards, CMP, CMM, social media strategist, FM Global, of...
Pharmaceutical and life sciences meeting managers are an intense and thoroughly professional niche of the meeting planning world, but is Pharma Forum all work and no play? No way. That would be a lost opportunity for sponsors to share innovative ...
This was the third year Pharma Forum has used a tech tool to connect hosted buyers with exhibitors for appointments at the show. But it was the first year with a new platform that solved three vexing problems.
In 2014 and 2015, the meeting’s ...
Pharma Forum day chairs got into the spirit of the MadLib icebreaker at the newcomers reception.It’s always nice to kick off a newcomer’s orientation with an icebreaker, but coming up with one that isn’t hokey is a challenge.
For the 2016 Pharma...
The Pharma Forum general sessions typically have been headlined by pharmaceutical and other life sciences industry insiders. Last year, the organizers branched out by inviting Bill Levisay, chief customer officer of Bolthouse Farms, to share his...
The Pharma Forum’s 2016 Advisory Committee—13 corporate and third-party planners and suppliers—held several brainstorming sessions with CBI and MeetingsNet over the months leading up to the conference. Its mission: content innovations that would ...
View of the stage from the control centerThe Pharma Forum, held in New York City in March and co-organized by MeetingsNet and CBI, for the first time contracted a production company for the program. “We were brought in to offer some new ideas and...
Photo by Frank VeronskyMeeting planners have always worked to top their previous events, add something new, and deliver more value to attendees. With today’s universe of possible program add-ons, technology tools, engagement strategies, learning ...
For many in the meetings industry who knew The Peabody Orlando as one of the best meeting hotels in Orlando, it was a bit of a shock when the Hyatt Regency brand began flying its flag there in October 2013.
Hyatt Regency Orlando’s Grotto Pool...
So interesting that a stock photo search for "introvert" came up with all images of people acting shy—these are two totally different, yet related, characteristics. On the Meetings Community (MeCo) listserv today, someone asked what p...
