What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
While wildfires raged around San Diego last week, the San Diego Convention Center remained—and remains—“open for business,” according to Steve Johnson, vice president of public affairs for the San Diego Convention Center Corp...
Business travel costs will continue to rise in 2008, according to the annual American Express Global Business Travel Forecast, which was released last week...
With airport security hassles and overcrowded flights a fact of life for on-the-go meeting professionals and their attendees, we caught up with Peter Greenberg, travel editor for NBC’s “The Today Show,” to get his four best tips for reducing air...
Most benchmarking around strategic meeting management programs has focused on U.S. companies—until now. A new white paper released by Advito, the Dallas-based independent consulting division of BCD Travel, profiles several European companies’...
Meeting Professionals International Chicago Area Chapter is holding a daylong conference dedicated to addressing issues facing female leaders. The 2007 MPI-CAC Women's Leadership Conference—geared toward full- and part-time meeting planners...
Kim Boriin, CMP, is greening his hotel contracts. The senior events marketing specialist at Guardian Investor Services LLC, New York, now has a clause “saying that we are concerned with sustainable business practices and want to know that you are...
SpotMe 2, a handheld multifunction meeting gadget, has grabbed first place in the WorldWide Technology Watch competition, an annual contest run by EIBTM, the international meeting and incentive exhibition, to find top meeting and event technology...
A new medical conference launched this week for healthcare practitioners who help war veterans deal with combat stress, depression, anxiety, and brain injuries...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education¹s new policies, particularly its new definition of commercial interest, have garnered much controversy and raised a lot of questions within the CME community...
