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.
What do successful continuing professional education programs have in common? Are the qualities one expects to find in successful programs the ones that have actually helped them climb to the top? How are those success-ful programs similar to one...
PGI, an Arlington, VA­p;based global events, entertainment, exhibitions, and business communications company, purchased Regency Productions, an event production and entertainment marketing subsidiary of Hyatt Corporation...
After 34 years as Boston's leading convention sales professional, Paul Lanigan, senior convention sales manager at The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, retired at the end of March. Lanigan leaves having solicited and booked a...
HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS Thomas R. Schedler, CAE, has been appointed executive director of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, based in Park Ridge, IL. Most recently, Schedler was president of Schedler and Associates, a management...
Some 250 members from ten meeting industry organizations brought their message to Capitol Hill on Legislative Action Day in March. Spearheaded by Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the chief sponsor of the event, the group visited 65...
PGI, an Arlington, VAp;based events, entertainment, exhibitions, and business communications company, has acquired the Destination Showcase trade show from the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus (IACVB). The events are...
The Mile-High City is looking like the come-back kid. With Denver's new Coors Field drawing crowds and giving a new lease on life to the city's Lower Downtown (LoDo) area, Denver International Airport's (DIA) baggage-handling problems finally...
The opening of the newly expanded Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City was marked with a four-day celebration for the grand opening of the facility, including fireworks, folk festivals, free concerts, a laser light show, a parade down...
When 5,000 attendees converge in Boston in August for the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), they will sample a generous slice of the best the city has to offer: an opening reception in historic Copley Square...
Having started only six years ago as a regional production company, Production Group International (PGI), headquartered in Arlington, VA, has grown outward and upward, adding new business lines in the meetings industry. Its latest acquisitions...
