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.
During its international conference last week in Montreux, Switzerland, Site awarded the highest of honors in the incentive industry—the Crystal Awards—to 15 companies. Many of this year’s entrants faced the challenge of maintaining quality...
The concept is straightforward: Find someone you don’t know at the conference cocktail reception and strike up business-related small talk. But as most people will admit, networking is not easy. And I’ll admit it. I’m kind of shy—which makes it...
The tumbling economy and higher cost of travel are causing physicians to rethink their plans to attend out-of-town meetings, according to Medical Meetings Physicians' CME Preferences Survey...
Don’t miss the International Association of Conference Centers Copper Skillet Combo, an entertaining educational event, set for January 15 at the new Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, N.J...
The economy and its impact on meetings was the hot-button topic for medical device and pharmaceutical meeting planners who gathered together for the second annual West Coast Medical Device and Bio/Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum held...
TS2, also known as the trade show about trade shows, will now include a track for show organizers as well as for its traditional exhibitor audience, thanks to a new partnership between the International Association of Exhibitions and Events and...
Three upcoming events for meeting planners and suppliers can help them to learn how their meetings and conventions can be more environmentally friendly...
The American Society of Association Executives won a lawsuit against housing company Complete Event Planning for unlawfully using ASAE’s logo in marketing materials...
Faced with the cancellation of a large 2009 travel-reward program for a West Coast automotive client, Excellence in Motivation, a Dayton, Ohio–based provider of incentive and performance improvement services, laid off 34 of its 250 employees last...
High-profile travel and meetings executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. Kevin Iwamoto has joined StarCite Inc., Philadelphia, in the newly created position of vice president, enterprise strategy. He will be responsible for directing StarCite’s approach...
