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 conference organizers often welcome social media interaction at their events, making it easy for participants to snap, tweet, and share by providing hashtags and photo opps, some meetings need to keep what’s shared—confidential corporate in...
Meeting venues are always coming up with new ways to energize your attendees, help them bond with each other, or boost their meeting productivity. We’ve collected some recent ideas that have crossed our desk that could inspire your next...
With the pace of technology evolution and the need for savvy messaging even greater now than it was back in 2013, why are CME providers still sticking to email and direct-mail marketing—tactics that were more appropriate for 2001 than today...
Many medical societies are interested in providing Maintenance of Certification credits—it just can be a little tricky to pull off. Here's one society did it.
Going from historic and traditional to youthful and innovative, the Boston Park Plaza has completed its multiyear, $100 million renovation and restoration project, which included a complete overhaul of the hotel’s 1,060 guestrooms and corridors...
Total income for accredited continuing medical education providers last year was $2.4 billion, down from $2.6 billion in 2014, according to the Accreditation Council for CME’s 2015 Annual Report. The report includes data from the ACCME-accredited...
Meeting planners love to network with each other. And they love it when attendees at their own conferences network with each other. This year, IMEX America is giving planners the chance to try out one of the many matchmaking tools on the market...
In 2003, during the time that Kevin Iwamoto was managing corporate travel for a mulitnational company, a car bomb exploded outside a hotel in Jakarta. Iwamoto did his usual check-in with his travel management company to see whether any employees...
