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.
Sitting for the Convention Industry Council’s Certified Meeting Professional designation is not cheap in terms of time or fees, but is it worthwhile? Results from the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2016 annual salary survey find...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology now consider each other’s accreditation systems to be mutually equivalent. This means that both accreditors acknowledge that they sh...
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Mike McAllen with Grass Shack Events and Media sits down with Steven Wickel, founder of the Future of Events Conference, which is coming August 22–24 In RAI...
Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and magician, blew my mind a little with this article on Medium on how technology is being used to influence our decisions without us even realizing it. And as I was reading, I couldn’t help but thi...
For creating a certification program for Baxalta’s supplier partners that ensures quality, efficiency, and consistency in meeting execution—as part of implementing an SMMP in only a year’s time
A “high-risk-taking” meeting manager who has repositioned her event … a well-known industry blogger… several stars behind strategic meetings management successes … an “industry whiz kid”… a founder of a meeting tech tool … a strong leader whose ...
Participants posing with their finished Mud Pie KitchensMany meetings include some sort of corporate social responsibility activity to give back to the community in which the event is held. While it’s relatively easy to raise funds to donate to a...
You walk into the convention ballroom and immediately recognize that this meeting is going to be different.
The stage is not at the front of the room, but in the middle of the room. There is no lectern—no “front” to the stage. The chairs are p...
An article by Nancy Zavada about the common misconception that donating leftover event food is illegal garnered lots of comments at MeetingsNet. Many planners said they’ve gotten pushback from hotels when asking if they could donate...
