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.
Having kept a low profile for a bit, the Green Meeting Industry Council is striding back to life with new resources behind it and a new ability to spread its message and its impact across the meetings and events industry...
Tim McGill and Carla Hargrove McGill, co-owners of custom trade show, exhibit, and event services firm Hargrove Inc., have donated $2,500 to The Meetings Industry Fund, bringing the fund’s total to more than $32,000. The fund, which provides fina...
As a meeting professional, you know that:
• Someone will unexpectedly declare that they’re vegan, gluten-free, and kosher—and mess up your whole meal plan.
• Some speakers will forget to bring their handouts, and require Keynote when you ha...
For a group that had enjoyed decades of incredible incentive trips to places like South Africa, the destination management company CSI Washington, DC, had to knock their socks off in the nation’s capital (oh, and the group had done a D...
That’s the upshot of the “The Venue of the Future,” the latest downloadable report from Julius Solaris, editor of the Event Manager Blog. He pinpoints the moment he knew he had to create the document: Sitting at a travel...
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with a group of hoteliers and buyers in the life sciences sector about the challenges they face in meeting each other’s needs. The conversation raised a lot of interesting questions, one of which covers wha...
Meeting and travel planners have a lot of questions about the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and unfortunately some of those questions are unanswerable right now.
For example, despite a dramatic increase in the cases of babies born with microcepha...
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Mike McAllen of Grass Shack Events and Media talks with Liz King, who started her first company, Liz King Events, in 2010 in the midst of the down economy. By sharing ...
Continuing medical education provides great benefit to the learners, and there are outcome studies that show it also leads to improvement in patient care. But two questions still remained: How does CME affect the overall cost of care? Can increas...
