Planning an international AIDS meeting in postwar Rwanda seemed like mission impossible. Here's how Sheila Stampfli and her team pulled it off.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has transformed millions of lives and has made everyone more attuned to ensuring accessibility in all areas, from schools to stores to public transportation to hotel accommodations and conferences. It...

When Lorna Murdock took the role of director of marketing communications at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IMPAC Medical Systems Inc., it wasn't long before she realized she could use her previous experience as an executive producer of events to bring a...

Index of leading medical meetings will track industry trends

A certification exclusively for healthcare exhibit marketing professionals, Certified Manager of Exhibits-Healthcare, has been created by the Trade Show Exhibitors Association in conjunction with the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors...

To most association meeting planners, the threat of protesters at the annual convention would cause sleepless nights. But for Robbi Lycett, vice president, conventions and conferences at Washington, D.C.-based Biotechnology Industry Organization...

Sheila Buckley and her staff at the Learning Disabilities Association of America, Pittsburgh, had to do some quick thinking and fast acting to keep its annual meeting from being canceled after concrete flooring at the venue, the David L. Lawrence...

These are not the Best of times for the pharmaceutical industry. More regulations, increased federal scrutiny, pricing pressures, and a tarnished public image all cloud the present — and future — of the industry. But along with these challenges...

Approximately 40 senior planners from more than 20 pharmaceutical companies conducted a closed-door summit, facilitated by Barbara Taylor Carpender, CMM, Chief Alliance Officer, Taylored Alliances, Denver, during the first morning of the Third...

The location has been selected. The program has been set with a great roster of speakers, including a famous keynote who is certain to be a draw. Now all that's left is to get marketing, right? Well, not quite! Marketing should never be the last...