International meetings have a lot of factors that can come into play all at once. It can be tricky to navigate through all the requirements to take full advantage of the venue, deliver a first-rate experience for the attendees, and ensure that all compliance protocols...
How do we prepare a social physically distant meeting in 2021? Meetings & events will be on the rise again in Q3 & Q4 of 2021 but they may look a little different. As companies and organizations prepare for the rebirth of live events, we’re...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt in every area of the meetings industry. Our industry has been impacted by cancellations of conferences, events and large gatherings. And again, our industry has been impacted by the economic downturn and slow recovery from the pandemic. Infinix...
It’s no secret that the number of live meetings have been limited since March. Though we’ve been tapping into our virtual expertise, boy had we missed live programs! We’ve had a small sliver of that excitement with a 2-part LIVE (yes, we said it…LIVE!) meeting...
Virtual meetings are the mainstay across the globe in 2020. When people get together to exchange ideas, they’re turning to technology as the conduit for connection. Sure, there have been plenty of event planners executing virtual meetings for years but, as an industry, we’ve had...
The simplest and most effective way to measure ROI for a pharmaceutical Investigator Meeting is site attendance. While live meetings bring greater potential for peer to peer learning and more productive engagement between sponsors and site attendees, virtual investigator meetings come with some unique benefits...
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has, as we all know, hit the business events industry with unprecedented force. Around the globe, events professionals have been faced with lockdowns and health concerns forcing event cancellations from March well into the summer. As the world...
In 2019, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry and Associations (EFPIA) made changes to its reporting system. EFPIA consolidated its three codes: HCP (health care personnel), PO (patient organizations) and the Disclosure code (similar to open payments in the United States), into one simplified Code. The...
When the Sunshine/Open Payments Act went into effect in 2013, life sciences companies implemented self-imposed meal caps to be compliant. Although the actual regulations in the U.S. require only that food and beverage (F&B) offered be “reasonable” or “modest” in price, concerns about compliance perception...
For meeting planners, the only thing worse than long check-in lines is keeping track of manual sign-in sheets for conference sessions at a health care provider (HCP) event. With the ever-changing regulatory requirements for HCP spending, the meetings industry is tasked with providing effective (and...