DAY 1 ✦ LIVE: 4 Nov 2024 - CET (Central European Time, GMT+01:00)
As a result of COVID, the great resignation, talent loss, talent shifts, inflation, emotional and physical burnout, customer behavior change and other factors, there are many new planners who need to be professionally trained on the science of planning medical meetings. Experienced planners may also need to upskill their education. The healthcare world can be complex and confusing, and having the Medical Meeting Planning (MMP) Certificate can mitigate risks and consequences. An individual who obtains their MMP Certificate is someone with knowledge of relevant planning, terminologies, processes, and compliance regulations for healthcare meetings. Knowledge and expertise in basic medical meeting planning will assist in understanding and practical operations sufficient to assist the meeting professional in understanding and addressing obligations and skills. You’ll be able to:
- Understand what qualifies as a medical meeting
- Learn the steps of planning medical meetings
- Execute areas of planning medical meetings, including sourcing, transportation, food and beverage, speakers, tradeshows and exhibits and production
- Develop budgets, billing and analytics associated with planning medical meetings
- Discuss producing virtual and hybrid medical meetings
- Determine how sustainability, safety procedures and best practices play a role in planning medical meetings
- Learn the role of compliance and ethics in planning medical meetings
*Additional fee to participate in this programme - Registrants must purchase "How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events" in order to attend the course. Pre-reading this book prior to the course is recommended. Books must be purchased here. Print book costs $85 and eBook costs $80.
- Cheyenne Nelson , HMCC, MMP - Business Development Director, Life Sciences, McVeigh Global Meetings and Events
This session will offer a quick review of the key compliance challenges we all know and love around menu planning for this sector. Then we’ll break into groups for a fun competition using actual menu samples from hotels! Which team will be able to create the most appetizing, healthy, filling, cost effective menus while staying compliant for various meeting types? Join in to find out!
- Pablo Yudi, HMCC - Event Sourcing Manager, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
- Ella Darby - Head, Global Event Experience, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
This exclusive summit is designed for senior corporate meeting management professionals within the life sciences industry. It’s the starting point to collaborate and interact in an agile learning format, share experiences, brainstorm solutions to common challenges and benchmark on key issues facing the industry. Eligible attendees must have at least 10 years of meeting management experience and at least 10 years within the pharmaceutical/biotech and/or medical device/life sciences industry. *Final eligibility approval is at the discretion of Informa. Topics of discussion may include:
- Demonstrate ROI to Management – why do we need the extra staff at registration? Management still don’t understand the complexity of how congresses are planned – how can we paint this picture to Senior Executives with a decentralized budget?
- Incorporating AI and tech into congress activities
- Innovative ways to educate HCPs when resources are cut
- How to best work with Association timelines that may not align w/ companies
- What are others seeing in shifts in live vs. Virtual attendance so far out post-covid?
- Innovations from companies doing more with less
- Managing multi-generational teams, keeping them motivated, resource management, budget management
- Career development for Senior planners - setting yourself up for growth and development at your company, advocating for your job and role as a strategic planner - what does that look like and entail?
- Indeep Phull - Associate Director, WW Congress Operations Lead, Bristol Myers Squibb
- Adriano Souza - Global Congress & Engagement Strategy Lead, Roche
This summit is designed for senior meeting management professionals who are currently employed by a third-party/events management agency, or independently employed. Eligible attendees must have at least 10 years of meeting management experience and at least 5 years working with clients from the pharma/biotech, life sciences or medical device industry. *Final eligibility approval is at the discretion of Informa.
Topics of discussion may include:
- How to prove ROI to your clients
- Budget challenges with change in client spending – explore general cost exercise
- Selling value of in-person meetings again vs. Virtual, as many are turning virtual due to cost
- How to communicate to leadership team both internally and on client side regarding budget challenges (higher costs from external partners – hotels/vendors etc.), and budget cuts on clients side
- Managing contracting concessions
- HCP engagement strategies (virtual/in-person, hands-on, education ecosystem, digital platforms, virtual reality, tele-proctoring etc.)
- Developing Service Level Agreements (SLAs or MSAs)
- Paulomi Debnath, HMCC - Team Lead, Global Event Sourcing, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
- Ella Darby - Head, Global Event Experience, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
If this is your first Pharma Forum experience, you haven’t joined us in a few years, or you're interested in some much-needed peer networking - this wave & welcome and orientation is a must-attend! Gain tips on how to make the most out of your Pharma Forum experience through the unique nature of this conference, network with peers and keep your eye on key takeaways to be gained.
- What to expect
- Navigate the agenda – How to choose the best sessions for you
- Exhibit hall and layout guide
- Learn about our CSR activities and Sustainability Efforts Onsite
- Review of the conference app
- The Power of Relationships and Speed Networking
- Jessica Weller - Senior Director Life Sciences - Global Strategic Enterprise Customers, CWT Meetings & Events
- Cheyenne Nelson , HMCC, MMP - Business Development Director, Life Sciences, McVeigh Global Meetings and Events
- Sam McNeill - General Manager, SongDivision UK & Europe
- Amber Prothero - Client Executive, SongDivision UK & Europe
- Tom Billington - Rock Star, SongDivision UK & Europe
As we did topic research for this event, we discovered that each company, department, and individual are in different mindsets and have different goals to achieve regarding sustainability. In this session, through anonymous live polling and case studies, we’ll level set and explore some successful practices on how to achieve, report on, and continue to reach for future success for a carbon neutral event. It’s not the same old ‘don’t-use-bottled-water’ type session:
- you'll get an understanding of industry benchmarks
- how you can set them for your events and team
- see usable tools for measuring and reporting
- How to source end-to-end in a sustainable way
- How do you elevate from an event level to a full program level?
- Hear actionable changes you can make for your events that are compliant!
- And walk away with how to how to shift your mindset into thinking everyday about how you can contribute through your events
- Louise Tweed - Senior Manager, EMEA Travel & Meeting Operations, Global Procurement, GSK
- Paulomi Debnath, HMCC - Team Lead, Global Event Sourcing, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
- Mark Jackson - Managing Director, Head of Experiential, Emota
- Thiago Araujo - Director, Sustainability, BCD Meetings & Events