Prelude Activities ✦ Sunday, March 24 - EST/EDT (Eastern Daylight, GMT-4)
Prelude Activities ✦ Sunday, March 24 - EST/EDT (Eastern Daylight, GMT-4)
This workshop is geared towards meeting professionals who are new to the medical meetings space (less than three years) and any professionals seeking a refresher on general medical meeting planning. The healthcare world can be complex and confusing and having the MMP can mitigate risks and consequences. Key objectives of this Certificate are:
- Qualifying Medical Meetings • Working with speakers
- Steps in Planning Medical Meetings • Tradeshows and Exhibits
- Sourcing • On-site Protocols
- Budgeting, Billing and Analytics • Production
- Registration • Virtual and Hybrid Medical Meetings
- Transportation • Sustainability, Safety Procedures and Best Practices
- Food and Beverage • Compliance and Ethics
*Additional fee to participate in this program
- Christina Lofton, CMP, MMP, HMCC - Customer Success Manager, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
This summit is designed for senior corporate meeting management professionals within the life sciences industry. Eligible attendees must have at least 10 years of meeting management experience and at least 8 years within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology and medical device industries. *Final eligibility approval is at the discretion of CBI/MeetingsNet.
This exclusive pre-conference benchmarking summit is the critical starting point for senior corporate planners at Pharma Forum. Join this collaborative session with fellow senior meeting managers to interact in this agile learning session sharing experiences, brainstorming solutions to common challenges, and benchmarking on the below topics.
- Inflation and supply challenges
- Managing Executive Stakeholders and their Expectations (internal and outsourced models) **still today senior planners are struggling with the perception that they are ‘party planners’
- Discuss how to demonstrate ROI and translate metrics into insight
- Determine best practices for supplier relationship management
- Exchange new experiences about utilizing different event technologies
- Discuss risk, safety and security best practices
- Setting Yourself up for Growth and Development at Your Company/job satisfaction - advocate for your job and role as a strategic planner - what does that look like and what does and entail?
- Danielle Petroff, HMCC - Manager, US Meetings & Events, Gilead Sciences
- Becky Cavanaugh - Program Director, Global Medical Meetings and Events, Syneos Health
- Margi Delgado - Senior Manager, Meeting & Event Planning, Fresenius-Kabi
- Abby Guy - Associate Director, Global Meetings Management, Amgen
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 pharmaceutical/biotechnology and medical device industries. *Final eligibility approval is at the discretion of Informa.
Take part in this knowledge exchange session to connect on key issues facing third-party planners working in the life sciences industry. Key topics of discussion include:
- How to prove ROI to your clients
- 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
- Marketing tactics to gain more clients – getting your foot in the door
- HCP engagement strategies
- Developing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Creating a successful partnership model
- Client management strategies
- Navigate resource management
- Achieving and maintaining preferred provider status
- Discuss changes in funding models and how independent and third-party planners are adapting to these shifts
- Kathy Grau - Group Director of Operations, MedForce
- Shelley Huez, HMCC - Strategic Account Director, Bishop McCann
- Tori Mercun - Associate Director, Strategic Accounts, Infinix Global Meetings and Events
If this is your first Pharma Forum experience or you haven’t joined us in a few years, this 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 and keep your eye on key takeaways to be gained.
- What to expect
- Navigate the agenda – How to choose the best sessions for you
- Understand the appointment set up process
- Exhibit hall and layout guide
- Learn about our CSR activities and Sustainability Efforts Onsite
- Review of the conference app
- The Power of Relationships and Mastering the networking game
- Darryl Diamond, CMP - Associate Director of Meetings, Talley
- Cheyenne Nelson - Business Development Director, Life Sciences, McVeigh Global Meetings and Events
- Jeffrey Cesari - Director - Meeting Services, Strategic Events Services, Genentech