Welcome to Pharma Forum, the largest conference for life science meeting professionals! On March 24-27, 2024, over 500 attendees from across the industry gathered in Tampa, Fla., to discuss the challenges facing the medical and life sciences meeting community.
Our world-class speakers included Celeste Headlee, Journalist, Author, Speaker; Julius Robinson, Chief Sales and Market Vice President, U.S. and Canada, Marriott International; Jeffrey Cesari, Director, Meeting Services, Strategic Event Services, Genentech; Michelle Kaminski, Global Meetings & Events, Global Director, Global Medical and R&D, AstraZeneca; Jackie Foust, Manager, HIV Lead, Global Events, Medical Affairs and Treasurer, Pride Alliance Employee Resource Group, Gilead; Mandy Davis Aitken, Vice President, Meetings, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); and Erika Michalski, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Encouragement Officer, Strategically Authentic.
Every year Pharma Forum brings together meeting professionals and service providers such as hoteliers, DMCs, and CVBs from across the globe to connect and discuss critical industry updates, with the goal of collaborating on actionable insights and strategies to build the next generation of budget conscious, sustainable, inclusive, and successful medical and life science meetings and events.
The 2024 agenda focused on multiple topics for various levels of meeting professionals, with major themes around:
- AI and the impact on the future of meetings and events and how to implement it into administrative tasks for efficiency.
- Best practices for congress development and collaboration, including building the optimal congress strategy, measuring return, and HCP engagement.
- Health and wellness initiatives for planner well-being and preventing burnout.
This post-event eBook showcases a number of the featured topics shared throughout the four days in Tampa. Read on to get a sense of what the buzz was like on-site and learn more about the industry-shaping discussions that were shared at Pharma Forum.
We hope to see you next year at Pharma Forum 2025 in Boston, March 23-26.
Click to read eBook: Pharma Forum 2024 Post-event Report
