Bridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va., and the American Purchasing Society, Aurora, Ill., have formed a strategic partnership providing...
Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the United States is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. Corporate travel and meeting buyers gathered May 7 to discuss challenges to multinational SMMPs at a panel discussion...
Anyone who would select “When The End Is Not in Sight” as a title must be in the midst of something and not be able to predict or see the ending of it...
Developing preferred supplier agreements and standardizing the site selection process are just some of the ways Kelli Livers, director of global meetings services at AIG, is improving the bottom line...
Jack Eichhorn has seen both sides of the equation. Having made the shift about a year ago from meeting planner at another high-tech company to procurement exec at Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, Eichhorn is well-versed in the nuances of the...
Approximately 40 senior planners from more than 20 pharmaceutical companies conducted a closed-door summit during the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Summit, co-organized by Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence and held March...
As we move into the second quarter of 2007, all of us — meeting planners and suppliers — are facing many challenges. Some of the challenges are anticipated and planned, but new ones seem to be cropping up every day. The “squeaky wheel” vies for...
As a 25-year veteran of the pharmaceutical meetings industry, Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, is familiar with the perception that many meeting professionals have of event marketing — that it's about glitz and parties and that it's not their bailiwick...
