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Success Story: How to Expand Recruitment Training Capability Using VALTs to Support Virtual Events

The Event A pharmaceutical company, launching a global-wide Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) study, needed to host an investigator meeting (IM) series as well as a recruitment training series. The Challenge Given the large scale of the study, combined with the challenges of the pandemic, the client needed to proceed with the investigator meetings and recruitment trainings while also providing flexibility and accessibility to site staff and sites involved in the study. Due to the complexity of this study involving OCD, the specialized training involved the interaction and management of patients from...

6 Reasons On-Demand Training Should Be Part of Your Training Strategy

The ways in which companies can use on-demand training are virtually endless. If you want to expand your training capabilities, on-demand training is a cost-effective tool that can help accomplish all of your training goals. If you’ve not tried on-demand training as a way to streamline your training, here are six compelling reasons why you should: 1). Engagement with content over time makes training more effective. Meeting over a few days may not be enough for knowledge retention among your audience. The most effective training is one that engages your audience...

Success Story: In-Person Event Pivots to Virtual & Expands Reach by 2,100%

Using the best-in-class virtual technology options, MTA’s expert Global Experience Team worked closely with our client to design and deliver a flawlessly executed virtual experience for 2300+ remote attendees.

The Benefits of Hybrid Events

What is a Hybrid Event? Essentially, a hybrid event is any combination of a face-to-face and virtual or digital experience. You might have a 5,000-person virtual event with 20 people joining in person in one location. Or you might have 100 people face-to-face in meeting rooms and 100 people attending virtually online. Or you could have 5000 attendees with a live speaker being recorded and filmed at a remote location. These are just a few examples of the countless options that hybrid events can offer. Bottom line: With hybrid meetings,...

What HCPs Really Want from Your Investigator Meeting

With over 23 years of experience planning investigator meetings, Miller Tanner Associates has learned a lot about what makes a successful medical meeting for both the host and the attendees. We survey every participant so that we can give our clients specific direction as to what attendees really desire from an investigator meeting. Here are a few ways you can deliver an exceptional meeting to your healthcare professional (HCP) attendees.

Reasons to Hire a Pharmaceutical Event Planner

The biggest challenge for biopharma companies when it comes to planning events may be the lack of internal staff to handle such an undertaking from start to finish. Not to mention, understanding the nuances associated with many moving parts can complicate the planning process. That’s where Miller Tanner comes in as a one-stop-shop with proven processes for all things meeting planning related. While some companies have meeting and event planning specialists and/or travel services within their own organizations, these resources may be too stretched to take on a “big” meeting. Likewise,...

Success Story: Business Pitch Competition Goes Virtual

The Event A face-to-face (F2F) or LIVE event format for a business pitch competition that successfully pivots to a screen-to-screen (S2S) or virtual event format for the same business pitch competition. The Challenge Historically, the annual pitch competition had taken place at the organization’s LIVE event; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pitch competition had to be transformed into a highly-engaging virtual event while still delivering the presenters’ messaging, captivating the panelists, and engaging the remote audience. As the presenters were located in various U.S. cities, communication and coordination...

Meet MTA: Jesse Torres, Senior Software Engineer

The Miller Tanner (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that bring our corporate meetings and events to life for our clients. Today we introduce you to Jesse Torres, a senior software engineer with MTA Technology Services. Jesse is one of our tech masterminds behind our event management products: EPICTM, VALTsTM, and AttendTM. Meet MTA: Jesse Torres Tell us about your current role with MTA? I’m a senior software engineer. My responsibilities include developing new features to extend MTA products in order to streamline the...

How to Combat Virtual Meeting Fatigue

With months of meeting only virtually, are you beginning to experience “virtual meeting fatigue”? It’s actually a real thing, according to recent studies. Virtual meetings have become an ever-present part of the working world for several years, but there is no question that the events of 2020 greatly accelerated the shift in how and where we collaborate. With companies transitioning to working remotely, meeting virtually is no longer just an option – it’s often a necessity. While there are certainly many great benefits of virtual meetings, there are also drawbacks. One...

5 Essentials for Incentive Travel Programs

Miller Tanner Associates knows first hand the value of recognizing, rewarding, and investing in employees through internal incentive programs. We aren’t the only ones who know the value. In fact, Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) conducted a study which concluded that incentive travel programs strongly impact: The Impact of Incentive Programs This research conducted by IRF determined that the combination of the following five essential elements defines the core of the successful travel program: The study also found that in order to maximize the benefit of an incentive travel program it...