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Testimonial

  • "The 2009 HCEA Annual Meeting will provide attendees with the healthcare-specific solutions they need to navigate through the latest industry developments. As I do every year, I plan to take full advantage of HCEA's powerful Annual Meeting educational program to provide information that will be beneficial in succeeding in today's challenging environment."
  • Karen Prieto, Director, Convention Marketing & Meeting Services
    Forest Laboratories, Inc.

Exhibitors & Sponsors

HCEA 2010 Annual Meeting

Big Challenge. Big Opportunity. Big Easy. 

June 26-29, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana
Morial Convention Center

The HCEA Annual Meeting is the must-attend industry event of 2010 for all healthcare exhibit and convention marketers, medical association exhibit managers and medical meeting planners. The HCEA Annual Meeting is your source of industry enlightenment, knowledge and connecting with your peers from the world's leading healthcare exhibiting companies and medical associations. And, you can earn credits toward your CME designation while you learn and see the latest industry technology.


Who Attends?

  • Healthcare convention and exhibit marketers, managers and coordinators.
  • Medical association show organizers and exhibit managers.
  • Medical meeting planners.
  • Exhibit and convention industry product and service companies.
  • Pharma, medical device and biotech marketers, in general.
  • CVB and Destination Marketers

Strengthen Your Knowledge

A quarter of the entire meetings and conventions industry — the largest segment — is comprised of healthcare-related shows. While healthcare conventions and exhibitions represent a significant portion of the industry, they also represent a very unique convention marketing niche.

Pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech and many other healthcare-related industries operate within a marketing environment where rules and regulations are uniquely strict. As such, the marketing mix must be highly strategic, and exhibiting plays a key role in this mix.

Enhance Your Exhibit Marketing Skills

Healthcare exhibiting is experiential. It provides the ability to educate and demonstrate in a one-on-one environment, and it can use a combination of every form of media.

While all marketing mix options are valuable in their own way, convention and exhibit marketing is the only one that combines them all. This represents both a tremendous challenge and valuable opportunities.

Featured Education Tracks

  • Pharma
  • Medical Device
  • Association-Specific
  • Senior-Level/Advanced
  • Regulatory & Compliance
  • Marketing Strategies & Tactics
  • Global
  • Case Studies
  • Measurement
  • Budgeting
  • Exhibit Logistics & Planning
  • Meeting & Event Planning
  • Personal Development

Education Designed for Level of Experience

  • Level 1: Recommended for those with 1-3 years of experience in healthcare exhibiting.

  • Level 2: Recommended for those with 4-7 years of experience in healthcare exhibiting.

  • Level 3: Recommended for those with 8+ years of experience in healthcare exhibiting.

 

Thank You to Our 2009 Annual Meeting Sponsors

Grand Patron

Diamond Sponsors

Freeman

 

Platinum Sponsors

a2z

 Access
Exhibitgroup Giltspur ExpoBadge
Hamilton Exhibits PSAV Convention and Trade Show Services
 

Gold Sponsors

  • 3D Exhibits
  • AD-EX International, Inc.
  • Barrett Moving - Agent for United Van Lines 
  • Champion Exposition Services
  • Convention Plant Designs, Inc.
  • Derse
  • Exhibit Concepts
  • Exposures, Ltd.
  • GWF Associates, LLC
  • Impact Unlimited
  • Lynch Exhibits
  • New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • Novartis
  • PMSI - Professional Marketing Services, Inc.
  • SelliQuest
  • Tampa Bay & Company
  • Tampa Marriott Waterside
  • UniversalProcon, Inc.

Silver Sponsors

  • A. Fassano & Company
  • Czarnowski
  • D&J Electronics
  • Gallo Displays
  • Hill & Partners
  • MC2
  • Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention & Visitors Bureau

Bronze Sponsors

  • Ark Media, Inc.
  • AV Dimensions
  • Ardent Impressions
  • Bard Access Systems
  • Blue Telescope
  • Cal Ostlund Exhibits
  • Coastal International Exhibit Services
  • Convention Models and Talent
  • Elements
  • General Graphics Exhibits
  • H.B. Stubbs Companies
  • Live Marketing
  • MEDRAD
  • Willwork Exhibit & Event Services
  • Wyeth

President's Circle

  • Andrews/United Van Lines
  • EWI Worldwide
  • Marketech
  • On Location
  • WordUp!