Attendee Registration

Schedule of Events

Education Sessions

Hotel Information

Who Attends?

Exhibitor Information

Sponsor Information

Pricing and Dates

 

Early Registration Deadline: May 25, 2012

HCEA's Annual Meeting is the only educational conference in North America that focuses solely on the unique needs of both healthcare exhibit marketers and medical meeting organizers.

Keynote Speaker

James Spellos to Keynote 2012 HCEA Annual Meeting
Meetings social media expert James Spellos, CMP, President of Meeting U., will deliver the keynote address at the 2012 HCEA Annual Meeting, to be held June 23-26, in Orlando. Spellos will challenge attendees to explore how social media has enhanced communications related to face-to-face meetings.

Education Preview

Forward-thinking learning opportunities developed by industry leaders and peers helps you in all aspects of your personal and professional growth. Take a Sneak Peek

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. Education offerings include sessions for individuals just starting out in the industry, as well as for professionals who already have industry experience.

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

• Regulatory and Compliance
• Measurement
• Marketing
• Event Logistics and Planning
• Global
• Technology
• Professional/Personal Development
• Take a sneak peak at the preliminary list of sessions.

 

Community Outreach Project: Give Kids the World

Please arrange your HCEA Orlando trip to arrive in time by 7:00 a.m., Saturday, June 23, for scheduled charity events. Join other HCEA colleagues who will be supporting families and their children dealing with life threatening illness in a 70-acre village called Give Kids the World.
Learn More

 

Golf Outing

Join your fellow HCEA members to Chip for Charity in this year's HCEA Annual Golf Outing.  We will be playing the world famous ChampionsGate course in Orlando, FL to help raise money for the Give Kids the World Village a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children with life-threatening illnesses. Learn More

 

Registration Pricing

For budgetary planning, the following early registration discount rates and regular registration rates will be available through the dates listed below. Register Online

	Super Saver Registration Deadline- April 27, 2012	Early Registration Deadline- May 25, 2012	Regular Registration
Associate Member	$620	$720	$820
Regular Member	$670	$770	$870
Supporting Member	$1,070	$1,170	$1,270
Associate Non-Member	$840	$940	$1,040
Regular Non-Member	$890	$990	$1,090
Supporting Non-Member	$1,290	$1,390	$1,490

 

Hotel Information

The Peabody Orlando
9801 International Drive
Orlando, FL 32819
www.peabodyorlando.com
Room Rate: $179

To make your hotel reservations, please call:

• 1-(407)-352-4000
• Toll free: 1-(800)-PEABODY (1-800-732-2639)
• Hotel Reservations Online

Note: A portion of the hotel room rate for the HCEA Annual Meeting is returned to HCEA in the form of a commission used to help defray costs of the meeting.

Overflow Hotel

Westin Imagine Orlando
Room Rate: $159
Reservation call-in number: 888-627-7815
www. westinimagineorlando.com

 

Note: We have been made aware that a number of our members have been contacted, either by phone or email, by various third party housing services offering to assist you with making your hotel reservations for the 2012 Annual Meeting at area hotels in Orlando.  At least one of these communications that has been brought to our attention appears to imply that a relationship exists between the company and HCEA. Please be aware that no third party housing service is authorized to act on behalf of either HCEA or the Peabody Orlando.