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Zambia Not Just Building a Medical City, but a Reason for the World to Visit

Zambia makes the connection between its planned healthcare infrastructure investment and opportunities to develop conference facilities, attract international visitors and establish a wider medical and tourism destination — demonstrating how major healthcare projects can also create opportunities for meetings, business events and destination development. From Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, Government of Zambia…

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How a Neuroscience Congress Left Glasgow With More Than an Economic Footprint

The 37th World Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology, held at Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus in June, brought roughly 800 delegates to the city, but then let brain science loose on the unsuspecting Scottish public, via a giant inflatable brain, attracting 5000 people to learn more about brain health and how our most sophisticated organ functions. From Boardroom…

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ICCA’s Future of Healthcare Meetings Calls for Radical Relationships Rethink

Association leaders and meetings industry professionals gathered in Athens for the latest edition of ICCA’s Future of Healthcare Meetings, held 20-22 September at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, with a clear message: stop calling it sponsorship, use AI strategically and rethink supplier-buyer relationships. From Boardroom…

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Nothing About Us Without Us

  • Published: 14th September 2026
  • Host Destination: Global

This is a story about inclusion in its truest sense: not simply being welcomed into the room, but having the authority to shape what happens within it. It is a story about the World Down Syndrome Congress, and what happens when the people a field exists for become the experts shaping it. By Ksenija Polla…

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TFI Lodestar Unlocks Greater Impact for BSF LIVE’25 Through Destination Partnership

When a late scheduling change threatened to disrupt BSG LIVE’25, TFI Lodestar united with Glasgow Convention Bureau and the Scottish Event Campus to turn challenges into opportunities. Discover how destination collaboration boosted international attendance, enhanced accessibility, championed sustainability and extended health education into the local community, creating lasting impact beyond the congress. From IAPCO…

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Adelaide’s Focus on the Strategic Strengths of Its State Economy

  • Published: 1st September 2026
  • Host Destination: Australia

COO of Business Events Adelaide Tony Saulters explains how his bureau focuses on the world-class specialisations in his destination when determining which events to target, assessing their potential importance not just on delegate numbers and expenditure, but on their capacity to drive inward investment and talent acquisition, and the extent to which they can facilitate…

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The IHPBA 2026 Legacy Project: Addressing Regional Disparities in Liver Cancer Care

  • Published: 27th August 2026
  • Host Destination: Global

Winner of the 2026 Incredible Impacts Programme Seed Fund Grant, the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) World Congress 2026 will focus on the ‘IHPBA 2026 Legacy Project’, which addresses regional disparities in Hepatocellular carcinoma care across the Asia-Pacific region and low- and middle-income countries. This initiative aims to improve equity through frameworks, policy leadership, and regional…

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Copenhagen Health Innovation Week: Leveraging Co-Located Summits for a Life Science Legacy

Denmark’s life science sector accounts for approximately 20% of total national exports, backed by a national strategy through 2030 designed to enhance research capacity, improve framework conditions, and elevate global competitiveness. A major cornerstone of this strategy was the 2025 launch of Innovation District Copenhagen (IDC), a closely connected public–private hub bringing together 40,000 researchers,…

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Breakthrough Science and Global Collaboration Define PTCOG 64 in Deauville

A highlight of PTCOG 64 was the tour of CYCLHAD and the Caen Cancer Center, providing attendees with an opportunity to visit one of Europe’s most innovative particle therapy and research facilities and observe cutting-edge technologies, demonstrating that often the most important elements of international conferences take place outside the main venue. From Kenes Group…

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Montreal: Local Community Impacts Can Occur Long After the Congress Leaves Town

A year after global sexual health specialists gathered at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, the STI & HIV 2025 World Congress continues to bear fruit. A financial surplus of C$55,151.77 has been given to six Montréal community organisations working in sexual health, a wonderful example of the lasting legacy international conferences can leave.

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CRISPR Medicine 2026: Accelerating Access to Life-Saving Gene Therapies

Across Europe, more than 36 million people live with rare genetic diseases, many caused by single-gene mutations that have historically left patients with severe, life-limiting conditions and no effective treatments. While breakthrough CRISPR technology can now correct faulty DNA to treat genetic causes, there are barriers to these scientific advances reaching everyday clinical practice. Fragmented…

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PCMA Sector Report | Healthcare & Life Sciences

  • Published: 20th July 2026
  • Host Destination: Global

PCMA’s newly released report provides in-depth analysis of the trends, market dynamics, innovation priorities, and stakeholder perspectives shaping one of the world’s fastest-evolving sectors. Combining sector intelligence, community insights, and practical implementation tools, the report equips event professionals, destinations, and suppliers with actionable strategies to make more informed business and event decisions.

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Meetings Don’t Just Mean Business; They Mean Cures! Don’t Empty The Room!

  • Published: 13th July 2026
  • Host Destination: USA

David Adler takes a critical look at the threat to scientific and medical meetings should US federal regulation OMB-2026-0034 go ahead, prohibiting grant recipients from attending conferences not named in the original grant proposal (in practice, an impossibility!). David also brilliantly articulates the processes by which face-to-face meetings generate scientific insights and progress.

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20 September 2026

ICCA Future of Healthcare Meetings 2026, Athens, Greece

  • Event Date: 20th September 2026 to 22nd September 2026
  • Host Destination: Athens Greece

ICCA is proud to announce the ICCA Future of Healthcare Meetings will take place on 20-22 September 2026, in Athens, Greece. The meetings will bring together all stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, healthcare association leaders and meeting suppliers, to collaboratively explore how healthcare meetings should evolve to stay relevant and engaging for future generations.

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6 December 2026

ICCA Association Pharmaceutical Compliance Masterclass, Düsseldorf, Germany

The ICCA Pharma Compliance Training takes place for the first time in December 2026, bringing together representatives of medical and pharmaceutical associations for two intensive days of learning, exchange and best‑practice sharing in Düsseldorf, a dynamic healthcare and life sciences hub. Open to association professionals who are event leads and meet the criteria.

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Wellington WONCA Conference Delivers Rural Health Legacies

The WONCA Conference resulted in action for local and global rural health sectors, with the launch of The Aotearoa New Zealand Declaration on Rural Health 2026, a national roadmap setting out six priority areas to strengthen rural health systems, and a global initiative focusing on international collaboration, policy advocacy and sharing practical solutions. From TTGmice…

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Copenhagen’s Life Science Meetings Edge

Copenhagen’s life science congresses are being asked to do more than convene international specialists. Through Valuable Meetings⁠, a MeetDenmark⁠ project supported by the Danish Board of Business Development, the city is exploring how congresses can become active platforms for sector development, connecting global associations with Danish research, healthcare, companies and innovation networks. From Boardroom…

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UChicago Medicine Highlights Research, Leadership, Clinical Advances at ASCO 2026

UChicago Medicine demonstrates how universities can utilise their participation at major events to showcase the excellence of their researchers, labs and departments, whilst highlighting how their academic work creates important value and impact for wider society. The 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting provides a clear example of how this can be achieved.

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ESGO Leaves a Legacy Behind in Copenhagen at Annual Congress

Held alongside the 2026 European Congress on Gynaecological Oncology, the ESGO Legacy event convened leading experts, policymakers, patient advocates and industry representatives in Copenhagen to advance sustainable improvements in women’s cancer care. “Imagine a Europe where your address no longer determines your survival,” outgoing ESGO Vice-President Associate Professor Maja Pakiz said as she opened the…

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Small Event, Big Impact: Intellectual Capital in Action

  • Published: 20th May 2026
  • Host Destination: Canada

Destination Canada’s three-year Legacy & Impact Study highlights the long-term economic, social and environmental benefits of major events hosted in Canada. This case study examines how the 11th International Conference on Isotopes (ICI) leveraged Saskatoon’s nuclear expertise to respond to instability in global isotope supply, vital to healthcare and food security worldwide.     The…

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24th International AIDS Conference, Montréal, Québec, 2022

The 24th International AIDS Conference represented a significant moment in the global HIV response, uniting researchers, policymakers, clinicians and people living with HIV. For the International AIDS Society, it was an opportunity to accelerate scientific evidence and global solidarity. For local stakeholders, it mobilized the pursuit of renewed advocacy and expanded service access.

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