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Associations World Congress 2022

5 – 7 September 2022 Lisbon, Portugal Congress

Monday 5 September

MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
Medical Associations Meeting Sponsored by
13:00	Medical Associations Lunch
14:00	Welcome & Introductions Meeting Leader: Inbar Caspi Association Expert & Congress Director Inbar Caspi Consultancy Inbar Caspi Association Expert & Congress Director Inbar Caspi Consultancy Inbar Caspi is a strategist, associations consultant and congress expert. Her main specialty is leading associations through change. With more than 20 years of experience, working with over 60 associations and managing more than 170 association congresses, Inbar is a forward thinker who see future trends, translate them to action while hedging the risks and maximize potential. She is the former Managing Director of Kenes UK. For the past 7 years, Inbar has been supporting Medical Associations that organise their congress in-house or wish to take more ownership on their key activity while reaching their goals for growth, profit, education and building community. In this capacity, she has worked with and managed in-house the congresses of some of the largest associations in Europe such as the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), the European Pain Federation (EFIC), and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). Sessions Medical Associations Meeting Monday @ 2:00 PM LinkedIn: inbar-caspi/ Lars Kristiansen Executive Director International Brain Research Organization Lars Kristiansen Executive Director International Brain Research Organization No bio provided Sessions Medical Associations Meeting Monday @ 2:00 PM
14:10	Value & Relevance to Members Post-pandemic Associations were of great support to their members during the pandemic, however many are not seeing a return to previous levels of non-event engagement or commitment with their members. It seems that we need to reconsider what our audience needs post pandemic and how we can increase the value of our association in their eyes. During this session, we examine what other medical and scientific associations are experiencing and how they are addressing those challenges. Particularly please share with us your stories and case studies of how associations measure engagement and commitment and have overcome or have set in plan to overcome these challenges: Our audience needs - How can we evaluate our audience needs refocus our benefits and expend our value in different stages of their careers. Ways to asses and measure level and type of engagement – what are actions that increase or reduce the level of engagement Competition – how to set our unique value and contribution within our field Reach a wider audience beyond our members – are we giving value only to our members or to a wider community of professionals and how we increase our reach Are members reverting to their national societies / associations, where membership is often a requirement to practice?
15:30	Refreshment & Networking Break
16:00	Conferences: Post-pandemic challenges The huge switch to online events has seen a swing back to hybrid and even physical-only, but what is the long-term vision for medical and scientific meetings and how we keep our mandate of being the forefront of science and education in an era where knowledge is available everywhere. During this session, we examine what other medical associations have achieved online and in hybrid models and how they see the future of events. Particularly please share with us your stories and case studies of how your associations meetings overcome the challenges of Covid, how does your post pandemic/future congress are structured: What does the future event portfolio look like for medical associations: Physical > Hybrid > Online Did the Hybrid model expend our reach for new audiences? The budget challenges of producing events online and onsite in parallel How we attract sponsor and exhibitors to invest in the online aspect of our meetings Has a greater online attendance (over previous mostly physical) necessitated more online events for the future, and what do these look like? How social media effected our meeting – how the immediate communication and the need to immediately react to feedback/criticism changed our behavior
17:30	Medical Associations Meeting Closes
MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER - Main Congress Starts
17:00	Registration Opens At the congress centre, Altice Arena
18:30	Transfers to Welcome Reception Transfers by coach from the Altice Arena to the reception will leave at 18:45 prompt, and return coaches at the end.
19:00	Welcome Reception at the Pátio da Galé & Sala do Risco Sponsored by Lisbon Tourism
19:45	Welcome Dinners Transfers depart the Welcome Reception to these dinners, hosted by Austria Netherlands Pixl8 Interplan