YOUR #1 PODIATRIC MEETING RESOURCE
PodiatryMeetings.com provides podiatric physicians and meeting exhibitors access to critical information to help choose and plan for which podiatric meetings, conferences, and seminars to attend.
We also strive to provide meeting planners/organizers with vital information to help with future meeting scheduling, as well as share feedback to continue to make meeting progress.
With an extensive meeting calendar, meeting ratings/feedback (from both DPMs and exhibitors), and travel tips, PodiatryMeetings.com is your top source of all-things podiatry meetings.
YOUR #1 PODIATRIC MEETING RESOURCE
PodiatryMeetings.com provides podiatric physicians and meeting exhibitors access to critical information to help choose and plan for which podiatric meetings, conferences, and seminars to attend.
We also strive to provide meeting planners/organizers with vital information to help with future meeting scheduling, as well as share feedback to continue to make meeting progress.
With an extensive meeting calendar, meeting ratings/feedback (from both DPMs and exhibitors), and travel tips, PodiatryMeetings.com is your top source of all-things podiatry meetings.
UPCOMING EVENTS…
Heading to a meeting soon? Be sure to check out our TRAVEL TIPS before you go!
We have some great advice for getting around and enjoying your trip(s) to several popular meeting destination cities!
UPCOMING EVENTS…
Heading to a meeting soon? Be sure to check out our TRAVEL TIPS before you go!
We have some great advice for getting around and enjoying your trip(s) to several popular meeting destination cities!
VISIT OUR VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE
Our Online Marketplace keeps DPMs connected with their trusted vendors all year long. Now DPMs can learn about new products and services, as well as outstanding BOOTH SPECIALS – directly from the home and/or office!
Our current exhibit it hall includes providers of the following products/services:
Class IV Laser | Marketing | Orthotics | Pathology Services | Surgical Instruments | Wound Care | Dispensing
VISIT OUR VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE
Our Online Marketplace keeps DPMs connected with their trusted vendors all year long. Now DPMs can learn about new products and services, as well as outstanding BOOTH SPECIALS – directly from the home and/or office!
Our current exhibit it hall includes providers of the following products/services:
Class IV Laser | Marketing | Orthotics | Pathology Services | Surgical Instruments | Wound Care | Dispensing
LATEST ARTICLES
Tricks of the Trade for DPMs
Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
We've hit on this concept in a different way before... meaning, we've previously recommended that you mix up your meeting choices in an effort to experience new ideas (i.e. hear faculty members you've never heard before; attend a niche meeting to sharpen your skills in a specific area; try more management meetings [...]
Getting Back to the Good ‘Ole Days
For the last 18 months, most of the seminars you’ve attended have been virtual. In-person meetings are returning, but attendees have gotten used to being able to earn credits and learn new skills, all while still staying to see patients and have dinner at home. The "old days" of [...]
Making Changes YOU Choose
This month, Ann's tip for meeting planners got my brain in gear about the same topic. She stated, one of the phrases she and I love to hate is, "we've always done it that way." If you want to see my unfiltered eye roll, that's one of the phrases you [...]
Tricks of the Trade for Vendors
Start with Your Goal
Before deciding on conference sponsorships or add-on opportunities, you must determine your goal for the meeting. Is it booth traffic, scientific podium time, brand visibility, generating a buzz? If you are a brand-new company, you need to make a splash. You need your logo EVERYWHERE. Send as many representatives as you [...]
Try Adding in Some Fun!
Recently, Sarah and I held our first round of “Experienced Exhibitor Mastermind” focus groups. We spoke with many different types podiatry meeting exhibitors to discuss ideas on how meeting organizers can enhance the exhibitor experience. I always love hosting idea-sharing sessions like these because inevitably other solutions come to mind [...]
Patience is a Virtue
One of the things that I know we're all guilty of is jumping the gun on evaluating the effectiveness of a particular meeting. Most of the time, we base the effectiveness on the amount of on-site sales we achieved. That is a very fair and very important metric; but this [...]
Tricks of the Trade for Meeting Planners
Improve Your Digital Branding Offerings
Have you been disappointed by the lack of interest in your organization’s digital branding opportunities for exhibitors and sponsors? Sarah and I have been having many discussions with our exhibitor colleagues lately and one of the topics we’ve been focusing on is the current branding opportunities available to exhibitors at [...]
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner
During our Experienced Exhibitor Mastermind sessions, the focus was to brainstorm strategies meeting planners can implement to improve the exhibitor experience. Let me tell you, we came up with a TON of solid gold genius ideas. No way am I going to tell you all of them in one article! However, I [...]
Creating Fun and Inspired Environments
Over the last several days, Ann and I have had multiple conversations with exhibitors to gain insight which will could help meeting planners better understand how they can improve the exhibitor experience at their events. During that conversation, one of several interesting comments was made... to better communicate it, I [...]
LATEST ARTICLES
Tricks of the Trade for DPMs
Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
We've hit on this concept in a different way before... meaning, we've previously recommended that you mix up your meeting choices in an effort to experience new ideas (i.e. hear faculty members you've never heard before; attend a niche meeting to sharpen your skills in a specific area; try more management meetings [...]
Getting Back to the Good ‘Ole Days
For the last 18 months, most of the seminars you’ve attended have been virtual. In-person meetings are returning, but attendees have gotten used to being able to earn credits and learn new skills, all while still staying to see patients and have dinner at home. The "old days" of [...]
Making Changes YOU Choose
This month, Ann's tip for meeting planners got my brain in gear about the same topic. She stated, one of the phrases she and I love to hate is, "we've always done it that way." If you want to see my unfiltered eye roll, that's one of the phrases you [...]
Tricks of the Trade for Vendors
Start with Your Goal
Before deciding on conference sponsorships or add-on opportunities, you must determine your goal for the meeting. Is it booth traffic, scientific podium time, brand visibility, generating a buzz? If you are a brand-new company, you need to make a splash. You need your logo EVERYWHERE. Send as many representatives as you [...]
Try Adding in Some Fun!
Recently, Sarah and I held our first round of “Experienced Exhibitor Mastermind” focus groups. We spoke with many different types podiatry meeting exhibitors to discuss ideas on how meeting organizers can enhance the exhibitor experience. I always love hosting idea-sharing sessions like these because inevitably other solutions come to mind [...]
Patience is a Virtue
One of the things that I know we're all guilty of is jumping the gun on evaluating the effectiveness of a particular meeting. Most of the time, we base the effectiveness on the amount of on-site sales we achieved. That is a very fair and very important metric; but this [...]
Tricks of the Trade for Meeting Planners
Improve Your Digital Branding Offerings
Have you been disappointed by the lack of interest in your organization’s digital branding opportunities for exhibitors and sponsors? Sarah and I have been having many discussions with our exhibitor colleagues lately and one of the topics we’ve been focusing on is the current branding opportunities available to exhibitors at [...]
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner
During our Experienced Exhibitor Mastermind sessions, the focus was to brainstorm strategies meeting planners can implement to improve the exhibitor experience. Let me tell you, we came up with a TON of solid gold genius ideas. No way am I going to tell you all of them in one article! However, I [...]
Creating Fun and Inspired Environments
Over the last several days, Ann and I have had multiple conversations with exhibitors to gain insight which will could help meeting planners better understand how they can improve the exhibitor experience at their events. During that conversation, one of several interesting comments was made... to better communicate it, I [...]
MEETING TESTIMONIALS
The SAM conference is one of my personal favorites. This year definitely seemed a bit slower as far as traffic in the exhibit hall but registration numbers were good. I did feel that organization and communication were a bit lacking this year. Also, typically we can register for the next year’s conference on site at the current conference and I don’t think that was an option this year. It helps to pre-register when it comes to these larger conferences. The Disney Coronado Springs was a beautiful venue. A lot of walking from the room to the conference center but the weather was delightful so it wasn’t a problem. Also, as an exhibitor there are a lot of costs involved at any conference, it would have been a nice gesture if the conference coordinator would’ve taken time to come to each booth and say thank you.
Excellent meeting with variety of lectures given by knowledgeable and charismatic clinicians.
Interesting and different content. All relevant to practicing Podiatric surgeons
Amount of credit commensurate with hours of lectures and price.
Chicago is never the cheapest but it is easy to get to from anywhere and the accommodations and organization was more than adequate.
Excellent meeting would attend again.
Excellent program
Everyone interested in Minimal invasive foot surgery needs to attend
This meeting, like wound care conferences is extremely well organized. For all three days the attendees are in the exhibit hall, the vendors are slammed with visitors. Great conversations with attendees, who seem genuinely interested in the products offered. The exhibit hall is open for three hours each day, which makes for a good day not only for vendors but attendees as well. We always come back from this meeting feeling very positive and that our goals met.
Highly organized, on time , excellent mix of content.
New Port is an excellent venue, easily accessible from the north and South. Had nice mix of doctors from New York and New England.
Engaging exhibitors , excellent opportunity to see new technology and order office supplies from old favorites.
very beneficial and relatable to everyday practice and patient visits. A very handy workbook was also dispensed
The exhibit hall had some traffic the entire time; never a moment of complete silence like many shows. Hours for exhibit hall was the perfect amount – two full days is all you need. Shipping exhibit materials was easy and convenient.
I thought it was very well organized. I learned quite a bit and will incorporate into my practice.
I would’ve liked the potential to be more than 25 hours and I would’ve liked more surgical topics.
I would’ve liked more companies for more surgical products
All in all I thought the quality of the seminar in the talks were excellent. Well organized with experience speakers
The hands on workshops bring the program to a higher level. You don’t just hear the lectures but you practice on the products.
We were unsure how the schedule change would be received but it seem fine. Wednesdays scheduled exhibit hall closure in the afternoon was pointless. We stayed at our booth because our booth traffic did not stop. There was grumbling about the reception Wednesday evening and the cost of the drinks.
MEETING TESTIMONIALS
The SAM conference is one of my personal favorites. This year definitely seemed a bit slower as far as traffic in the exhibit hall but registration numbers were good. I did feel that organization and communication were a bit lacking this year. Also, typically we can register for the next year’s conference on site at the current conference and I don’t think that was an option this year. It helps to pre-register when it comes to these larger conferences. The Disney Coronado Springs was a beautiful venue. A lot of walking from the room to the conference center but the weather was delightful so it wasn’t a problem. Also, as an exhibitor there are a lot of costs involved at any conference, it would have been a nice gesture if the conference coordinator would’ve taken time to come to each booth and say thank you.
Excellent meeting with variety of lectures given by knowledgeable and charismatic clinicians.
Interesting and different content. All relevant to practicing Podiatric surgeons
Amount of credit commensurate with hours of lectures and price.
Chicago is never the cheapest but it is easy to get to from anywhere and the accommodations and organization was more than adequate.
Excellent meeting would attend again.
Excellent program
Everyone interested in Minimal invasive foot surgery needs to attend
This meeting, like wound care conferences is extremely well organized. For all three days the attendees are in the exhibit hall, the vendors are slammed with visitors. Great conversations with attendees, who seem genuinely interested in the products offered. The exhibit hall is open for three hours each day, which makes for a good day not only for vendors but attendees as well. We always come back from this meeting feeling very positive and that our goals met.
Highly organized, on time , excellent mix of content.
New Port is an excellent venue, easily accessible from the north and South. Had nice mix of doctors from New York and New England.
Engaging exhibitors , excellent opportunity to see new technology and order office supplies from old favorites.
very beneficial and relatable to everyday practice and patient visits. A very handy workbook was also dispensed
The exhibit hall had some traffic the entire time; never a moment of complete silence like many shows. Hours for exhibit hall was the perfect amount – two full days is all you need. Shipping exhibit materials was easy and convenient.
I thought it was very well organized. I learned quite a bit and will incorporate into my practice.
I would’ve liked the potential to be more than 25 hours and I would’ve liked more surgical topics.
I would’ve liked more companies for more surgical products
All in all I thought the quality of the seminar in the talks were excellent. Well organized with experience speakers
The hands on workshops bring the program to a higher level. You don’t just hear the lectures but you practice on the products.
We were unsure how the schedule change would be received but it seem fine. Wednesdays scheduled exhibit hall closure in the afternoon was pointless. We stayed at our booth because our booth traffic did not stop. There was grumbling about the reception Wednesday evening and the cost of the drinks.