Insights and advice from leaders of local and state biomedical associations
How Can You Attract Attendees To Your Symposium or Conference?
Fred Jaramillo
President, Colorado Association of Biomedical Equipment Technicians
First of all, you need to have good and diversified classes/training for healthcare technology management professionals. You need to mix up training with professional development and technical training. Second, we encourage the members to bring their families to the symposium dinner. Members get to share their profession with their loved ones, and we give some great prizes to the kids. It is always fun to see a kid win a prize.
Alison Lauer
President, North Carolina Biomedical Association
We offer classes/courses that will be beneficial to the technicians as well as the facilities where they work. We survey our attendees each year to ask them what they want, and then we do our best to offer the classes requested by the majority. We also try to keep the costs to attend as low as possible, as education budgets are one of the first to be reduced in a hospital. We have kept our attendee rates the same for the last three years. Lastly, we also incorporate one fun event.
Gus Sakis
Executive Chair, California Medical Instrumentation Association
I believe the best way is provide top-notch sessions, networking opportunities, good food, fun things to do such as bowling, access to over 80 of our loyal and supportive corporate members/manufacturers and service providers, and provide all of it for FREE.