Facilitate can provide a complete logistics service for all the meetings described here. Key points to note are:

• We have an online registration system that allows physicians and client personnel to register via our web site, and our clients to view attendance status.
• We have one of the best delegate management software programs which we use to run events more efficiently.
• Audiovisual support is provided either by local suppliers (sometimes with a UK producer) or through our network partners, AVT.

We know our limitations too, so we will not take on any event that we feel is beyond our current capabilities.

This map shows where Facilitate has organized meetings since 2002, although the company personnel have considerably wider experience of venues all around the world.

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Meetings organized by Facilitate
Meeting organized in conjunction with our network partners, Med-Ed Link

These meetings help secure valuable commercial advice from external experts. Using our experience we work as a catalyst between industry and medical professionals to ensure that objectives are met. Our knowledge of exclusive venues for these important meetings spans Europe, Africa, and North and South America. Facilitate will help you with the faculty selection and recruitment process, in briefing the chair, and in developing the format and agenda for the meeting. For some useful insights into Advisory Board, please download our fact sheet.

Symposia are an effective means of communicating product information. We can negotiate with scientific secretariats to ensure maximum exposure for your congress session, and can develop and implement an interesting and effective scientific program that supports your needs. This includes skillful briefing of faculty to make sure that points of commercial sensitivity are accurately communicated; development of speaker presentations; faculty and delegate logistics; and stage-managing of the symposium itself.

Editorially, we also undertake the development of a range of symposium support items, such as audience-generation materials and abstract books, and can provide a full service on post-meeting publications and reports. We firmly believe that eye-catching design appropriate to the product branding is an essential ingredient in the success of congress support materials.

A meeting organized entirely by a single pharmaceutical company can have many advantages over congresses in terms of flexibility, the choice of venue, direction of the scientific program, and overall control of the event. Facilitate can work with you to develop the scientific program, recruit and brief chairs and speakers, and manage the event from start to finish.

As with all our meetings, our support covers everything from speaker recruitment to delegate logistics. Our delegate management is at the leading edge and we can provide an online registration and information service to local operating companies. We manage all aspects of the meeting, including audiovisual support and stage management.

Patients are an influential group in a number of areas of medicine. They can be invaluable in putting forward the patient's (and carer's) perspective on a condition, and in many countries are influential in driving the choice of therapy.

Facilitate has experience of working with patient advocates across a range of disease areas, and can design a program and meeting to achieve your objectives. We have also produced educational materials for patient advocates to use in talking to patient groups and we are skilled in pitching the information at the right level.

Guidelines are vital for any emerging or under-recognized therapy area, as well as in establishing agreed management strategies in those areas of medicine where treatment is complex. It is not only important to understand the issues, but also to be clear as to the position of a new product within the existing medical management. Facilitate will work with clients and opinion leaders to develop a consensus process that will enhance physician understanding of such therapeutic areas and new therapies.

These range from routine updates for local operating companies to complete internal product launches. At Facilitate we have significant experience of creating memorable internal workshops and launch events.

Appreciation of your commercial objectives, allied with an understanding of the scientific rationale for the product, means that we can contribute to the development of exciting and relevant activities that will challenge the thinking of your local operating company personnel. We can also assist with the development of presentations and the scripting of keynote talks, and are able to rehearse speakers and manage the team-building activities that are an important part of these meetings. Most importantly, our aim is to lessen the burden on you in undertaking the time-consuming organization of these events.

Investigators are becoming increasingly recognized by pharmaceutical companies as offering the first opportunity to "market" a new product to a group of potential product advocates - the clinical investigators. An investigator meeting need not be lavish and expensive, but it should be memorable and well-organized. Facilitate can offer the right balance of cost-effectiveness and imaginative event management.

All of our US meetings - and some in Europe - can be CME accredited through one of our network partners or any organization of your choice. For more information on CME, please see the section on this web site and download our fact sheet.

Our clients tell us that they like the way we:

• Work flexibly with them
• Provide senior/experienced staff
• Offer transparent budgets and reconciliations
• Give practical advice freely