A Review of 2021: Millbrook Medical Conferences
2021 was another challenging year. As you would expect, our industry has been impacted heavily by the pandemic and our team have been working hard to recover, evolve and thrive over the last 20 months.
Despite the challenges, we had a great year!
Millbrook organised 24 conferences in total. Of those, 16 took place online, five were in-person only, and three were hybrid taking place across Manchester, Nottingham, Surrey, Cardiff and London. We were delighted to be able to hold face-to-face conferences again after a year of online-only events. It was fantastic to be able to catch up with familiar faces and enjoy the interaction and benefits of in-person education once again.
Millbrook’s conferences received a total of 8,695 registrations from across the world in 2021. We reached China, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Germany, Spain, Croatia, Romania, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and many more countries. It makes us very proud to know that we have helped educate thousands of HCPs across the world, allowing them to provide the very best care to their patients. Ultimately, the provision of first-class medical saves lives and we love being a small part in enabling this positive impact on society.
In addition, Millbrook were finalists in the ABPCO Excellence Awards for our work in transforming an annual, multi-track, three-day, face-to-face meeting into a highly successful digital meeting in 12 weeks. You can read more about it here.
We also launched the Millbrook Hub, a single event platform to showcase our virtual events. Allowing registered delegates to use one link only to access all upcoming Millbrook e-conferences. In addition, the Hub contains all the content from past e-conferences and webinars. Currently, the Hub has a library of 19 conferences and over 90 hours of education available to watch on-demand. Read more about the Hub and gain access here.
Finally, our team grew by two, as we welcomed back Tilly Broadbent as conference coordinator, who has worked with us in the past, and we welcomed Chloe Tyler who joins us as administration assistant.
We wanted to share these milestones and statistics with all the people that helped to make this happen. Whether you have been a delegate at one of the conferences we have organised, a member of faculty, a course director, or a sponsor, thank you for supporting us this year.
The last two years have taught us so much, we feel ready for a new challenge in 2022 and we’re going to make this our best year yet.
The Hub is a self-contained platform featuring all of Millbrook Medical Conferences’ live and past e-conference content from the past two years, with more content added every month.
Conferences currently within the Hub include CTO, BISMICS, IVCC, The Advanced Cardiac Imaging Course and B.R.A.I.N. In addition, you will find Abbott, Teleflex and Heartflow webinars, as well as a range of COVID-19 focussed webinars from the last two years.
The Hub can be found by clicking ‘Millbrook Hub’ within the navigation bar on the Millbrook website. You don’t have to have registered for each conference to access the content, as long as you have access to the Hub, you can view all of the on-demand education we have available.
As well as past conferences and webinars, the Hub will also feature live upcoming e-conferences. You will only be able to view live conferences if you are registered for them, but once any of our free courses are available on-demand, everyone can access. Paid for courses will only be available to those that have registered.
Once an e-conference has been broadcast live, it will be available on the Hub to view on-demand within the next few days.
If you have registered for one of our e-conferences in the past, you will automatically have access to the Hub using the same login details. If you haven’t attended an e-conference previously, fill out the form and our team will be in touch to grant you access.
The Hub is a self-contained platform featuring all of Millbrook Medical Conferences’ live and past e-conference content from the past two years, with more content added every month.
Conferences currently within the Hub include CTO, BISMICS, IVCC, The Advanced Cardiac Imaging Course and B.R.A.I.N. In addition, you will find Abbott, Teleflex and Heartflow webinars, as well as a range of COVID-19 focussed webinars from the last two years.
The Hub can be found by clicking ‘Millbrook Hub’ within the navigation bar on the Millbrook website. You don’t have to have registered for each conference to access the content, as long as you have access to the Hub, you can view all of the on-demand education we have available.
As well as past conferences and webinars, the Hub will also feature live upcoming e-conferences. You will only be able to view live conferences if you are registered for them, but once any of our free courses are available on-demand, everyone can access. Paid for courses will only be available to those that have registered.
Once an e-conference has been broadcast live, it will be available on the Hub to view on-demand within the next few days.
If you have registered for one of our e-conferences in the past, you will automatically have access to the Hub using the same login details. If you haven’t attended an e-conference previously, fill out the form and our team will be in touch to grant you access.
On Monday, December 7, the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO) hosted its annual Excellence Awards. The ceremony rewards excellence and professionalism in the world of association events, recognising professional conference organisers and event industry partners for their contributions to the industry. As you may expect, this year was a little different than normal with awards ceremony taking place virtually, allowing the attendees to vote for category winners and view presentations from nominees and winners.
For 2020, an additional award category was added, the Lockdown Hero Award, which recognises the professional conference organisers who have worked against the odds to create events during the COVID era. Millbrook was presented with the special award for its work in facilitating the Imperial College COVID-19 Cardiovascular Conference with two other organisations also recognised as Lockdown Heroes.
The live webinar was Millbrook’s first virtual event, taking place on Thursday, April 2, 2020, with just a 10-day lead time, no budget and the need for a significant global audience. This was important to ensure this vital information on COVID presentation in cardiac patients was shared worldwide to implement change and save lives.
The programme comprised of four highly-engaging sessions featuring 29 talks from 32 members of faculty. Within 10 days, a global audience was generated of over 5,600 participants across all four continents including delegates from Morocco, the USA, India, Norway and Sweden. Post-event, the webinar was made available on-demand and so far has generated a total of 9,300 viewers.
Millbrook managing director Fiona McDonald commented:
“During this extraordinary year, Millbrook, like all professional conference organisers needed to evolve for the COVID era. We have learnt how to use multiple virtual event platforms to become self-taught virtual event specialists in a very short time frame.
“I am so proud of the work our team has undertaken to ensure that medical education can still take place despite being unable to organise traditional face-to-face conferences. It’s been a huge learning curve, but we are extremely proud that Millbrook has facilitated the sharing of important COVID information to physicians worldwide.”
Barbara Calderwood, ABPCO co-chair, added:
“In a remarkable year we expected remarkable entries, and our membership truly delivered.
“ABPCO members demonstrated creativity, flexibility and tenacity as they organised events under very different circumstance compared to anything they have done in the past. Thank you to all our members for submitting their entries and well done to our worthy winners, who were chosen through a mixture of audience voting and judges’ marks.
“Through the addition of the Lockdown Hero awards we were also able to recognise a new breed of member, those who stepped out of their comfort zone and did something different for their clients, peers and audiences.”
ABPCO membership provides reassurance to prospective clients seeking the services of a professional conference organiser that their event is in safe hands. ABPCO members have been verified by both ABPCO and their peers and are recognised for their skills and experience within conference organisation.
Members of the Millbrook Medical Conferences team have been re-acknowledged by ABPCO in 2020 for their services to conference management. Fiona McDonald is recognised as a full ABPCO member honouring her 27 years within the industry during which she has organised hundreds of conferences and events across the UK and overseas. Full membership also recognises Fiona’s position as managing director of Millbrook Medical Conferences.
Lizzie Head, Emma Robinson, Rebecca Hopper and Harriet Sullivan are recognised as associate members of ABPCO. This level requires a minimum of two years’ experience of all services required in the preparation and running of conferences, seminars and/or other meetings. Applications for associate membership must be supported by references from at least two clients or venues. In addition, detailed reviews of the applicant’s last two conferences are submitted before consideration by the ABPCO executive committee before accreditation is approved.
Recognition from ABPCO is testament to the hard work and professionalism shown by the executive conference managers at Millbrook Medical Conferences. If you would like to find out more about our conference services or are looking to obtain a tailored, no obligation quote please contact us through the form on our website here.
If you would like to find out more about ABPCO, click here.
The decision was made collectively by council members of BCIS and announced by Nick Curzen, President of BCIS, during the BCIS AGM (annual general meeting). The BCIS AGM took place at the Advanced Cardiovascular Intervention (ACI) conference.
Millbrook is ambitious in its objectives for the evolution of the society to ensure sustainability and progression for years to come. Over the next six months, Millbrook will address the more immediate priorities.
The first and most important task is to revive the BCIS website to improve its functionality and enhance the user experience for BCIS members.
Secondly, Millbrook will redevelop and align the membership process to aid both financial planning for the society and provide consistency for members.
Finally, changes will be made to ensure an increase in the availability and accessibility of first-class education for BCIS members of all levels.
Five members of the Millbrook team will provide support to BCIS. Fiona McDonald will be the first-line key contact at Millbrook and will oversee and direct all work as general manager. Supporting Fiona and the BCIS Officers will be Dominic Legate (finance), Emily Husak (BCIS website and memberships and subscriptions), Sarah Moore (BCIS website and communications) and Tilly Broadbent (administration).
Millbrook’s executive conference managers will concentrate on the organisation of medical education across the UK.
Both BCIS and Millbrook would like to thank Azeem Ahmad for his sterling work as BCIS administrator for many years and wish him the very best in his future endeavours. Millbrook will continue Azeem’s hard work and will rely on his expertise during the handover period.
The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society will remain a separate entity to Millbrook Medical Conferences. In line with GDPR regulations, BCIS and BCS data will remain secure to BCIS activities and will not be used by Millbrook Medical Conferences for any reason.
There will be a transitional period whilst information and knowledge are shared to Millbrook Medical Conferences.
If you have any queries regarding this transition, or general enquiries for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, please email bcis@millbrookconferences.co.uk or call +44 (0) 1455 552559.
The Hub is a self-contained platform featuring all of Millbrook Medical Conferences’ live and past e-conference content from the past two years, with more content added every month.
Conferences currently within the Hub include CTO, BISMICS, IVCC, The Advanced Cardiac Imaging Course and B.R.A.I.N. In addition, you will find Abbott, Teleflex and Heartflow webinars, as well as a range of COVID-19 focussed webinars from the last two years.
The Hub can be found by clicking ‘Millbrook Hub’ within the navigation bar on the Millbrook website. You don’t have to have registered for each conference to access the content, as long as you have access to the Hub, you can view all of the on-demand education we have available.
As well as past conferences and webinars, the Hub will also feature live upcoming e-conferences. You will only be able to view live conferences if you are registered for them, but once any of our free courses are available on-demand, everyone can access. Paid for courses will only be available to those that have registered.
Once an e-conference has been broadcast live, it will be available on the Hub to view on-demand within the next few days.
If you have registered for one of our e-conferences in the past, you will automatically have access to the Hub using the same login details. If you haven’t attended an e-conference previously, fill out the form and our team will be in touch to grant you access.
The Hub is a self-contained platform featuring all of Millbrook Medical Conferences’ live and past e-conference content from the past two years, with more content added every month.
Conferences currently within the Hub include CTO, BISMICS, IVCC, The Advanced Cardiac Imaging Course and B.R.A.I.N. In addition, you will find Abbott, Teleflex and Heartflow webinars, as well as a range of COVID-19 focussed webinars from the last two years.
The Hub can be found by clicking ‘Millbrook Hub’ within the navigation bar on the Millbrook website. You don’t have to have registered for each conference to access the content, as long as you have access to the Hub, you can view all of the on-demand education we have available.
As well as past conferences and webinars, the Hub will also feature live upcoming e-conferences. You will only be able to view live conferences if you are registered for them, but once any of our free courses are available on-demand, everyone can access. Paid for courses will only be available to those that have registered.
Once an e-conference has been broadcast live, it will be available on the Hub to view on-demand within the next few days.
If you have registered for one of our e-conferences in the past, you will automatically have access to the Hub using the same login details. If you haven’t attended an e-conference previously, fill out the form and our team will be in touch to grant you access.
The Hub is a self-contained platform featuring all of Millbrook Medical Conferences’ live and past e-conference content from the past two years, with more content added every month.
Conferences currently within the Hub include CTO, BISMICS, IVCC, The Advanced Cardiac Imaging Course and B.R.A.I.N. In addition, you will find Abbott, Teleflex and Heartflow webinars, as well as a range of COVID-19 focussed webinars from the last two years.
The Hub can be found by clicking ‘Millbrook Hub’ within the navigation bar on the Millbrook website. You don’t have to have registered for each conference to access the content, as long as you have access to the Hub, you can view all of the on-demand education we have available.
As well as past conferences and webinars, the Hub will also feature live upcoming e-conferences. You will only be able to view live conferences if you are registered for them, but once any of our free courses are available on-demand, everyone can access. Paid for courses will only be available to those that have registered.
Once an e-conference has been broadcast live, it will be available on the Hub to view on-demand within the next few days.
If you have registered for one of our e-conferences in the past, you will automatically have access to the Hub using the same login details. If you haven’t attended an e-conference previously, fill out the form and our team will be in touch to grant you access.
Our team, with over 25 years’ experience working in the medical sector, offers an effective solution to the preparation of educational grants, booking compliant travel, hotel accommodation and processing conference registrations.
Established in response to the revised Ethical MedTech Code of Business Practice, Millbrook Medical Logistics provides a one-stop solution in assisting healthcare professionals to attend third party organised events.
Having already supported healthcare professionals attending TCT, EuroPCR, Optimal CTO and EACTS through company provided educational grants, Millbrook Medical Logistics benefits from the wealth of experience gleaned from the organisational skills of its sister company and the good working relationship it shares with industry.
If you are a healthcare professional wishing to obtain a grant to attend a conference, or a company wishing to provide an educational grant to support healthcare professionals, please contact us for more information.