March 5^th, 2020 was a significant day for Aria Marketing, our fellow PR practitioners, and the Healthcare industry in general. This was the day that the HIMSS annual conference was canceled for the first time in the show’s 58-year history, ushering in a dramatic change in the trade show landscape as, one by one, all the conferences we had attended for years were canceled, postponed, or rescheduled as virtual events due to COVID-19.

While we were unable to join last week’s HITMC chat on virtual events, we were so interested in the topic that we were inspired to sit down with our client, Elizabeth Glaser, AVP of Strategic Marketing at 2bPrecise, a precision medicine software company, to discuss what it takes to run a successful virtual event in the healthcare IT world.

Read on for insights about how she develops webinars for 2bPrecise and attracts attendees, and what she thinks the future of events will look like in a post-COVID world.