Meetings Introduction

Meetings from small gatherings to large annual meetings are managed by the AMS. You can establish the meeting as a definition based on time and scope. The meeting definition may span a year and contain multiple seminars and workshops, quarterly Board of Director’s meetings and committee meetings, or even span multiple years as a container for your recorded webinars. The definition may also span only a few days for your annual meeting, yet be filled with hundreds of events, banquets, socials, tours and workshops. The AMS has the flexibility to adapt to time and scope variables, the power to manage complex meetings and the economy to do it all with the same tools.

The meeting is the starting point in the AMS; it is the parent of all the events that take place within the meeting. For example, a multi-day conference is set up as a meeting, and each included session, panel, meal, reception, tour, and other components are set up as events under that meeting. The meeting is the parent, and each event that is part of that meeting is set up to be a child of that parent in the AMS.

A Meeting is also the parent for a series of related or connected events that take place over time, such as a group of training classes, board meetings or a set of related workshops. Instead of setting up each class as a separate meeting, you to create the meeting as a parent, and each event in the series as a related child.