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News Release from: Pittcon
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 08 April 2008
Pittcon 2008 attracts nearly 20,000
Pittcon reports attendance figures at 19,536 (10,677 non-exhibitor and 8859 exhibitor attendees) for Pittcon 2008, which was held in New Orleans from 1-7 March in New Orleans
The six-day conference and exposition was attended by conferees and exhibitors representing 85 countries The exposition included 1110 exhibitors occupying 2,457 booths (2.4% and 3.4% increase from 2007, respectively) used to showcase their newest instruments, products, and services for laboratories in the analytical, materials characterisation, pharmaceutical, and biomedical fields
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 28 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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First-time exhibitors at Pittcon accounted for 15% of the total.
The comprehensive technical programme featured more than 2200 individual presentations distributed among invited symposia, organised contributed sessions, and poster presentations.
The 2008 technical programme opened with a plenary lecture presented by Leroy Hood to a capacity crowd of over 1000 attendees.
Twelve symposia were dedicated to award ceremonies acknowledging the accomplishments of outstanding scientists.
The American Chemical Society, division of analytical chemistry expanded this year's co-programming to include eight invited symposia, six organised contributed sessions, and one poster session.
This partnership between the Pittsburgh Conference and ACS-DAC will continue for the third year at Pittcon 2009.
The conferee networking sessions, which premiered in 2007, were expanded from eight to 27 sessions this year with many additional topics and were attended by more than 500 participants.
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