This year’s IASA show was a huge success. Not only was the show filled with pertinent information and excellent keynote speakers, but our own products gained a lot of attention as well.
Things kicked off Monday morning at breakfast with entertainment provided by the Nashville High School Marching Band. VP of Chapters, Chuck Gunkle, sang along when the players kicked in to God Bless America. Former Vice President Al Gore speak about the floods and droughts ravaging the country, and the possibility of readjusting Social Security Actuarial Tables. Mr. Gore also covered the cost of higher education, suggesting that higher taxes could help fix many of the problems in that institution.
On Day 2, we attended the powerful motivational talk given by Afterburner Inc., a group of fighter pilots that discuss the importance of maintaining focus at all costs. It was a busy day for us because of the number of questions people had about our 48 hour standard production time, and our ability to print on the spine of the Annual Statement. Finally, we were able to give an iPad 2 away to Brett Brad, from AXIS U.S. Insurance Company.
One of our biggest takeaways was that the National IASA team is working very hard to help all of the local IASA Chapters succeed. Some of the ways they are doing this is by committing to handling all of the local chapter show and meeting registrations, collection of dues for shows and meetings, and providing the chapters with the “Meeting in a box” that contains all of the badges, lanyards and misc. items for their meetings and shows. There is a large group of volunteers that make the local and national chapters a success. They are a mixture that consists of people from the insurance industry and vendors like me who support the industry.
It was a great event this year with a number of new contacts made and information learned. Next year’s conference is at the San Diego Convention Center on June 3-6, and you can bet we will be there.
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