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Review All Articles > June 25th 2008 - Vol 11, Issue 26 EACA Showfloor Buzz
Vol. 11, Issue 26, June 25, 2008
EACA NEWS
Make Plans to Attend our 10th Annual Conference!The EACA is hosting its 10th Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA on July 28-29, 2008, in conjunction with TS2. This year’s event will place a special focus on the EACA’s 10th Anniversary. EACA members are invited to come together to celebrate this milestone as we review the accomplishments of the past ten years and begin to chart our course for the next ten.
The EACA 10th Anniversary Conference information contains complete descriptions of all sessions and events. In addition, the EACA Conference Registration form and Sponsor form has complete information for participating in this year’s event. If you have difficulty accessing any of this information please send an email to jimwurm@eaca.com <mailto:jimwurm@eaca.com> .
And, as always, your EACA Conference badge grants you access to the TS2 Exhibits!
Thanks to our Annual Conference Sponsors. The EACA Annual Conference will take place on July 28-29, 2008 at the Pennsylvaniz Convention Center in Philadekphia, PA. Conference materials have recently been circulated to EACA members, and are also available on the EACA web site. Please be sure to make your plans to attend!
The EACA would like to thank and recognize our Annual Conference Sponsors to date:
Presenting Sponsor
UBC Metropolitan Regional Council
Platinum Sponsor
Freeman
Gold Sponsor
ExpoServices USA
Silver Sponsors
CORT Tradeshow Furnishings
MC2
On Location
Renaissance Management
The TERM Group
Last Chance to Vote for the 2008 Intrepid. The EACA would like to remind all its members to cast their votes for the 2008 Intrepid. If you would like to cast your vote and need the 2008 Intrepid Ballot, you can either grab it here or at the EACA web site. All votes must be received by June 30, 2008.
This year’s nominees are:
David Causton, MPEA
Joe Mondelli, EACA Chicago
Bob Lessin, IUPAT
Mia Rampersad, IHA
Anah Corley, Stetson Convention Services
Also Last Chance to Cast your Vote for the EACA Hall of Fame. The EACA would also like to remind all its members to cast their votes for the EACA Hall of Fame. If you would like to cast your vote and need the 2008 Hall of Fame Ballot, you can either grab it here or at the EACA web site. All votes must be received by June 30, 2008.
This year’s nominees are:
Steve Barry Jr, TWI
Dick Gorbett, Global & Atlas Van Lines
Tom Mobley, Global Spectrum
Art Ursin, Poirot
CHAPTER NEWS
Chicago Chapter News
6th Annual Golf Outing to Benefit RSMGC
The Chicago Chapters of the EACA and EDPA announced the dates for their 6th Annual Golf Outing to benefit the RSMGC.
This scramble golf event will take place at Maple Meadows Golf Club in Wood Dale, IL on Monday, August 4, 2008 with a 1pm shotgun start. Golf will be followed by a dinner reception with raffle prizes.
For additional information on the 2008 EACA/EDPA Chicago golf outing contact Nancy Virene at njvirene@thetermgroup.com.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Young Named Head of Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority <Trade Show Executive> The Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority named Ahmeenah Young as the new president and CEO, replacing Al Mezzaroba, who will stay with the authority until August to aid in the transition. Young will head up the authority as the Philadelphia Convention Center convention center undergoes a $700 million expansion that will double its size to 1,000,000 square feet of exhibit space. Mezzaroba plans to return to private law practice. In a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday, Young said, "We are going to build this expansion. And then we're going to treat customers better than their parents ever treated them."
Top 100 Influential Tradeshow Professionals Includes EACA Notables Causton, Eelman, Mobley, and Pekowski <Tradeshow Week>
David Causton, General Manager, McCormick Place
Causton's almost five years as the top man at one of the country's largest and busiest tradeshow venues has been event-filled, to say the least. There's the gleaming, new $882 million McCormick Place West that had its official opening last August and already has 80-plus shows booked for itself through 2018, two-thirds of them new business or shows that haven't been in Chicago in the past five years. Then there's the new food service deal he signed with a local restaurant consortium that's set to not only be more profitable for the center, but also provide more options to clients (although probably not end the era of the $3 bottle of water). Finally, of course, there's been the ongoing, slowly developing move to declare peace between warring labor unions on one side and exasperated show managers and exhibitors on the other that seems – one new contract with a union local at a time – to be taking place.
Peter Eelman, Vice President, Exhibitions, AMT
Eelman's the rare show manager who began his career as an exhibitor, and then moved further up the food chain. In his current gig as the AMT executive in charge of exhibitions, its biennial Intl. Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago reached the No. 1 ranking on the TSW 200 for the first time in 2000. With a showfloor of more than 1.1 million sq. ft. year in and year out, IMTS is perennially ranked in the top 10. Eelman's been involved in manufacturing exhibitions for more than 20 years, the last 12 with AMT. He's responsible for AMT events all over the world, personally coordinating shows and meetings in China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Europe. He's actively involved in such tradeshow groups as IAEE, CEIR, TSEA and Assn.net. He also is a member of The Chicago Advisory Council and The Chicago Labor-Management Council, groups that have worked to build bridges between management and labor at the city's McCormick Place.
Thomas Mobley Jr., Senior Vice President, Global Spectrum
Mobley, a venue management veteran, is responsible for the 20-plus convention centers Global Spectrum runs, everything from the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati to the Pueblo (Colo.) Convention Center. And, of course, he's looking for more venues to manage. Global Spectrum was in the news most recently when it decided to join with the manager of one of the Miami Beach Convention Center's biggest shows in a proposal to take over management of the center together.
Ray Pekowski, President and CEO, The Expo Group
The Expo Group may not be the biggest service contractor in the business, but the Dallas-based company that Pekowski heads gets plenty of attention.. Its Show Manager of the Year Awards that recognize outstanding tradeshow managers is a highly lauded industry event every year. Pekowski, a 30-year exhibition industry veteran and member of numerous industry associations, created TEG in 1987 with its patented customer service model – what he calls a Single Source Solution for exhibitors and show managers, providing one point of contact for all services required for a show.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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