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The Only Event for EACs and
Exhibit Service
Suppliers!
EACA 8th
Annual Conference
July 24 - 26, 2006
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL.
Schedule At A Glance
Mon., July 24
10am –
2pm
REGISTRATION
11am
–12:30pm
Keynote
Presentation
12:30pm –
2:00pm Awards
Luncheon
2:00pm
–3:20pm Super
Session #2 - EAC
- GC Relations
3:30pm –
5:30pm Board
of Directors Meeting
- Members welcome for last half
hour.
Tues., July 25
8:00am –
11:00am REGISTRATION
8:00am –
9:00am EACA
Annual Meeting Breakfast
9:15am –
10:45am Super
Session #3 - Trade Show Labor
11:00am –
1:30pm Ladder/Scaffold/Safety
Program
11:00am –
4:00pm
Showfloor Olympics at EACA
booth # 871
Wed., July 26
11:00am -
4:00pm
Showfloor Olympics at EACA
booth # 871
3:00pm
Showfloor
Olympics Finals EACA booth #
871
Thurs., July
27
Joint Session with TS2
10:45am -
12:00pm Super
session #4 - Service
Surcharges
REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
The EACA
would like to invite its members and all exhibit
service companies to take part in its
8th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.. This
year’s meeting promises to be our best ever
as we add a number of new
sessions to our schedule including:
• A
Keynote presentation delivered by Charles Grey Denney
of Infinity Worldwide Training.
• Our 3rd EACA/TS2 session
titled “Service Surcharges"
• A Safety Training program
for showfloor workers
• An update on our popular
EAC - GC relations session.
In
addition registrants can take part in the following
Special Events:
Special Events
EACA Awards Luncheon
One of
the highlights of our association’s year is the
awarding of our Intrepid and our Hall of Fame induction. Both events celebrate those
that have made great contributions to our
industry and whose presence make
all our jobs possible. In addition, we will be awarding
Five Year Pins to all members who
have achieved that milestone.
EACA Board Meeting
Members
are welcome to attend the last half hour of this
meeting. Come and visit with your Board and find out what new developments are in the
works for our association. Or, simply let them know what they can be doing to create
even more progress for EACs and our
industry.
Showfloor Olympics
The Showfloor Olympics rekindles the kind of fun
that we all knew when we first started in this
industry. Originally organized to
celebrate the contributions of our showfloor workers,
the Showfloor Olympics also now
has an open category for exhibit managers and other
trade show professionals. The
Olympics is a friendly competition for all to test
their skills at booth erection and trade show industry knowledge.
All member companies should be sure to sign up a
team to carry your corporate banner!
SESSION
DESCRIPTIONS
Monday July
24
Room E353C
11:00am–
12:30pm
Keynote Presentation -
sponsored by EliteXPO Cargo Systems Charles Grey Denney, Infinity Worldwide
Training
Fresh from
an appearance on Oprah and the most highly rated
presentation at HCEA, Charles Gary Denney is one of America's most sought after
speakers in the areas of personal safety, conflict resolution and violent situations at
work. Gary's presentation promises to be fun,
entertaining and informative. He's often
called the "fastest talking Southerner you've
ever heard!"
12:30pm –
2:00pm
EACA Awards
Luncheon Room E353C
Take part
in the presentation of the EACA Annual Intrepid
Award, given
to the individual, organization or consortium that has
demonstrated the capacity to go way beyond normal
expectations in delivering world-class customer
service.
As an added bonus, the EACA will be
inducting its third classs to the EACA Hall of Fame.
Be sure to come congratulate
our newest inductees, for their efforts and
accomplishments are certain to
have been largely responsible for making your career
possible.
In
addition, we will be awarding Five Year Pins to all
members who have achieved that
milestone.
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2:00pm–
3:20pm Developing "Best Practices" for EAC - GC
Relations
Moderator: Steve
Schwartz, Washington Convention Center
Panelists:
Scott
Bennett, Nth Degree
Bernie Massett, MC2
Tom Drullnger, George Fern
Chuck Grouzard, GES
EACs and
General service contractors compete for the right to
service our industry’s customers, the exhibitor. This competition not only takes
place city to city and show to show, it is often
filled with many “creative”
tactics – some widely accepted business practices
and some that are viewed as
stretching the bounds of business
ethics.
The
negative side of these competitive practices has left a
bad taste in the mouths of many on both sides.
The EACA
feels its time to do something about these
“contractor wars”. We will initiate
that effort with this session and
look to focus on the positive side of contractors
working in collaboration. Both
EACs and GCs will have the opportunity to help
construct the set of “Best Practices” behaviors they would like to see
observed by their counterparts in the way they
compete for business and service it on
the
showfloor.
3:30pm -
5:30pm EACA Board of
Directors
Meeting
Room E353C
The EACA Board meeting will include
the election of its new Directors and Officers for 2006
- 07. All members are welcome to sit on the
meeting for the last half
hour.
Tuesday,
July 25
Room E353C
8am
–
9:30am
EACA Annual Meeting
Breakfast
The Annual Meeting Breakfast
will be an opportunity for all EACA members to meet
their new Board of Diretors, and
newly elected officers for
2006-07.
Come help us thank outgoing
President, Dave Mihalik for his year of service as
President, and take part in the
discussion by which we will set our agenda for the next
year.
9:15am– 10:45am
New Developments in Trade Show
Labor
Moderator: Jim Wurm ,
EACA
Co-presenters: Ken Viscovich,, UBC
Bob Lessin, IUPAT
Bill Gearns, IATSE
John Perry, Teamsters
Cecil Wynn, IBEW
Dave Causton,
MPEA
Trade show labor continues to be a subject of
vital interest to EACA members. This session
will provide an update on
new labor agreements across the nation, as well as
frank discussion on
how facilities can and will play a role in
labor’s future. Recent events like the new
Rigger agreement in
Chicago, the Indianapolis CC forming its own labor
pool, and the labor broker in Philadelphia (Elliott Lewis) going
direct to exhibitors are just a few of the developments
that we’ll
review!
12:00pm – 2:30pm
Safety Training Program
Ron Gabbert,
Employco Services – Loss Safety
Program
One of the new programs for
this year’s conference will be a Safety Training
program for all showfloor
supervisors and showfloor workers. Registration fees
for this program will include a
box lunch, a certificate of completion, and an entry
fee to the Showfloor
Olympics.
All members that want to
improve the safety of their showfloor workers, and
potentially reduce their
insurance costs should make sure to register their
people for this
program!
Thursday, July
27
Room E353C
Joint Session With TS2
10:45am -
12:00pm
Service Charges -
Gathering All The Facts
Moderator: Jim Wurm , EACA
Co-presenters: Dave
Mihalik, EliteXPO Cargo Systems
Mark Salesses, AGS
Expo
Mike Davis, CORT Tradeshow
Furnishings
Dave Walens, Brumark
Scott Bennett, Nth
Degree
Michael Seymour, 3D
Exhibits
Contracting with suppliers for your exhibit program
can be a complicated and sometimes a mystifying process. Particularly
vexing is the ability to determine, in advance, all the
costs associated
with the acquisition of a product or a service for your
exhibit. At this panel discussion you will have an opportunity to learn
all the ins and outs of supplier contracting and
what questions you should
ask, and have answered, before contracting with your
supplier.
REGISTER NOW AND
SAVE!!!
Save money by
registering before the June 30
deadline!
Remember all EACA
Conference badges gets you FREE ADMISSION to the TS2
exhibits.
Housing
The Hilton
Chicago (Headquarters Hotel)
720 North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago,
IL 60605
877-865-5320
Group Code: TS2
The Palmer House
Hilton
17 East
Monroe Street
Chicago,
IL 60603
877-865-5321
Group Code: TS2
Hyatt
Regency McCormick Place
2233 S.
Martin Luther King Dr.
Chicago,
IL 60616
800-233-1234
Group Code: TS2
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