October 26-27, 2006
The Grand Hotel
2100 Baltimore Avenue
Ocean City, Maryland 21842
Phone: 800-447-6779 | 410-289-6191 | Fax: 410-289-7591
Agenda
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October 26-27, 2006
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| "Congratulations MidAtlantic Region on Our 25 Year Anniversary!" | ||
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Wednesday, October 25th | |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Mid-Atlantic Xplor Regional Board of Directors Meeting - [Castaway Room] |
| 7:15pm - 9:15pm | BOD Dinner - [TBD]
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Thursday, October 26th | |
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| 8:00 - 10:00 | Registration - [Grand Terrace] |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Continental breakfast - [Grand Terrace] |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Vendor Setup - [Grand II and III] |
| 8:30 - 8:45 |
Welcoming address, General business, & Meeting logistics - [Grand I]
Diana Hillman, President, MidAtlantic Region Chapter General business, including brief Committee Reports, & Announcements. |
| 8:45 - 9:30 | Keynote Speaker
Ron Stott, Account Executive, Mail+Gard - [Grand I] After The Hurricanes – Print-to-Mail Continuity Lessons Learned Print and mail productions processes remain an often over-look aspect of business continuity and recovery. If print and mail disaster recovery efforts are not planned for or carefully executed, the results can mean no billing, no income... no business. Learn what happened to four companies that were impacted by Hurricane's Katrina and Wilma:
Ron is a member of several local ACP Chapters, Transcontinental Directs Safety and Security Team and Mail+Gard's BCRP Committee. Ron attended Buck's County Community and Spring Garden Colleges for Business and Electrical Engineering. |
| 9:35 - 10:15 | Panel Discussion -- Bob Wert, moderator -- [Grand I]
Ron Stott, Account Executive, Mail+Gard Bill Sanders, NearStar Casey Clarke, National Account Manager, USGPO Barry Lietuvnikas, Senior Systems Analyst, City of Baltimore Disaster Recovery - Document, Print and Mail Solutions There are many aspects to disaster prevention, planning and recovery. And, there is no "cookie cutter" disaster recovery plan that accommodates the needs of every company. This will be an informal panel discussion providing vendor and user perspectives for disaster planning and recovery focusing on document recovery solutions. The purpose is it provide in-sight on key elements for maintaining a well prepared plan. Q&A session follows. MailGard is a leader in print-to-mail recovery services and has grown to meet the needs of many companies and state and federal govt. agencies. Come learn how their new capabilities can help protect your company's revenue stream from unexpected interruptions. NearStar provides leading edge output and document management solutions that deliver improved control, reduced costs, and higher service levels to enterprise print operations. USGPO is leading the government by providing Disaster Recovery for Print services to other agencies. Come learn how to set your mind at ease and protect your agency with the added benefit of such services - enhance your contingency planning. City of Baltimore representative will discuss Disaster Recovery for IT operations . . . how does your plan match up? Come find out what you can learn from others already involved in such processes? |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Morning Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Skip Henk, President & Chief Executive Officer, Xplor International Xplor International Update |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Bill Sanders, President, NearStar Take the risk out of your print - managing data in a secure manner with Disaster Recovery processes NearStar has provided centralized output management software and consulting to many fortune 500 based companies and large government entities, which has helped streamline their printing process as well as provide security and redundancy in the print environment. This session will provide information on customer case studies for "best practices," requests specific to managing data in a secure manner, redundancy in the print shop and a short overview on products used to accomplish this. Bio: Bill Sanders is the co-founder and President of NearStar, Incorporated headquartered in Lewisville, Texas. Bill has been actively involved in the industry for over 30 years. Bill started his career in 1976 working for Xerox Corporation in Northern VA. After spending 11 years as a specialist on Xerox printing systems products in Northern VA and San Francisco Bay Area, Bill accepted a position in El Segundo, CA to work in Engineering on new product development and later moved to Dallas, TX to work as a developer to adapt Xerox products to new emerging markets. After 16 years as a printing systems specialist/engineer within Xerox Corporation, Bill left Xerox to start his own consulting company in 1992. During his career, Bill realized that the major vendors in the printing marketplace were not taking the challenge to be true innovators to address customer specific requirements. As an independent integrator and consultant, Bill began to adapt vendor products to address this market niche. Due to limitations and lack of vision by most vendors, in 1999, Bill Co-Founded NearStar to develop flexible and extensible products to address customer specific requirements using latest technologies. NearStar has been an innovator using latest technologies such as Java, PostScript, PDF, adapting legacy applications to utilize their customers current and future financial investments of equipment, and addressing workflows to optimize the operations of print and mail facilities. |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Robert Moffitt, President, RHM Marketing Group & Sales Management Systems Higher-Payoff Sales & Marketing Approaches This seminar delivers a bird's-eye view of more profitable sales activities: -reduce attrition by up to 50%; get customer revenue at 1/5 cost of new accounts, 6- times faster; double transactions; lead you to more fertile hunting grounds; fine-tune distribution; accelerate your acquisition of superior prospects; manage sales process with simpler tools.
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch: served in [Grand Terrace] |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Vendor Exhibits - [Grand II and III]
[Dessert will be served to attendees in this function area.] |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Paul Hudrick, Business Development Manager, Eastman Kodak Company Leveraging Technology in Today's Communications Paul will speak about the tie-ins between printing and the Internet and how important it is in today's world to leverage all of the communications technologies available to get your messages across. Bio: Working in the Graphic Arts business for over 30 years. Evolved from "hot-metal" journeyman typographer to electronic prepress, digital printing sales, digital imaging marketing/management to full-time consultant for Eastman Kodak Company. I currently work with new adopters of digital printing technologies to assist them with their understanding of the driving forces in graphic arts and help them build a solid and successful business model leveraging these new technologies. |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Ted Matthews, Senior Account Executive, Anchor Software, LLC Great Message. Wonderful Piece. GET IT DELIVERED! This session focuses on the importance of address hygeine and move update processing in any direct marketing/mailing effort. It is geared towards the creative marketing people who designs the mailpiece and message and may not understand that all their time and efforts may go to waste if the piece does not actually reach its intended recipient. Bio: Ted Matthews has spent the past 7 years at Anchor Software as a Senior Account Executive. He has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them with understanding and implementing data quality, document design/printing and mailing solutions to achieve the best possible results for their direct mail campaigns. Mr. Matthews has spoken at several industry conferences including the National Postal Forum, Mailcom, OnDemand and the national Xplor conference. |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Sue Locke, Vice President, Director of Consulting, Coaching Solutions The Four Agreements Based on the book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements embrace commitments to yourself and others as a way of being. Learn how becoming aware of how we relate to each other has a lot to do with how accountable we are to our own excellence. Leave with a powerful tool for eliciting positive, proactive solutions to office problems. Bio: Sue's career has spanned many areas, including accounting, being a controller of a multi-million dollar manufacturing corporation, sales, consulting, speaking and training. Sue is co-owner and vice-president of Coaching Solutions, one of the Northeast's premier consulting firms. She has her masters degree from Emerson Institute, and has been inducted into the acclaimed Academy of Dental Management Consultants. Sue's passion is helping others realize the true potential we each have to offer. |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Presentation - [Grand I]
Casey Clarke and Jerry Sherman Graph-Expo Update |
| 7:00 - 9:00 | 'Getting to know you' dinner
Newcomer? EDP? Vendor? On your own tonight? No matter, don't spend the night in your room alone. Join us at 7 p.m. in the hotel lobby. We'll break into restaurant groups for dinner or eat in the hotel's restaurant. Or you can check out the pool/ocean for a leisurely swim. [Payment by individuals, not Xplor.] |
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[updated: 10/22/2006]
