The 2016 Knowledge Sharing Summit & Marketplace - Nashville is just around the corner!Spring is almost here and I can hardly contain my excitement as our inaugural Summit is just weeks away!
Next month over 300 attendees, including hundreds of innkeepers, Allied Partner exhibitors and sponsors, presenters, board members, volunteers and staff will converge on Nashville for three amazing days of knowledge sharing from experts in our industry both long-standing experts and new faces bring fresh and innovative ideas to help YOU our innkeepers and future innkeepers!
Education:
Your heads will be brimming with new ideas after three jam packed days with 50 educational sessions involving 82 presenters (no that’s not a typo). The Knowledge Sharing Summit line up is intentional and by design, which is why 50 percent of our presenters are innkeeping colleagues. They will be sharing their experience and insights along with the other industry experts. Our headliners are a dynamic group of leaders and experts that have significant impact on what innkeepers need to be focused on. Check out our headliners here.
Networking:
We have exceeded our initial attendance estimate with over 300 innkeeping professionals representing 140 inns plus 50 exhibits and have successfully negotiated more meeting rooms and sleeping rooms to make just about everything fit under one roof. What a great challenge to have for our inaugural Summit!
We have a terrific Meet and Greet Reception on Monday night that features a super fun icebreaker. Attendees will take a stab at writing funny lyrics about their life in innkeeping; all songs will be performed toward the end of the evening. After the reception buses will shuttle us all to the heart of downtown Nashville for food, fun and frolic!
The Think Tank will offer you the chance to share in problem busting or brainstorming with innkeepers that have similar interests in an intimate setting. We will wrap up the Summit Wednesday evening by celebrating Nashville Nights an evening to thank YOU with music and dancing.
Check out the schedule on line.
Shopping:
Fifty exhibits are bringing products and services to The Marketplace that covers every conceivable item innkeeper’s need. Bring your wish list and bring your checkbook to take advantage of the deals and specials our Allied Partners will have exclusively for you. The financial support from our Allied Partners and sponsors is critical to producing Summit, so please thank them and shop at The Marketplace
From the desk of
Michele McVay
Managing Director