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 2010 Calendar of Events 

January

  • Illinois National Guard Employment and Education Reintegration Fair
    Date: January 23- January 23
    Sponsored by: Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
    City: Bloomington, IL
    Website: http://www.wilsonelser.com/files/repository/IL_careerfair201
    Contact: Mick Mills
    Email: mick.mills@illinois.gov

    About This Event:
    Submit jobs to match employers with soldiers returning to civilian life. Job fair has full military support and 2,000 soldiers are expected to attend.


  • Date: January 26- January 26
    Sponsored by: Stuckey & Company
    Location: online webinar
    Hotel: online webinar
    City: Lake St. Louis, MO
    Website: http://www.stuckey.com
    Contact: Dwight Stuckey
    Email: dwight@stuckey.com
    Phone: 800-828-3452

    About This Event:
    Join Kim Calabrese of Chubb Accident & Health as she discusses the Business Travel Accident program available through Stuckey & Company. This 30-minute session, followed by Q & A, will provide you with valuable coverage details and the ability to have your questions answered directly by the carrier.


  • PIMA 2010 Annual Meeting
    Date: January 28- December 31
    Sponsored by: Professional Insurance Marketing Assn.
    Hotel: Hawks Cay Resort
    City: Duck Key, FL
    Website: http://www.pima-assn.org
    Phone: 817-569-7462

    About This Event:
    The Conference will features experts on business strategy, healthcare reform, and the new marketplace. The opening speaker will be Alan Parisse, named “One of the Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century,” on How Leaders Shape the Future When the Game Changes. The closing keynoter will be James Kane, expert Loyalty Strategist and frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, and FOX Business. Early Bird Registration deadline is December 14, 2009. Attendance is open to prospective members of PIMA


February

  • Capital Event
    Date: February 08- February 09
    Sponsored by: Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York
    Location: Albany
    Hotel: Crowne Plaza Hotel
    City: Albany, NY
    Website: http://www.iiaba.net/NY/06_EventsConferences/NAV_ECEventsRec
    Contact: Monica Rayder
    Email: mrayder@iiabny.org
    Phone: 800-962-7950, ext. 249

    About This Event:
    Participants will choose from two topical workshops to attend. An issues briefing to prepare attendees for "L" Day will follow the workshops. Agents will discuss a number of issues with their legislators, including proposed rules on producer compensation disclosure, availability of homeowners insurance in coastal areas, and workers’ compensation insurance market reforms.


  • AAMGA University East
    Date: February 18- February 20
    Hotel: Marriott Richmond West
    City: Richmond, VA
    Website: http://www.aamga.org/events/626

    About This Event:
    Events to take place over the weekend include: a special keynote presentation; eleven new classes designed specifically for the E&S Industry; two new Sales and Marketing Courses designed to help you attract more business; and advanced panel discussion that will be moderated by experts in their fields who will guide participants through a series of case studies on underwriting dilemmas, complex coverages and unique exposure.


March

  • PIACT's 2010 Annual Convention
    Date: March 01- March 02
    Sponsored by: Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.
    Location: Connecticut
    Hotel: MGM Grand at Foxwoods
    City: Mashantucket, CT
    Website: http://www.pia.org/events/conf/conn/
    Contact: Melissa N. Cibelli or Mary E. Christiano
    Email: publications@pia.org
    Phone: (800) 424-4244

    About This Event:
    The two-day convention will feature education sessions, an expansive trade show, the annual awards luncheon, plentiful networking opportunities and more.


  • AIMS Society Executive Retreat
    Date: March 04- March 06
    Sponsored by: American Insurance and Marketing Society
    City: New Orleans, LA
    Website: www.aimssociety.org
    Contact: Kitty Ambers, CPIA, CIC, CISR, CPIW
    Email: kitty@aimssociety.org
    Phone: 877-674-CPIA

    About This Event:
    The event will offer an opportunity for select insurance agency owners, sales managers, top producers, account executives, and company leaders to discuss, in a relaxed setting, ideas that can build agency revenue and sales success. The event is designed to help agency executives build an organization-wide sales culture, understand how to refine and deploy traditional sales and marketing techniques, and learn ways to successfully implement new marketing and sales tools and techniques. Topics to be addressed at the 2010 event include: Leveraging agency automation to increase sales, Creating an effective niche marketing program, Increasing retention to enhance lifetime client value, and Networking and prospecting techniques—traditional and progressive. In addition, attendees will have an opportunity to tour flood-ravaged communities in and around New Orleans with a senior FEMA representative who will discuss the recent changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This “field trip” is designed to increase agency understanding of the NFIP, as well as sales opportunities and E&O concerns surrounding this undersold coverage.


  • AIMS Society’s 23rd Annual PRO-to-PRO Executive Retreat
    Date: March 04- March 06
    Sponsored by: AIMS Society
    Hotel: The Bourbon Orleans
    City: New Orleans, LA
    Website: http://www.aimssociety.org/protopro.html

    About This Event:
    Ed Connor, FEMA’s acting federal insurance administrator, will kick off with a recap of “what happened” following Hurricane Katrina. Following Connor’s presentation, attendees will take part in a bus tour of the New Orleans area to see mitigation and recovery efforts.


  • 2010 AAMGA Automation & Technology Management Conference
    Date: March 13- March 16
    Hotel: Marriott Orlando World Center Resort
    City: Orlando, FL
    Website: http://www.aamga.org/automation/auto2010

    About This Event:
    The Conference will include a keynote presentation by Dr. James Senn of Georgia State University on the Changing Service-Enabled Landscape – Technology Innovations for the Insurance Industry, co-sponsored by NAPSLO, as well as sessions focused on automation security, social networking exposure and industry payment methods.


  • Dynamics of Personal Insurance
    Date: March 24- March 26
    Sponsored by: The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research
    Hotel: Radnor Hotel
    City: Philadelphia, PA
    Website: http://scic.com/SalesTraining/DynamicsAccountDev/main.htm
    Contact: The National Alliance
    Email: www.TheNationalAlliance.com
    Phone: 800-633-2165

    About This Event:
    The Dynamics of Personal Insurance course explores the sales process with special emphasis on the art of the question and ample time will be allowed for role plays and group discussions. Marketing for success means being aware of total account value and applying advance communications skills to round, upgrade and cross sell accounts.


  • AMS Users Group's 34th Annual National Conference
    Date: March 25- March 28
    Sponsored by: AMS Users Group
    Hotel: Gaylord Opryland Resort
    City: Nashville, TN
    Website: http://www.amsug.org/10NC/10NC_home.html

    About This Event:
    AMSUG’s 200-plus education sessions at the conference include more than 60 new offerings, including: new content for all users of Vertafore’s AMS service systems, including AMS 360, AfW, Sagitta, and BenefitPoint; and more courses designed for small independent insurance agencies.


April

  • The AAIS Main Event
    Date: April 11- April 13
    Sponsored by: AAIS
    Hotel: Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa
    City: Fort Myers, FL
    Website: http://www.aaisonline.com/communications/2010/register.html
    Contact: Joseph Harrington
    Email: joeh@AAISonline.com
    Phone: 800-564-AAIS

    About This Event:
    The theme of the 2010 Main Event is "Harnessing Data for Results," and it focuses on practical considerations companies face when implementing sophisticated data-based decision making. The program will be a presentation by AAIS staff members on AAIS's initiative to develop by-peril rating plans. The conference also includes a special inland marine track where Ron Thornton, president of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association, will moderate a series of presentations by inland marine experts.


  • TMPAA Mid Year Meeting
    Date: April 12- April 14
    Sponsored by: Target Markets Program Administrators Association
    Hotel: Renaissance Harborplace
    City: Baltimore, MD
    Website: http://www.targetmkts.com/index.cfm?page=_meeting

    About This Event:
    Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.) to provide Keynote at TMPAA Mid Year Meeting


  • Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar
    Date: April 13- April 13
    Sponsored by: The National Underwriter Company and Hales & Company
    Hotel: Westin NY Times Square
    City: New York City, NY
    Website: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Email: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Phone: 800.831.8333

    About This Event:
    The information-intensive full day seminars are geared toward agency owners and executives, bank-owned insurance agency executives, private equity professionals, industry professionals in charge of membership training and education, and other insurance industry professionals who have a need for detailed information related to creating and enhancing shareholder value.


  • 26th annual Long Island Regional Awareness Program
    Date: April 15- April 15
    Sponsored by: The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc.
    Hotel: Leonard’s of Great Neck
    City: Great Neck, NY
    Website: www.pia.org/NY
    Contact: Melissa N. Cibelli or Mary E. Christiano
    Email: publications@pia.org
    Phone: (800) 424-4244

    About This Event:
    Long Island RAP promises high-caliber continuing education, including Generational gaps: Are they working for or against your agency? presented by Donna Chiapperino in the morning, and Current economic trends and their effect on the insurance industry, instructed by Sheldon Hansen, CIC, CRM, in the afternoon. Both courses have been approved for New York CE credits. Participants also will have access to an expansive trade show and networking opportunities throughout the day.


  • Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar
    Date: April 22- April 22
    Sponsored by: The National Underwriter Company and Hales & Company
    Hotel: Chicago Hyatt Regency
    City: Chicago, IL
    Website: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Email: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx

    About This Event:
    The information-intensive full day seminars are geared toward agency owners and executives, bank-owned insurance agency executives, private equity professionals, industry professionals in charge of membership training and education, and other insurance industry professionals who have a need for detailed information related to creating and enhancing shareholder value.


  • CPCU Society annual Leadership Summit
    Date: April 29- May 01
    Hotel: Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
    City: Phoenix, AZ
    Website: http://www.cpcusociety.org/page/151807/

    About This Event:
    The Leadership Summit is the largest annual gathering of Society volunteers focusing on strategic issues affecting the Society and its chapters and interest groups. Hundreds of leaders and volunteers are expected to attend, including officers, directors, chapter governors, task force and committee members, and chapter and interest group leaders.


May

  • Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar
    Date: May 12- May 12
    Hotel: Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria
    City: Dallas, TX
    Website: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Email: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Phone: 800.831.8333

    About This Event:
    The information-intensive full day seminars are geared toward agency owners and executives, bank-owned insurance agency executives, private equity professionals, industry professionals in charge of membership training and education, and other insurance industry professionals who have a need for detailed information related to creating and enhancing shareholder value.


  • Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar
    Date: May 19- May 19
    Sponsored by: The National Underwriter Company and Hales & Company
    Hotel: San Francisco Grand Hyatt
    City: San Francisco, CA
    Website: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Email: http://www.summitliveevents.com/sites/MandA/Pages/manda.aspx
    Phone: 800.831.8333

    About This Event:
    The information-intensive full day seminars are geared toward agency owners and executives, bank-owned insurance agency executives, private equity professionals, industry professionals in charge of membership training and education, and other insurance industry professionals who have a need for detailed information related to creating and enhancing shareholder value.


September

  • Date: September 14- September 15
    Sponsored by: MarketScout
    Location: Cityplace Conference Center 2711 N. Haskell Avenue Dallas, TX 75204
    City: Dallas, , TX
    Website: http://www.einsurancesymposium.com/eis10
    Contact: Vilma Scott
    Email: vscott@marketscout.com
    Phone: 972-934-4224

    About This Event:
    The 2010 Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium will feature new keynote presentations from leaders of the most innovative companies in the insurance industry. Investors from the top venture capital, industry and banking firms will attend in search of the next great company in which they can invest. Entrepreneurs and innovators will have ample opportunity to meet with potential investment partners.


  • Date: September 14- September 15
    Sponsored by: MarketScout
    Location: Cityplace Conference Center
    City: Dallas, TX
    Website: http://www.einsurancesymposium.com/eis10
    Contact: Vilma Scott
    Email: vscott@marketscout.com
    Phone: 972-934-4224

    About This Event:
    The 2010 Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium will feature new keynote presentations from leaders of the most innovative companies in the insurance industry. Investors from the top venture capital, industry and banking firms will attend in search of the next great company in which they can invest. Entrepreneurs and innovators will have ample opportunity to meet with potential investment partners.


October

  • TMPAA Summit
    Date: October 18- October 20
    Sponsored by: Target Markets Program Administrators Association
    Hotel: Westin Kierland
    City: Scottsdale, AZ


  • Aartrijk Brand Camp 2010
    Date: October 25- October 27
    Sponsored by: Aartrijk
    Hotel: The Driskill Hotel
    City: Austin, TX

    About This Event:
    A hands-on conference for brand decision-makers focuses exclusively on branding for insurance agents, brokers, carriers and trade associations.


November

  • 30th IRMI Construction Risk Conference
    Date: November 07- November 11
    Sponsored by: IRMI
    Hotel: TBA
    City: Nashville, TN
    Website: www.IRMI.com/Conferences/Crc
    Contact: Liah Wiedenfeld
    Phone: 800-827-4242

    About This Event:
    Mark your calendar for November 7-11, 2010, in Nashville, and experience first-hand the exceptional educational value and unparalleled networking opportunities the IRMI Construction Risk Conference offers! This is the premier forum for sharing ideas and techniques for improving the ways we manage and insure construction risks.



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