Haven’t registered yet to join the over 500 worldwide members who will be part of these defining three days of actionable optionality that defines TMA. Well, get on it and so today so you too, can experience the wonderment of the world of TMA.
Starting with the essential and ever-popular TMA Boot Camp, led at this Annual by one of its founders, TMA Immediate Past Chair Matthew English, CTP, and featuring Bankruptcy Judges Mary Jo Heston and Mary Grace Deihl, the real and the relevant will kick off these defining three days.
Our three general sessions will not only embrace realities that are challenging and real but will offer a path forward, arming our professionals with skills, tools, and thought leadership that only TMA visionary programming provides.
The general session Shining the Light on the Nation’s Future: The Rebirth of American Cities, sponsored by STRETTO, will feature professionals who have seen these challenges firsthand, having been in storied municipal turnarounds like Jefferson County, Alabama, and the City of Detroit.
The Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain in the Era of AI and Automation panel will spawn debate and discussion at the onset of the fourth Industrial Revolution in civilization’s history and how we navigate the inevitable under a cloud of fear and uncertainty of what that will mean.
Likewise, the Calamity of Climate Change: A Perfect Storm and its Impact on the Worldwide Economy program will bring together thought leadership from Australia, Europe, and the US in a stimulating and thought-provoking geopolitical discussion about how the push to respond to regulation, political pressure and movement away from fossil fuels may ignite economic stresses we are ill-prepared to embrace.
Complimenting these general sessions will be a discussion on the changing landscape of the wine industry in light of regulation and climate change and looking at what’s working and what’s not in the ever-evolving and always-redefining world of receiverships.
Our DEI Workshop & Reception, sponsored by Barnes & Thornburg, will take you to societal challenges in light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving affirmative action and women’s rights, with pundits from academia, politics, and the legal world leading what will be a frank and honest discussion on what may lie ahead.
WOW! Pause with me and take all of this in. This is a celebration like none other with actionable optionality that starts with provocative programming meant to challenge provincial thought and support opportunities to create solutions to issues of a changing world.
You can learn to Network Like a Pro, celebrate the luminaries who will be honored in our TMA Hall of Fame, and be part of a keynote address by best-selling author Shola Richards, who will speak to workplace civility in a multi-generational time with four generations of professional working together in this once in a lifetime moment.
There will be networking over wine at our sold-out California wine tasting experience and you can immerse in the world of chocolate at the San Fransisco Chocolate Immersion workshop.
The women of NOW will join with IWIRC for an always engaging, connected, and invigorating networking luncheon, and our International members will join with our first-time attendees as they light the way forward with fresh TMA opportunities.
With nearly 60 sponsors, led by elite sponsors Gordon Brothers and Pachulski Stang Ziehl and Jones, the outpouring of support for this defining conference opportunity cannot be underscored and is a testament to the people, power, and leading value of what it means to be a part of TMA.
And to the visionary leaders who brought the vision of the possible to what will be our TMA reality starting on October 3rd, thank you.
For without the selfless dedication of the planning committee who made this defining Annual possible, none of this would be our TMA reality at all.
James Gaynor, Brian Gleason, CTP, Frank Grimaldi, Alan Kadish, Michael Koeppel, Margarita Kucherenko, Jennifer Mercer, Michele Michaelis, Jarrett Osborne-Revis, Kevin Otus, Maria Pombo, Michael Rosow, Eric Sutty, Frank Turner, CTP, Nancy Valentine and Spencer Ware, CTP.
Know these names, and when you see them at Annual, join me in celebrating all they did to create this once-of-a-kind conference experience, showing the very best of what it means to light the way forward through TMA.
As always, thanks for taking the time to listen today. In that one connection that is you, your input is critical, your contributions paramount, and your engagement is the foundation that will create a better TMA for all of our members.
Until next time, I’m Scott Stuart. Be safe, resilient, and TMA Proud and I hope to see you in just a few short weeks at the 35th Anniversary TMA Annual in San Fransisco.