Thursday, October 26

12:15 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Registration, Networking with Exhibitors

Thursday Tracks:

Track 1: Choice of Helping Hands

1:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Helping Hands: AENC Association CEOs Edition (Association CEOs or Executive Directors Only, pre-registration required, limited to 20)

1:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Helping Hands: AENC FUEL Young Professionals Edition (Young Professionals Only under the age of 40, pre-registration required, limited to 20)

2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Networking Break with Exhibitors

Track 2: Breakout + General Session 1 (also Virtual Track)

1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. The AI Revolution: Unlocking the Future

2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Networking Break with Exhibitors

2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. General Session 1: Improvising Your Emotional Intelligence: How To Communicate, Validate, and Collaborate To Relate

3:30 P.M. - 4:15 P.M. Networking Break with Exhibitors

4:15 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. General Session 2: 365 Advocacy - Building a Year-Round Strategic Program 

5:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. Networking Social

Friday, October 27

8:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Breakfast with Exhibitors

9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. General Session 3: Conflict Re-Imagined:  Be Your Best Buffalo

10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. Networking Break with Exhibitors

10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. General Session 4: ETHICS: Every Choice Has a Consequence - Why People Stray Off the Straight & Narrow and How to Get Them Back on Track

11:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Networking Break with Exhibitors

12:00 P.M. - 12:15 P.M. AENC President Updates

12:15 P.M. - 1:15 P.M. General Session 5: Pink Goldfish - Amplify Differentiation to Stand Out in The Marketplace

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Thursday, October 26

12:15 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Registration, Networking with Vendors

Track 1: Choice of Helping Hands Workshop:

  1:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Helping Hands Workshop CEOs (open to Association CEOs/Executive Directors only)

  1:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Helping Hands Workshop FUEL Young Professionals (must be under 40)

  2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Networking Break with Vendors

Track 2 (also Virtual Track)

  1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. Breakout: The AI Revolution: Unlocking the Future

  2:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. Networking Break with Vendors

  2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. General Session 1: Advocacy Panel

Tracks 1 & 2

3:30 P.M. - 4:15 P.M. Networking Break with Vendors

4:15 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. General Session 2: Improvising Your Emotional Intelligence: How To Communicate, Validate, and Collaborate To Relate

5:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. Networking Cocktail Reception

Friday, October 27

8:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Breakfast and Networking with Vendors

9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. General Session 3: Conflict Re-Imagined:  Be Your Best Buffalo

10:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. Networking Break with Vendors

10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. General Session 4: Every Choice Has a Consequence: Why People Stray Off the Straight & Narrow and How to Get Them Back on Track 

11:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Networking Break with Vendors

12:00 P.M. - 12:15 P.M. AENC President Updates

12:15 P.M. - 1:15 P.M. General Session 5: Pink Goldfish

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Education

6 CEUs, pending approval.

THURSDAY TRACKS:

Track 1: Choice of Helping Hands

A new session concept aimed at providing a safe space for AENC Members to work together to help solve each other’s “real-time” business-related problems. These sessions will be moderator-led and will follow a protocol to ensure a disciplined and focused approach. All Members participating will hear from colleagues and will benefit from the sharing of collective knowledge and Members will have a chance to gain a deeper connection with fellow AENC Members/Colleagues. Click here for more details (including process and structure of the session).

Helping Hands: AENC CEOs Edition

(Association CEOs and Executive Directors Only, pre-registration required, limited to 20) 

Moderator: Heather Wrenn
CEO, NC Chiropractic Association

Helping Hands: AENC FUEL Young Professionals Edition

(FUEL Young Professionals only under the age of 40, pre-registration required, limited to 20)

Moderator: Meg Palumbo, CAE, Director of Customer Strategy, Novi AMS

Track 2: Breakout + General Session 1 (also Virtual Track)

Breakout: The AI Revolution: Unlocking the Future

Moderator: Chuck Gallagher, Speaker & Author

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of AI for your organization?  Join us to demystify this game-changing technology and explore the possibilities it holds.  Our live demonstrations, including ChatGPT, Veed.io, Quillbot, Soundraw, Synthesia.io, ElevenLabs.io and midjourney, will give you a firsthand look at what's possible.

Don't miss this chance to stay ahead of the curve and gain the knowledge you need to drive innovation and growth in your organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the fundamentals of AI and its potential impact on your business
• Explore real-world applications of AI, including live demonstrations
• Discover how to implement AI in your business to drive innovation and growth
• Identify potential ethical and legal implications of AI and strategies to mitigate risk.

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General Session 1: Improvising Your Emotional Intelligence: How To Communicate, Validate, and Collaborate To Relate

Speaker: Gina Trimarco, Recruiter; Founder, Pivot10Results & Carolina Improv Company; Host & Producer, Women Your Mother Warned You About

Managing up, down and sideways takes work. More importantly, it requires emotional intelligence. While many thought leaders have shed light on the importance of EQ, they often omit the “how-to” part of improving one’s EQ. In this interactive session, speaker, trainer and improv performer Gina Trimarco will share her three-step framework for improving your emotional intelligence so that you can develop and foster productive relationships in business and life.

General Session 2: 365 Advocacy - Building a Year-Round Strategic Program - PANEL

Moderator: Robert Broome, CAE, Director of Advocacy, North Carolina Association of CPAs

Panelists: 
Anne DarConte, CAE, HillStaffer
Kim Crouch, Walk Up Advocacy
Claire McDonough, Quorum

Advocacy is a core association function that requires a proactive, cross-functional, strategic approach throughout the year, not just when the legislature is in session. Our panel of association leaders and advocacy experts will discuss the building blocks of an effective year-round program. From issues management and advocacy communications to grassroots engagement, political fundraising, and working with consultants, they will help you craft a road map that delivers results.

General Session 3 - Conflict Re-Imagined: Be Your Best Buffalo

Speaker: Jerry McCormick, President, Personal Safety at Work

This keynote's research is based on the origins of conflict in communication, the challenges that conflict brings in our everyday lives, and concrete solutions to effectively manage conflict in your professional and personal life.  Over the past 18 months, Jerry has researched back to the year 1481 to understand conflict and built the course to help show leadership in the way we resolve conflict with an interesting twist to his research of violent crimes.  Basically, if you take the time to learn how to properly resolve conflict, you might be able to change potentially harmful situations to more peaceful resolutions simply by taking some proven conflict resolution tips and properly putting them into action.  The key is to take control of the conflict rather than be in the conflict yourself.  Jerry will show you how to "Be Your Best Buffalo".

General Session 4 – ETHICS: Every Choice Has a Consequence - Why People Stray Off the Straight & Narrow and How to Get Them Back on Track 

Speaker: Chuck Gallagher, Speaker & Author

Each choice we make and each step we take provides the foundation for our future. Wherever you are right now — regardless of the circumstance — your choices define who you are and the outcomes you will live. While your employees may be aware of this on some level, do they truly realize the power behind the choices they make on a daily basis? More importantly, what’s the risk to your company if they don’t?

In his unusually authentic style, Chuck reveals the consequences of the unethical decisions he made in his own attempt to build the great American dream for himself and his family. This powerful ethics presentation is filled with unforgettable messages of success and failure, illusions and reality, and choices and consequences.

General Session 5 – Pink Goldfish - Amplify Differentiation to Stand Out in the Marketplace 

Speaker: Stan Phelps, Author and Speaker, stanphelpsspeaks.com

How does your organization stand out in a sea of sameness? This program provides an unconventional eight-part F.L.A.W.S.O.M.E. framework for achieving competitive separation.

Tabletop Exhibits

Exhibitors will receive:

• One tabletop exhibit during the entire conference, recognition on mobile app, on signage and on screen.
• Complimentary registration for one representative to attend the entire conference and $50 for each additional representative.
• Static Ad or Logo on our large registration desk TV Screen.
• Your representative(s) will have exhibitor ribbons on badges provided by AENC.

$375 Members; $475 Non-Members

Click here to reserve your tabletop today (pg.2 of form)!

Email madi@aencnet.org if you have questions.

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