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| Category | Cost |
| AMC Institute Member | $149 |
| AMC Institute Partner | $249 |
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HOUSING
For your convenience, AMC Institute has secured a room block for attendees at the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Downtown Union Station.
Room Rates: $159 (not inclusive of taxes and fees*).
This rate and block will be available until Monday, August 18, 2025.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, September 17
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
Reception sponsored by IHG & Crowne Plaza |
Thursday, September 18
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Event |
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8:00 am - 9:00 am |
Networking Breakfast & Hotel Tours |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Navigating the Journey of Scope Creep in AMCs |
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10:00 am - 10:45 am
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Concurrent Session: Budget Blueprint: Strategies for Success Facilitator: Julie Nemmer, Association Management Center Panelists: TBD Session Summary: Discuss how to successfully create a budget and navigate the presentation of that budget (and the included fee from your AMC) to your client’s leadership. Learn how the client fees feed into the overall AMC’s budget and other considerations as it relates to the AMCs budget. |
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | Concurrent Session: Event Scenarios to Strategies: Maximizing Association Management Event Success with AI Facilitator: Rich Vallaster, PersonifySession Summary: This hands-on lab is designed for AMC professionals looking to boost event success using AI. Rather than focusing on AI theory or generic tools, the session dives into practical, real-world applications. Attendees will explore low-cost or free AI tools that enhance event planning, data analysis, marketing, and more. Through interactive exercises using sample data and scenarios, participants will gain actionable skills to improve efficiency and outcomes with minimal investment. |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Stretch Break |
| 11:00 am -12:00 pm |
Option 1: AI-Enabled Adversaries: How Threat Actors Are (Mis)using AI
Option 2: How do you eat an AI elephant?
Facilitator: Victor Wieczorek, GuidePoint SecurityPanelists: TBDSession Summary: Option 1: An orientation on how adversaries are misusing AI technologies to advance their cyber-attacks with a focus on social engineering, voice cloning, and deepfake technologies. Goals are education, awareness, and the session ends showing how one can create a voice clone of themselves in under 20 min and less than $20.Option 2: A primer to help organizations get started with AI adoption in a secure but practical way—sharing details on how AI saved over 500+ hours of time for one person. What would you do with almost an entire extra quarter’s worth of time? |
| 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 pm | Concurrent Session: Ready, Set, Connect!Facilitator: Karyn Nishimura Sneath, Synergos Panelists: TBD Session Summary: Some people enter a room for networking and jump in, eager to meet dozens of new friends and colleagues. Others walk in gingerly, hoping they don't look as awkward as they feel. Others hate networking events and activities so much, they don't even come in the door. Be prepared to ease into this session with a little bit of information and and then move to create a lot of connections through structured (and NOT embarrassing) activities. We will not hold hands, nor sing songs. We will not trust fall into the arms of strangers. We WILL move, interact, and prepare for a conference full of new colleagues. |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Concurrent Session: Tips & Strategies for Managing Multiple Clients Facilitator: Robert Riggs/ Patrick McGovern, Synergos Panelists: TBD |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Closing Session: Leading the Leaders: The Mindset Shift to Become an Executive DirectorFacilitator: Linda Caradine-Poinsett, AMC Panelists: TBD Session Summary: Learn what it takes to make the leap from manager or director to Executive Director. This session helps mid-level professionals understand the strategic, emotional, and cultural mindset needed to lead associations at the executive level. |
AMCI Regional Meeting Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for making the AMCI Regional Meeting and Reception possible.
CAE Credits
AMCI is a CAE Approved Provider. AMCI's Regional Event programming meets the requirements for fulfilling the professional development requirements to earn or maintain the Certified Association Executive credential. As a CAE Approved Provider, educational program related to the CAE exam content outline, this program may be applied for 3.5 credits toward your CAE application or renewal professional development requirements. For more information about the CAE credential or Approved Provider program, please visit www.asaecenter.org/cae.
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