Full Schedule for Friday, April 30, 2010

Schedule At-A-Glance

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Contractors and installers featured session: The Seven Steps to Closing a Profitable Sale
Room S320EFG

Architects and designers featured session: “The New Real” — The Future of Design for a Changed Customer
Room S230ABC

9:00–10:00 a.m.

Women in the Stone Business Annual Forum
Room S230D

Going Digital — New Operational Metrics Gained for Natural Stone Business Owners
Room S230EF

1:30–3:00 p.m.

Architects and designers featured session: Color Trends: The Catalysts That Create Change
Room S320EFG

Challenges to Natural Stone Tile Installations!
Room S230ABC

3:15–4:15 p.m.

EDS & MEDS: Challenges and Opportunities for Ceramic Tile
Room S330AB

Mosaic Art As An Architectural Enhancement
Room S330CD

Using Tile in Your Next Green Building Project
Room S230EF

Safety and Profitability: How Safety Can Raise Your Bottom Line
Room S330EF

Providing CEUs to Architects & Interior Designers About Natural Stone
Room S230GH

Digital Templating & Much More
Room S230D

Inventory Management and Pricing Strategies
Room S230ABC

Less Chaos, More Cash — Reducing Confusion and Improving Profits in Your Business
Room S330GH

Full Schedule for Friday, April 30, 2010

April 6, 2010

ARTICLE TOOLS

Reprints

8:30–10:30 a.m.

Installer Workshop and Demonstration
Speaker: Gerald Sloan, National Tile Contractors Association
Room S230ABC

How to Pitch Your Company to a Stranger
Speaker: Betty Sullivan, Architectural Ceramics
Room S330AB

8:30–11:30 a.m.

Stone fabricators featured session
Stone in Green Building: Moving the Stone Industry Toward Sustainability
Speakers: Jack Geibig, Jr., Center for Clean Products at the University of Tennessee; Members of the Natural Stone Industry’s Sustainability Committee
Room S230EF

Your Fabrication Shop — Nuts & Bolts/Fabricators Forum
Speaker: Kevin Padden, AZ School of Rock
(Fabricators Forum will commence at 10:00 AM)
Room S230GH

Marketing in a Recession 101
Speakers: Christine Whittemore, Simple Marketing Now LLC; Paul Friederichsen, Brand Biz; Scott Perron, Big Bob’s Flooring Outlets of America, Inc.
Room S330CD

9:00–10:00 a.m.

Trends in the Use of Tile and Stone in the Landscape: A Showcase of Various Landscape Works Across the Globe That Embrace Culture, Theme and Sustainability
Speaker: Rob Hutcheson, ASLA, EDSA
Room S330EF

10:15–11:15 a.m.

Conveying Design Details Using Sketchup 3-D Rendering
Speakers: Jeffrey Woods and Tanya Woods, XStyles
Room S330EF

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