Philly Here WE Come!!

How exciting for the Las Vegas Chapter as we head to Philadelphia on August 1st. Currently we wil be 19 members strong in attendance for our National Conference, "Experience 2008". We will participate in three days of educational sessions and evenings of social networking with our peers from around the country. Our learnings will be cutting edge in training that is sales driven, technology enhancing, and trend setting in food, beverage, event production, weddings and green sustainable events.

Seven of us will be responsible as delegates to vote for our new National officers on the newly re-formatted Board of Directors. All but one race has two candidates. We have already participated on a "meet- the- candidates" webinar and will have additional communications prior to the "Experience".

On our final night, we will be attending the most exciting part of the "Experience", which is the awards ceremony. Las Vegas has submitted for four chapter awards. These are: 

* Community Service of the Year Award
* Fundraiser of the Year Award
* Chapter Program of the Year Award
*Chapter of the Year

It took your board of directors many hours over several days to write each award nomination and submit it in a very structured format. We hope to bring home an award or two to make all the members very proud to be part of this award winning, famous and active chapter!

Known to date, we have four members who have submitted personal industry awards highlighting outstanding events they have managed last year.

We are also proud to have nominated Cheryl Sgovio for "Caterer of the Year" and Desiree LeDesma as "Event Professional of the Year".

Additionally, we have one or possibly two members who will be taking their CPCE ( Certified Professional Catering Executive) exam in Philadelphia. This year the CPCE exam has been completely updated and will make its debut at the "Experience 2008".

Finally, it has been my pleasure to serve as your president for the past two years. Thank you for participating and making this chapter the BEST in the Country!!!