The Best Experts — on finances, marketing, staffing and more. You won’t find successful practitioners like these anywhere else.

The Hall of Learning — pioneering concept in conferencing, a LERN original.

Discussion Groups — join with others in the same institutional setting to discuss successes, challenges and opportunities.

Your Professional Network — through formal and informal sessions, dinner and social groups, renew and expand your network of colleagues.

Brochure Exchange — get hundreds of new ideas from the brochures and catalogs you take back home.

Tracks — choose from the many sessions designed for your kind of programming, from contract training for business to community programming.

Energy — the most exciting week of the year for most programmers is also a chance to invigorate your creative energies and get fresh ideas.

Leaders will receive the latest information on financial, policy and planning issues to help make informed policy decisions and plan future directions.

Managers and coordinators will get the most advanced and current tips and techniques on budgeting, programming, management, trends, marketing and brochure design to increase enrollments, boost income and save on costs.

The content is geared to those in a variety of institutional settings conducting educational programs for the community, for business and industry, and seminars for professional development.

Colleges, universities, public schools, recreation departments, vocational-technical schools, hospitals, museums, health care organizations, associations and private providers will be represented at this conference. More than 800
participants will come from throughout North America, Europe and Australia.