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from the show director

planning ahead

As you are making your plans to attend HD Expo in a few months, I wanted to take this opportunity to preview some of the wonderful sustainability-focused conference sessions we will be hosting during the show this year. Please check out the entire conference schedule on our website, hdexpo.com. Our *NEW* Green Conversations will take place on the show ﬂoor during show hours. • David Mahood, principal of Olive Hospitality Consulting, will be discussing “Materials Do Matter” with Susan Inglis, founder of From the Mountain and executive director of Sustainable Furnishings Council. • Jillian VanDresser, principal of the

Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) May 15-17, 2012 Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas www.hdexpo.com

HD Boutique Exposition & Conference (HD Boutique) September 11-12, 2012 Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami www.hdboutique.com Contact us: 1145 Sanctuary Parkway, Suite 355 Alpharetta, Georgia 30009 770.291.5400 LIZ SOMMERVILLE Group Show Director 770.291.5456 Elizabeth.Sommerville@nielsen.com JEFF BROWN Sales Manager 770.291.5435 Jeff.Brown@nielsen.com CECE LOFT Account Executive, East Coast 770.291.5433 Cece.Loft@nielsen.com BRENT PAYNE Account Executive, West Coast 770.291.5604 Brent.Payne@nielsen.com FRANCES WONG Marketing Manager 770.291.5513 Frances.Wong@nielsen.com KARA KOBRZYCKI Conference Director 770.291.5424 Kara.Kobrzycki@nielsen.com ELIZABETH GRIMSELY Conference Director 301.365.7971 Elizabeth.Grimsley@nielsen.com DERRICK NELLOMS Operations Manager 770.291.5452 Derrick.Nelloms@nielsen.com JOE RANDALL Senior Vice President

VanDresser Company, will be discussing “What Are We Teaching our Students and What Can They Teach Us?” with Jeanne Varney, lecturer at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. • Kathryn Fernholz, executive director of Dovetail Partners, Inc, will converse with Cliff Tuttle, senior vice president of ForrestPerkins, on “Where Does Your Wood Come From, and Why it Matters.” • Gary Golla, senior architect with SERA Architects, will talk about how “One Hotel Can Change the World” with industry expert Herve Houdre, regional director of operations and general manager at the InterContinental New York Barclay. You can also join these green experts at the NEWH Student Scholarship Awards Luncheon and Green Panel Discussion. Due to the enormity of our industry, all future growth must be measured by sustainable principles. How do we pursue sustainable principles within this large framework? It is critical that we begin to interlink the many factors affecting hospitality practices. From design to procurement to consumer and owner responsibility, the Green Panel Discussion will distill these diverse inﬂuences on hospitality into an interconnected approach to sustainability. Bringing in experts from the ﬁeld of wood, land management and policy, international trade and product certiﬁcations, hotel management and operations, and education will yield varying perspectives on how sustainable practices are impacting the industry. We all know how important sustainable initiatives are to our industry, so we hope these sessions will offer up new insights on the subject. Until next month.

DAVID LOECHNER President, Nielsen Expositions MICHAEL ALICEA Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Liz Sommerville Group Show Director Elizabeth.Sommerville@nielsen.com

DARRELL DENNY Senior Vice President, Business Development
DENISE BASHEM Vice President, Finance LORI JENKS Vice President, Operations TERESA REILLY Vice President, Digital JOANNE WHEATLEY Vice President, Manufacturing & Marketing Services

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