Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference 2009 Brochure - (Page 5) NKBA Segment Events Each segment event provides 0.2 CEUs Designers Event Distributors Event Gold Sponsor: Code name: Brand Au - A Solid Gold Choice for Designers, Coming K/BIS 2009 Saturday, May 2 • 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Friday, May 1 • 12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Edie Raether, MS, CSP Harry Gianetti UMRP and the Internet: The Challenges Faced by Today’s Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers In a technologically advanced market, consumers have become savvier in product research, knowledge, and purchasing. Manufacturers, distributors, and dealers must work together and adapt new sales methods to accommodate their well-informed clients. The Internet advantage can no longer be ignored. How can a manufacturer protect its brand value? Can a dealer justify the cost of maintaining a showroom? How can a distributor help ensure the dealer sufficient profits to do this? When competing Internet sales require little or no investment, creative solutions are a necessity. Harry Gianetti has served as VP of Sales for Thermador, VP of Sales and Marketing for BSH Home Appliances, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for Mills Pride, and VP of North American Sales for Elica. Through his range of experience, Gianetti provides an interesting perspective on both the problems and the solutions to current marketing conflicts. Creating Your Blueprint for Success! Become unstoppable! Allow your dreams to be greater than your fears. Thrive in tough times by turning obstacles into opportunities and adversity into a competitive advantage. Design the circuitry of your business for success! Edie Raether, MS, CSP, is a change strategist who will challenge the way you think and change the way you do business to thrive even in the toughest economy. For 38 years, Edie’s keynotes have empowered over 3,500 associations and Fortune 500 companies on five continents. The author of inspirational and business books published in over a dozen countries, Edie has been asked to present for the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. “SHARK!” Manufacturers & Manufacturers’ Reps Event Builders/Remodelers Event Platinum Sponsors: 20-20 Technologies, Inc. and Westye Group SE; Silver Sponsors: MultiStone USA, Moda Floors & Interiors, and Cucine Lube of Atlanta Saturday, May 2 • 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Saturday, May 2 • 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Cast a wider net! Attend the NKBA’s 7th annual “SHARK!” Breakfast. Join the feeding frenzy – literally and figuratively! The event brings together manufacturers needing reps and hungry reps looking for manufacturers. Be prepared, when they’re all in the same room together, the action can be ferocious! If you want to hunt or be hunted, bring your enthusiasm, a well-crafted resume, and a stack of business cards. No guppies allowed! Please note: The $45 member and $70 non-member registration fees apply only to event attendance and do not include a tabletop display. If you are a manufacturer wishing to purchase a tabletop, please contact the NKBA at 800-THE-NKBA (843-6522). Steve Ford Write the Vision Script for Your Life with Character Steve Ford, actor and son of former President Gerald R. Ford, entertains and educates. He will discuss survival during tough economic conditions while maintaining character and ethics in business. Ford has negotiated a bumpy road from the White House to a successful 20-year career as an actor in Hollywood. His roles span more than 30 major motion pictures, host of the NBC TV series “Secret Service,” and six years on the Emmy Award-winning daytime soap-opera, “The Young and the Restless.” Steve conveys personal experiences ranging from his mother’s alcoholism and breast cancer to his own successful battle over alcoholism. The Nixon Pardon, stories of his ten Secret Service agents, and life on the set of Hollywood movies are the backdrop to his message where the focus remains clear: character, integrity, and the strong family bond that lead to the Ford family’s success. Dealers Event Silver Sponsor: Wood Mode Sunday, May 3 • 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Mick De Guilio Driven by Design Is it possible for a business to be driven by design and still have a strong bottom line? Mick De Giulio examines the vital role a design-driven culture can have in managing a successful kitchen and bath dealership. De Giulio has been creating extraordinary kitchens for over 30 years. He has been asked to design, test, and demonstrate kitchens for the Chicago Tribune, Sub-Zero/Wolf, and Meredith Corporation, publisher of Better Homes & Gardens. In 2005, Kitchen and Bath Business honored him as one of the 50 most influential people in the kitchen and bath industry. In 2003, he was voted a Kitchen and Bath Design Leader by Interior Design magazine, and in 2004, was inducted into the University of Illinois - Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. AT L A N TA NOTE: Digital CEU Forms at K/BIS – In an effort to pursue sustainable practices, while also saving time and reducing costs, the NKBA will no longer use paper CEU or survey forms at any K/BIS events. Instead, the NKBA will scan your K/BIS badge to record your attendance at the event and then e-mail you a link to the online version of the form approximately three days after K/BIS ends. You must click the link in each e-mail message and complete the online CEU/survey form for each event in order to earn CEUs. If you do not complete this online form for any event you attended, you will not receive CEU credit for that event.
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