{"id":11458,"date":"2016-08-18T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2016-08-18T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:38:07","slug":"fall-conference-hotel-cutoff-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=11458","title":{"rendered":"Fall Conference Hotel Cutoff Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"h1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 2016 NAMA Fall Conference will be here before you know it! The hotel cutoff date is tomorrow, August 19! Please\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starwoodmeeting.com\/events\/start.action?id=1511195832&amp;key=2F73F6EC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>reserve your room at the Sheraton<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0as soon as possible. Room rates will go up after Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the fantastic keynote speakers NAMA has lined up for you in the land of sweet tea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nama.org\/Media\/Default\/2016%20Fall%20Conference\/GerryObrien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\" \/><u><strong>Gerry O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Brion<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\nGerry built his career growing big brands. After earning his MBA at the University of Michigan, Gerry began his marketing career at Procter &amp; Gamble. Next, he managed Coors Light, became VP of Marketing for Quiznos, and then VP of Marketing for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.\u00c2\u00a0His presentations will help you develop an action plan to make your business stronger now and over the long term. \u00c2\u00a0Gerry will have you look at your business with a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nama.org\/Media\/Default\/2016%20Fall%20Conference\/cunean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\" \/><strong><u>Conor Cunneen<\/u>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nConor Cunneen is an acclaimed speaker, educator, author and an award winning humorist who provides powerful and memorable business programs via wit and wisdom to Improve People, Performance and Productivity.\u00c2\u00a0In this powerful business building program, you will learn leadership and marketing lessons from the big guys (and not so big guys) that can be adapted to any organization and budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nama.org\/Media\/Default\/2016%20Fall%20Conference\/Dirk-Benson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" \/><\/strong><strong><u>Dirk Benson<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nDirk Benson is the head of Seeds Product Development, Corn and Sugarcane at Syngenta. Benson\u00c2\u00a0holds BS and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University.\u00c2\u00a0He has had a number of positions\u00c2\u00a0in the seed industry including sales management, international marketing, corn breeder, breeding management and development manager for biotech projects. He started at Syngenta in 1996 as a Project Leader.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nama.org\/NAMA.OrchardWeb\/NamaConferenceRegistration\/RegisterTrendsInAgriculture?conferenceId=92\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Register today<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and join NAMA in Raleigh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 NAMA Fall Conference will be here before you know it! The hotel cutoff date is tomorrow, August 19! Please\u00c2\u00a0reserve your room at the Sheraton\u00c2\u00a0as soon as possible. Room rates will go up after Friday. Check out the fantastic keynote speakers NAMA has lined up for you in the land of sweet tea. Gerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}