FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
02/07/2023
Virtual Conference Preparations Go Into Full Swing
The 2023 “Now What?” HETMA Virtual Conference preparations are in full swing and open for registration, ready to again change the industry come February 22-24, 2023. This year’s focus will be about impacting change. It’s no longer enough to look back at the pandemic, but rather as a vertical we must strategically plan for the future. So now what? What says? What goes? What does it mean to serve our customers?
HETMA theme each of the three days will focus on their various initiatives: HETMA Approved Program, PRISM Scholarship, and Online Community, with sessions that build relationship and educate.
Higher education saw the single largest operational upheaval over the past three years. With campuses doing everything from full campus upgrades to quick fixes, navigating the pandemic response was a challenge. As the vertical emerges from the pandemic, what are we supposed to do now? What is going to stay and what is going to go? How much will the pendulum swing back to “normal?” These are the questions that will get answered.
This year’s conference keynotes include sessions on “Now What for Technology and People”, “Now What for Instructional Design” and “Now What for DEI and Hiring Best Practices.” Break out sessions will focus on the change in control systems, immersive technology, student worker training, work from home, and other pertinent topics. Parallel to the tech manager breakouts include “solutions spotlights” but the industry’s leading manufacturers to navigate the challenges the vertical is currently facing. Just as important to the educational sessions, the HETMA Virtual Conference is known for it’s “collaborative lobby” where members connect with one another during the breaks over morning coffee, afternoon lunch, and evening happy hours.
HETMA members say they were “virtual before it was cool,” because this fifth conference started pre-pandemic as a virtual offering, vowing to give a fully complimentary conference to anyone who works in higher education. HETMA believes that institutional funding should never be an obstacle to gathering with colleagues and improving their craft. The HETMA Virtual Conference won “2020 Best Virtual Event” in the AV Nation Reader’s Choice Awards.
The HETMA Virtual Conference is unlike any other. Instead of putting out a call for presenters, a select board of members gathers to discuss what issues and solutions the organization and higher ed vertical need to know. The board then reaches out to the leading subject matter experts to fill their panels. It is the only “solutions-first” conference.
For more information on the conference and corporate sponsorship opportunities, reach out to the Conference Chair, Troy Powers at: conference@hetma.org.
Register for the conference at: https://events.zoom.us/e/view/0V1-u9F6RheneRb5YT0-zA?id=0V1-u9F6RheneRb5YT0-zA.
Check out the new website at https://www.hetma.org.
HETMA invites all AV professionals to join the online community at https://community.hetma.org.
About HETMA
HETMA is also dedicated to providing educational and networking opportunities to our members so that we can empower and grow our influence as an industry. Our belief is that all resources provided through HETMA should always be FREE to the higher ed community. We are by us and for us.
HETMA is a recognized 501(c)3 advocacy organization focused on the higher education AV industry. The goal of HETMA is to raise awareness of technology issues unique to the higher education community by communicating with manufacturers, vendors, AV industry organizations, and higher education administrators on the needs and challenges that technology managers face. HETMA is also dedicated to providing educational and networking opportunities to our members so that we can empower and grow our influence as an industry through signature programs like our “HETMA Approved” products, manufacturer focus groups, DEI initiatives, and annual conference. Our belief is that all resources provided through HETMA should always be FREE to the higher ed community. We are by the higher ed vertical and for the higher ed vertical. Visit www.hetma.org for more information and member registration.
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