ABAG Conference Services

CONFERENCE SERVICES Conference design, management and production for government agencies
HIGHLIGHTS Produced Hazardous Materials Conference and exposition (HAZMACON) for 15 years, attracting 10,000 attendees annually. HAZMACON was held in the cities of Oakland, Santa Clara, San Jose, Long Beach, and Anaheim. Assisted the National Association of Regional Councils with their annual conference, producing a turnout of 1,000 local elected officials from around the country. Developed the first policy conference on earthquake preparedness, held on the anniversary of the October 1989 quake, drawing over 900 officials from around the world.	Client Services / Experience / Qualifications
	The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Conference Services offers complete conference organizing services to government agencies. We deliver: Complete services from concept to conference Reasonable pricing More than forty years of conference design, management, and production experience *Client Services* ABAG Conference Services provides close consultation for all conference needs: researching the potential audience, assembling mailing lists, marketing, and logistical support. We offer professionally designed conference materials to make your message stand out and computerized registration and receipt-writing on the day of. Special attention is paid to helping ABAG Conference Services users achieve maximum participation. *Experience* Since 1961, ABAG has designed, managed, and produced workshops, seminars, training programs, semi-annual membership meetings, outdoor events, and technical programs that have drawn from 75 to 10,000 participants. Over the years ABAG has put together a well-trained, experienced team to help other governmental agencies meet their conference challenges. Whether there is a year or only a matter of months to put together an event, ABAG Conference Services can deliver. CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF ABAG DESIGNED, MANAGED, AND PRODUCED CONFERENCES
*For more information on the scope of services or costs, please Kathleen Cha at 510/464-7922, or email her at Kathleenc@abag.ca.gov*
*Qualifications* When you contract with ABAG Conference Services, you not only get logistics assistance, you get a team that is experienced with: Developing top-quality programs for half-day to three-day conferences down to the smallest details Selecting and engaging highly visible, well-respected speakers on a wide variety of technical, non-technical, and motivational topics Publishing a call for papers, screening for content, and selecting the best speakers for presentations Compiling proceedings Setting up event topic small exhibits or major trade shows to accompany technical conferences Advertising and gaining media coverage Documenting your event Creating restaurant and entertainment guides for the event area Evaluating conference impact Setting up a network of important contacts Assuring that no detail is left unaddressed
List of Conferences 2004 ABAG PLAN American Law Enforcement Training Workshops, February 23 and 24, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2004-2005 Regional Economic Outlook Conference, January 29, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Earthquake Retrofit Funding for City and County Buildings Workshop, January 20, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2003 California Water Plan Update Workshop, November 17, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland General Assembly Under Construction: Building a New Model of Comprehensive Regional Planning, October 24, San Francisco Embarcadero Hyatt Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, October 21-23, Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland Urban Land Institute -- Smart Growth in the San Francisco Bay Area: Financing and Planning Strategies Workshop, September 26, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Urban Land Institute -- Smart Growth in the San Francisco Bay Area: Effective Local Approaches Community Involvement Techniques Workshop, August 22, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Projections 2003 Smart Growth Forecast Conference, June 18, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland General Assembly: Water and Land Use, April 24, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco 2003-2004 Regional Economic Outlook Conference, January 30, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Storm Water Pollution Prevention Sustainable Strategies Workshop, January 30, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Special Workshop on Census County-to-County Commuter Data and the Transportation Planning Package, January 27, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2002 General Assembly: Exploring Alternative Growth Options, October 17, Oakland Marriott City Center Selling the Government - Seminar focused on the culture of government contracting, October 16, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Finding and Winning Contracts - Seminar covering the solicitation process, marketing of government agencies and E-Commerce government contracting, October 8, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Government Contracts -- Seminar outlining the typical contract requirements and regulations of a government solicitation, September 27, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Government Operations & Dioxins Pollution Prevention in the San Francisco Bay Area, September 18, Oakland City Hall South Bay Regional Public Safety/ABAG PLAN American Law Enforcement Training Workshops, June 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21, throughout the Bay Area Construction Defect Litigation Forum - Removing Barriers to Building More Affordable Housing, May 31, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland General Assembly Challenges of Growth 2002, April 25, Palace Hotel, San Francisco 2002-2003 Short-term Bay Area Regional Economic Outlook Conference, January 29, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland Storm Water Pollution Prevention Solutions Conference, January 10, Elihu Harris State Office Building Oakland 2001 New Challenges for Bay Area Storm Water: TMDLs and Development Standards, March 8, Elihu Harris State Office Building Oakland General Assembly Incentives for Action: Growing within Our Boundaries, April 12, Palace Hotel San Francisco Energy and Public Policy, October 18, Oakland Marriott City Center Projections 2002 - Rethinking the Future, December 13, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland State of the Estuary Conference, October 9, 10 and 11th, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco The Real Dirt on Liquefaction and Earthquakes, February 7, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2001-2002 Short-term Bay Area Regional Economic Outlook Conference, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2000 General Assembly Smart Growth: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality Issues, April 27th and 28th, Oakland Marriott City Center General Assembly Gene Age: Bay Area Biotech Boom, October 5th and 6th, San Francisco Fairmont Hotel Regional Airport System Plan Update, June 3, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 2000-2001 Bay Area Short-Term Regional Economic Outlook Conference, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland 1999 Power Matters '99 - conference on electric and gas utility deregulation, October 28, Oakland Marriott City Center Net-Gov - workshop on leading edge Internet technologies for local governments, September 23, Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Oakland SMIP99 - the eleventh in a series of annual events designed to transfer recent research findings on strong-motion data practicing seismic design professionals and earth scientists, September 15, 1999, Park Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport 1998 Power Matters '98 - conference on electric and gas utility deregulation, November 4-5, Oakland Marriott City Center SMIP98 - Seminar on Utilization of Strong-Motion Data, September 15, Oakland Marriott City Center El Niño - Local Agency Responses to the Storms of 1998, June 9, MetroCenter, Oakland HAZMACON '98, March 30 - April 3, Santa Clara Convention Center 1997 State OES Tsunami Mitigation Workshop, May 28-29, Clarion Hotel, Millbrae El Niño - Bay Area Hazards and Opportunities, December 8, MetroCenter, Oakland HAZMACON '97, April 21-24, Santa Clara Convention Center 1996 Wireless Communications Workshop, May 30, 1996, Oakland Marriott City Center CIVNET '96 - Electronic Government, April 19, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose HAZMACON '96, April 23-25, Santa Clara Convention Center
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