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SMU Steel Summit - Important Notes
Written by John Packard
July 10, 2019
The 2019 SMU Steel Summit Conference will be held at the Georgia International Convention Center (www.GICC.com) on Aug. 26-28, 2019. Here are some important items you need to know before booking, after booking and before you get to the conference.
SMU Steel Summit Conference – Status of Hotel Room Blocks
- Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway (host hotel) – Totally sold out
- Atlanta Airport SpringHill Suites Gateway (across from GICC) – Room block sold out, hotel is sold out on Aug. 27.
- Renaissance Atlanta Airport Gateway – Hotel is sold out
- Atlanta Airport Marriott (located one exit south of venue, SMU to provide shuttle bus) – 45 rooms available on Aug. 26, 40 for Aug 27 and 4 for Aug. 28.
- We are looking at adding rooms either from the Westin (which is located across the street from the Atlanta Airport Marriott, the one that has rooms left and the shuttle). There is also an option of a close-by Holiday Inn.
- We will make the decision to add more rooms once the Marriott has been totally booked.
SMU Steel Summit Conference – Registrations Still Exceeding Expectations
- We are moving toward 850 executives registered for the conference. We put out a list of companies in Tuesday’s issue (it is also posted on our blog on the front of our website and in the events section). We continue to be optimistic that we will reach 1,000 attendees, making us the largest steel conference of its kind in North America (by far, almost double the closest contender).
- Here are some of the companies that registered after the list was compiled on July 9: Heidtman Steel, Plateplus, Inc., Lennox, Traulsen, Signode Packaging Systems, ArcelorMittal, Borcelik (Turkey), Steel Dynamics (more executives added), Nucor (more executives added), Norfolk Iron & Metal, High Steel Service Center and United Steel Global Trading Corp.
- Here is the link to go directly into the registration system: https://www.eventsforce.net/cru/305/register
- You can also find information and links on our website: www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/Events/Steel-Summit
SMU Steel Summit Conference – Release date for the SMU App – July 19
- The Steel Market Update Events App will be “live” for the 2019 SMU Steel Summit Conference by July 19
- The App will be available for sponsors and exhibitors on Monday, July 15 (this will give them time to tweak their content)
- App contains every individual registered for the conference
- App contains real-time survey, which will be used during the conference
- App contains survey questions to be answered prior to the conference
- App contains ability to communicate with other attendees
- App has the agenda and speaker biographies
- App will also have speakers’ PowerPoint slides (not available prior to them speaking)
- App also contains social media links so you can post to your social media about the conference directly from the App.
- You can download the free App from your phone’s App store (Steel Market Update Events is the official name of the App).
- If you have downloaded it from a previous year the App is still good, you will just need to log into the App.
- Once the App is “live” those registered for the conference will get an email with instructions on how to download the App, how to use the App, reset your password if you can’t remember from prior years, etc.
- App only works for registered attendees. No other list of attendees will be provided.
SMU Steel Summit Conference – Reminder – Arrive Early and Stay to the End
- Registration will begin early on Monday, Aug. 26 at the Georgia International Convention Center south lobby (closest to Marriott Gateway Hotel).
- The pre-Summit program this year will be a Managing Price Risk Workshop hosted by the CME Group. It will begin at 10:30 AM ET on Monday, Aug. 26, in the Marriott Gateway Hotel located right next to the Georgia International Convention Center.
- Conference begins at 1 PM on Monday at the Georgia International Convention Center
- Conference ends with a BANG on Wednesday as we welcome Ari Fleisher, former Press Secretary under President Bush, to speak. Then we will have a program on banking/capital looking at 2020 (how difficult will it be for M&A, borrowing against inventory, etc.).
- Conference is scheduled to end at 2:30 PM ET on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
- From the convention center to the airport is 10 minutes using the free SkyTrain, which runs between the Marriott and the GICC.
John Packard
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