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Everything you need to
expand your business, broaden your networking contacts, and elevate your
professional knowledge is here under one roof. This is your opportunity
to network with nearly 1200 industry leaders like yourself –
manufacturers, developers, community owners and managers, finance
companies, retailers and suppliers – who make a positive difference in
the modular and manufactured housing industries.
With its expanded educational programming and tailored general sessions,
the Congress offers many unique opportunities for all levels of industry
knowledge and factory-built experience.
2009 Educational
Highlights- 2009 National Communities Council Forum (Preconference
Program)
2009 Factory Built
Housing Developers Symposium (Preconference Program)
Over a dozen
education sessions for manufacturers, developers, builders,
retailers, lenders, and community owners and managers
2009 Exhibit Floor and Speaker Highlights
- Exciting and motivational general sessions with well known and
respected business leaders and personalities
- Approximately 130 exhibits on show floor
- Exhibit Floor Stage featuring product demonstrations
- Complimentary Poker & Blackjack Lessons
- Complimentary Massage Therapy, Shoe-Shine, Internet Café.
Without a doubt, participation in the Congress & Expo provides the critical tools you need to be competitive and profitable in today’s housing market.
Keynote Speakers
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On tap for 2009 are three
exciting general session speakers. The Wednesday opening
general session Keynote will be delivered by Jerry Rouleau,
a well known industry speaker, author and consultant that
specializes in public relations, marketing and sales
training for builders, retailers and building product
suppliers. Home projects that he has been involved in have
been featured on the
Today
Show, in
People
Magazine,
USA
Today,
Country
Living,
House
Beautiful,
Country
Home and
Home
Magazine generating millions of dollars in
publicity for clients.
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Jerry is the founder and co-host of a popular weekly radio program on BuilderRadio.com. In addition, he is the author of two books,
The Complete Guide to Selling New Homes for Million-Dollar Producers and Selling New Homes the Easy Way. Rouleau’s address to the Congress and Expo audience will provide ideas that manufacturers, retailers, lenders, suppliers and land-lease community owners can use immediately to improve their business and will focus on sales and marketing ideas that can make a difference in today’s changing housing market. |
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Thursday’s general session,
sponsored by Whirlpool Corporation, will focus on the
green building movement and will feature two well known experts
on green building and energy efficient technologies for housing
– Mark LaLiberte and Ron Jones.
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Mark LaLiberte is a
distinguished author, trainer and consultant who has devoted two
decades to educating the home building industry about the
benefits of constructing durable, energy efficient and healthier
homes. He served as an advisor to EPA’s EnergyStar Program and
has been a featured speaker at events such as the NAHB
International Builders Show, West Coast Green, Energy Star
Summit and GreenBuild conferences. Through his company Building
Knowledge Inc., his focus is to help the building industry learn
to build better homesand better businesses. |
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Mark strives to
help his clients increase the performance of the homes that they
build and translate those changes into business success.
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Ron Jones is an internationally
renowned builder, architectural designer and pioneer in the
green building movement. He has served on the boards of
directors for both the U.S. Green Building Council and the
National Association of Homebuilders and is founder of GREEN
BUILDER®, co-founder of Green Builder Media LLC and editorial
director of Green Builder Magazine. He has been a
dedicated ambassador for green building serving organizations
and agencies such as the American Solar |
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Energy Society, Sustainable
Buildings Industry Council, National Arbor Day Foundation,
National Recycling Association, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Though numerous building
projects, Ron and his team have led the home building market
through innovations in energy efficiency, water stewardship,
construction waste reduction and recycling, indoor environment
quality and creative land use. |
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