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ASCDI will be holding our Fall Membership Meeting on October 23rd followed by a dinner/reception and optional Beatles Love Show for the ASCDI Charity Foundation. 

 Agenda 

1:00 AscdiNatd Business Meeting- (Financials, Elections, Ethics, New Members and 2019 Initiatives) 

1:45 Legislative advocacy- Andrew Shore, JSTPC

2:00 Counterfeit-Current issues in the counterfeit world-- Neil Vill, World Data

2:15 Keynote: Making Sense of the Trump Trade Agenda, Jim Jochum, former Assistant US Secretary of Commerce for the Import and Export Administration, will discuss the current trade agenda, including the trade "war" with China, the impact on business and what to expect over the course of the next two years. 

 

2:45 Make Tariffs Less Tariffying!

Anu Gavini, former President and COO of Sandler Travis Trade Advisory Services, which was recently acquired by UPS, will be joined by three AscdiNatd member-company Executives for a practical discussion of Best Practices in the face of an uncertain and confusing tariff environment.  Hear how some of your peers are facing this challenge and identify the pitfalls and opportunities for your business!  Have you reviewed your tariff codes?  What can your shipping company do to help?  Can you request an exclusion?  What steps are the manufacturers taking?  What about used equipment?  Can you drop-ship to avoid tariffs?  What products are affected?  Don’t miss this informative session!

3:45 StorONE- A new business opportunity for resellers and service providers in the "storage world"

 Do you resell server or storage technology and want a simple software enhancement that can dramatically increase the value of your solution to your customers and accelerate profits for you?  Then you can't afford to miss this presentation and Q&A session from StorONE.  

4:15 "Rapid Fire" presentations by industry leaders on cloud services- Voice and data service decisions

• Hosted Voice and white label Solutions--Jim Goebel, Sotel
• Outsourced voice and on premise solutions--Ian Barrows, Paragon
• Finding the Right Cloud Partners--Ron Reed, Shoc Networks

5:15 Closing Comments

6:00 Cocktails and Dinner in Griffith I

9:30 p.m.- ASCDI Charity Fundraiser: Cirque du Soleil's The Beatles' Love show (Optional event.) Tickets are still availalble. You can order tickets for the show as part of our group block when you click on Register Now below. 

Proceeds from ticket sales go to the ASCDI Charity Foundation.  If you cannot make it, please still consider giving to the foundation. 

Register Now!

$300 for Members

$600 for Non-Members

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