Final Thoughts

We are 10 days away from the start of our Steel Summit Conference in Atlanta. This will be our 6th conference and it will be the best attended conference by a wide margin. When we began the planning process my most optimistic goal was to get 400 attendees. We had 280 attendees at our 5th Steel Summit Conference. As of this evening we have 403 people registered to attend the conference. Thank you all.

Over the past few days I have been taking time to speak with each of our speakers/panelists to make sure we are all on the same page, answer any questions they might have and encourage them to stay for the entire conference if possible. Many of the speakers will be there and available to network with our attendees. One of the speakers told me the reason why they like our conference is because it is one where the “decision makers” are there and not just the top executives. We do have a strong contingent of heads of purchasing at our conferences (probably 50 percent of the attendees) as well as corporate presidents/CEO’s/owners and aales managers and staff sales and purchasing people.