Board Blog: CBI Minneapolis engages, energizes, encourages

Enlightening, engaging, informative, unbelievable, a great experience, encouraging, energizing.

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Warren Kozireski, CBI Immediate Past President

These are just a few of the superlatives I heard in conversations with attendees at the 2015 National Student Electronic Media Convention this week in Minneapolis.

It’s amazing what you can jam into two-and-a-half days: professional speakers such as Jana Shortal, Kim Insley and Cory Hepola from KARE-TV, Cory Provus PBP voice of the Minnesota Twins, Paul Allen PBP voice of the Minnesota Vikings, producer Falen Lambert of KDWB and dozens more with an average of six sessions every hour—over 100 in all!

The NPR Next Generation project headed up by Doug Mitchell and a team of local professional mentors, keynote speaker Clinton Forry, the 14th annual National Student Production Awards MCed by WCCO reporter Reg Chapman, a Social Swag Swap attended by several hundred attendees and our annual Student Cybercast. Not to mention an Exhibit Floor packed with the latest in equipment and software.

I’ll add my own adjective—amazing.

But the conversation continues on the CBI listservs and blog, the CBI Facebook and Twitter pages and through the great networking the student attendees did which will allow the ideas and assistance to happen year-round.

Congratulations to all of the student award winners, finalists, Exhibitor Bingo prize winners and those who attended this great conference.

CBI Philadelphia will be Oct. 20-22, 2016 at the Sonesta. I’m not sure it can get any better than this one, but we’re going to try.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]