“The future depends on what you do today."   — Mahatma Gandhi

 
It is almost time again to head to the Land of Enchantment and the Inn of the Mountain Gods for this year’s TSTCI Future’s Retreat. While we are still fine-tuning the program, we already have several of our speakers confirmed and all of them anxious to share their view of our tomorrows.
So mark your calendar, register, sponsor and look forward to August 8-9, 2018 — we’ll see you at the Inn. 

 
Our Future’s Retreat is always an opportunity for insight into the movement of our industry and the fine-tuning needed to participate, manage and grow in the communications and people interaction business of our tomorrows.  

All of our sessions are always intended to help our members traverse the ever-changing business climate. Whether it be adapting to technology change, employment procedures and rules change, financial issues or events that impact our businesses and our personal finance or political waves that can bring a wave or a tsunami we want help our members stay ahead of the curve.  

The 2018 TSTCI Futures Retreat will begin Wednesday morning, August 8th at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, Mescalero, New Mexico and conclude Thursday, August 9th at noon. The sessions begin Wednesday morning with a breakfast buffet at 7:00 am and the Opening General Session at 8:00 am. This year we bring the focus close to current decisions and current impacts we are seeing and/or bracing for now. Phil Van Hooser returns as our Opening Keynote Speaker Wednesday morning bringing “Motivating Managers, Millennials, and Misfits.”  After this interaction, we’ll switch gears and head forward to the future with an invited technology futurist. Before we break for lunch, Phil Van Hooser returns with “Professional Decision Making with a Personal Touch.” 

We are again/still working on a presentation from US Homeland Security for an after lunch spot. We anticipate if we can make this work that it will be from 1:30 - 2:30 right after lunch. We will update as those details become available. We will end the business portion of the day in time to give you some personal time before the Celebration Reception 5:30 - 7:00 pm.  

On Thursday, we’ll begin again with a 7:00 am breakfast buffet and two morning speakers before ending around 11:45 am.  Our first speaker Thursday morning will address the ever-present and ever-intriguing “Cyber Security” presented by a newcomer to our function, Jon Brown-Vantage Point Solutions. Jon comes highly recommended by Carmen! 

Our Closing General Session speaker is always a draw and a welcome returned presenter, Edmund J. Seifried, Ph.D.  Dr. Seifried will address the economy question of today — “The Trump Economy: Will the High Performance Continue?”  

While we are still finalizing some of our speakers, we wanted to get this preliminary agenda outline out to you so that you can go ahead with your registration and hotel reservations.  

Hotel Information

We will be at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, Mescalero, NM. For your convenience, we have contact information for the hotel on the TSTCI Conference registration on the website. If calling the hotel direct 800-545-9011, please make sure they know you are with the TSTCI group so they include you in our room group. Room rates are $130.00 with a Daily Resort Fee of $13.00 which includes such items as valet parking, in-room coffee/tea, 2 bottles of water, newspaper, access to fitness area.  Be sure to make your reservations by the JULY 16, 2018 cut-off dateAfter that date, rooms will be on a space-available basis at the regular hotel rate. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m.; check-out time is noon.

Early Registration!

General or Early Registration runs from now through JULY 16 at the normal registration fee. After July 16, the “late registration fee” will apply. Now it really does pay to register early

Online registration and conference information can be found at www.tstci.org. Click on “TSTCI Conferences” and follow the link to online registration. We hope you will plan to join us for another great Futures Retreat in New Mexico. If you have questions or need any assistance, please contact Weldon R. Gray, CEO-TSTCI at 903-658-0055 or [email protected], Kari at the TSTCI office at 512-343-2587 or [email protected]or Pat Holder, Event Planner at 512-349-7470 or [email protected]

Look forward to seeing you in August! 

 

Sponsorship

Sponsorships help support the meeting activities and also provide additional exposure for you and your company.        

Our traditional Sponsorship levels include:  Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In addition to the above sponsor levels, you may also contribute to the TSTCI Board Discretionary Fund. Sponsor benefits include being listed in the weekly newsletter, This Week in TSTCI and in the on-site program for the meeting and on the signage at the event, a ribbon indicating you are a “Sponsor” on your name badge to further identify your support to the attendees, and verbal recognition throughout the meeting. You may include your Sponsorship preference on the on-line registration form. We appreciate all of our sponsors who help us provide the quality meetings and we appreciate the support of the TSTCI Futures Retreat.

Transportation Information

There are several airports that are within a short drive of The Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, New Mexico including:  Roswell, NM (1.5 hours); El Paso, TX (2.25 hours); and Albuquerque, NM (3 hours). All three of these airports have car rental agencies.