Welcoming Reception Avalon, Battery and Court Garden
Not just any Welcoming Reception. A Newfoundland
welcome where mainlanders will discover “Cod Tongues ” and “Screech”and
a “Newfound”smile that cannot be contained!
7:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Opening Remarks
• Tim
Grew, TIAC Chairman
• • Dennis O’Keefe, St John’s Mayor
• Chris Ishkanian, TIAC President
7:30 pm – 12:00 am
Dinner and Entertainment Fort William Ballroom A and B
Typical Newfoundland music!
You'd think you were in IRELAND. Prepare to be delightfully
entertained and we recommend that you bring your dancing
shoes for a jig or two!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Breakfast Buffet Fort William Ballroom A and B
8:30 am – 1:00 pm
Registration Desk Open Main Lobby
8:30 am – 8:45 am
Review of Conference Agenda Fort William Ballroom A and B
Can’t decide what to do during the Conference?
Hear first hand about all the Conference activities that will
help you make a choice.
8:45 am – 9:30 am
Opening Address Fort William Ballroom A and B
Opportunities Today, Opportunities
Tomorrow
The Honorable Shawn Skinner , Minister of Innovation,Trade
and Rural Development will provide delegates with an interactive
overview of Newfoundland and Labrador's bright future economic
outlook.
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Presentation Fort William Ballroom A and B
Family Business Succession Planning
Grant Walsh, Director, KPMG, Centre
for Family Business
Grant Walsh, a Canadian authority on Family
Succession Planning focuses on how to actively integrate
the family into the succession process and maintain a sense
of sanity during the process!
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Networking Refreshment Break
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
“Discover Newfoundland” Tours Due to the seating capacity of the two venues, both
tours will be available on the 15th and 16th of August.
Please pre-book your preferred date with this registration.
Gatherall's Puffin & Whale Watch
(max 100)
This excursion takes you first to Cape Spear where you will experience the raw
beauty of North America’s most easterly point. We will then head to Bay
Bulls where you will have lunch at Gatherall’s harbour side restaurant.
Afterwards in the comfort of their “State of the Art” Catamaran, “LandLubbers” will
see Porpoises , Whales and those funny looking things called PUFFINS….lots
of fun! Not to be missed! www.Gatheralls.com
Tour North America’s Oldest Settlement
Want to see St. John’s and the key points of interest?
Have lunch at the World Class “Rooms Museum”.
Visit Signal Hill where Marconi made the first ever transatlantic radio signals.
Visit the JOHNSON GEO SCIENCE CENTER that includes an exhibition about THE TITANIC. www.geocentre.ca
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Presentation Fort William Ballroom A and B
Hard Hat Productivity Norb
Slowikowski, Slowikowski & Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Hard
Hat Productivity will provide participants with the following
key information:
• How to implement the nine critical
factors for improved productivity;
• How to identify and filter out
the roadblocks to productivity improvement;
• How to optimize, measure, track
and reward performance;
• How to make teamwork come alive
in your company.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch Lunch on your own
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Sectional Meetings
• Contractors – Garrison Room
• Distributors – Battery Room
• Manufacturers – Salon D
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Can Am Meeting Signal Room
6:00 pm – 12:00 am
George Street Insulfest
This off site evening will keep you on your toes!
We have taken over St. John’s largest Club (Club One).
Come and join the fun and share an evening full of surprises. We
will be bused to the reception, followed by dinner and a full evening
of interactive “hypnotic” comedy including
Newfoundland’s hilarious Amy House.
And what type of party would it be without dancing to the music
of BIC
AND THE BALLPOINTS, the George Street band!
You don’t want to miss out on this evening – it
will be the talk of the hallway in the morning!
(Note: Local authorities have permitted CLUB ONE to allow persons under
the age of 19 into this establishment for the
dinner and entertainment segment up until approximately 10:00 pm.)
Sunday, August 16, 2009
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast Fort William Ballroom A and B
9:00 am – 9:30 am
National
Insulation Association Presentation, Larry
Nelles, NIA President
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Mechanical Insulation Marketing
Initiative
Ron King
10:30 am – 5:00 pm
“Discover Newfoundland” Tours Due to the seating capacity of the two venues, both tours
will be available on the 15th and 16th of August.
Please pre-book your preferred date with this registration.
Gatherall's Puffin & Whale Watch
(max 100)
This excursion takes you first to Cape Spear where you will experience the
raw beauty of North America’s most easterly point. We will then head
to Bay Bulls where you will have lunch at Gatherall’s harbour side restaurant.
Afterwards in the comfort of their “State of the Art” Catamaran, “LandLubbers” will
see Porpoises , Whales and those funny looking things called PUFFINS….lots
of fun! Not to be missed! www.Gatheralls.com
Tour North America’s Oldest Settlement
Want to see St. John’s and the key points of interest?
Have lunch at the World Class “Rooms Museum”.
Visit Signal Hill where Marconi made the first ever transatlantic radio signals.
Visit the JOHNSON GEO SCIENCE CENTER that includes an exhibition
about THE TITANIC. www.geocentre.ca
10:30 am – 6:30 pm
Golf Tournament
Join us for an incredible day of golf at Premier Danny
Williams original Championship course “The Wilds”. Buses depart
at 10:30 am for a 12:15 pm shotgun start. Lunch will be provided and you'll
be back by 6:00 pm.
Presidents’ and
Managers’ Meeting Fort William Ballroom C and D
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Annual General Meeting Fort William Ballroom A and B
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Luncheon Pre-Function
A and B
Be the first to hear about the TIAC Conference
2010!
Open Afternoon for Delegates
1:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Incoming Board Meeting Signal
Room
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Manufacturers’ and
Distributors’ Reception Avalon
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
President’s Dinner Fort William Ballroom A and B
8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Fun! Fun! Fun!
To finish off what we hope will be the most fun you have had
in years, we have a great evening planned with St. John's
comedian Glen Downey and the city's perennial top band “Billy
And The Bruisers”.
