Meeting News - September 20, 2110

Dateline: Cincinnati
attendees didn’t have to fumble with jackets.
Everything was walkable and convenient. It
also had the accessibility and the affordability
in a down economy.”
It was the first time AEM staged the trade
show in the Midwest, in a colder clime, but
Magestro said the show’s management com-
mittee selected Cincinnati several years ago
for 2010 because it wanted a more central
and driveable location. The result was the
best-attended World of Asphalt ever, she said,
setting records for education session tickets
and exhibit space sold. “Being in this part of
the country allowed more contractors and
producers from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana
to drive in and attend,” she said.
Tammy Seldon, director of conferences and
membership for Lake Anna, Va.-based Giant
Screen Cinema Association, a trade group
of IMAX theater operators, filmmakers and
industry suppliers, planned a day event in
Cincinnati as a part of the annual GSCA
International Conference and Trade Show
held in Indianapolis last September. The as-
sociation held Dome Day at the Cincinnati
Museum Center at Union Terminal to show-
case that venue’s dome-shaped IMAX theater
to a group of 150 IMAX industry mem-
bers. While Seldon and GSCA’s selection
of Cincinnati and the museum was for an
industry-related reason, she praised the des-
tination and the historic former train station
as an off-site venue. “It’s gorgeous, and our
members were thrilled to visit it,” she said.

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