Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Big Valley 2.0 – Experience It!

Change is everywhere—in our personal life, our professional life, everywhere you turn. Rather than reject change, shouldn’t we embrace it?

With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce Big Valley 2.0, to be held March 16 through 18 in Monterey, California. We’re calling it ‘2.0’ because it combines the best elements of previous Big Valley conferences with some new approaches to create an ‘upgraded’ conference experience for you.

Big Valley 2.0 will offer both a traditional conference track with speaker-led presentations, and a less-structured track for more interactive discussions. You’ll also experience the Welcome Reception and Exhibit Hall in an exciting new way (more on that in a future entry).

To encourage a better return on your attendance, all participants will be provided before the conference with tools to encourage a more meaningful conference experience before the conference. The final session of the conference will provide you with a plan to apply what you learned when you return to your credit union.

The goal is to provide an educational conference with more choices that better reflects the way we learn in today’s interactive culture. In that spirit, we encourage you to share your opinions about how the League can create an improved Big Valley conference that surpasses your past experiences.

Please tell us: what are your credit union’s biggest struggles right now, and what do you hope to learn at Big Valley to help you with them? Post your answers below by clicking on the "Comments" link, and keep visiting this blog to find out more about the exciting changes of Big Valley 2.0!