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POMA Business Conference
POMA's annual business conferences offer attendees a wide range of benefits and money-making opportunities.
They include:
- High-level business-building tracks focused on increasing business and new media
- Bring-your-own-laptop (BYOLT), hands-on computer sessions
- Product testing venues: Product Showcase (includes tackle testing) and Shooting/Field Day
- Networking gatherings where media and industry come together to share ideas, develop content and build business
- College student mentoring
- Pre- and post-conference excursions, and
- Much more
POMA's 5th Annual Business Conference is slated for Aug. 11 - 14, 2010, in LaPorte County, In, on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
2010 Event Highlights
Wed., Aug. 11
- Keynoter Address, Paul Gillian
- Registration, 3 - 6 p.m.
- Welcome Event & Beach Bonfire, hosted by the LaPorte County Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Michigan City Beachwalk Park, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 12
- Business Tracks, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Product Showcase at Pine Lake Kiwanis Park, 4:30 - 7:30
- Dinner at the Lake, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 13
- Business Tracks, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Gala Dinner, POMA/Mossy Oak Pinnacle Awards, Silent & Live Auctions, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 14
- Shooting & Field Day, Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area Shooting Range and Recreation Area, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- BYOLT Hands-On Learning Sessions, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
- Adios Dinner, Entertainment & Open Microphone Sing Along






