This year's IRgA Workshop will help reprographics professionals profit from two key markets: ADA signage and government agencies. The workshop, scheduled for September 18-19 in Arlington, Virginia, will provide actionable information from people on the front lines of these markets.
Of course, there’s more to the event than education. We’ll start on September 18 by visiting two IRgA member shops, Blueboy Imaging in Washington DC and RPG in Arlington. Then we’ll have cocktails and dinner, a great opportunity to chat with old friends and meet new ones. (Click here to read more details about Day One.)
The morning of September 19 will start with a presentation on tapping the ADA signage market, which reprographics shops are perfectly positioned to dominate. The afternoon will be dedicated to succeeding another major market: government agencies. Municipalities, schools, libraries and many other agencies have budgets for managing their document needs, and this presentation, led by ReproConnect’s Joseph Szobody, will show us how to do that. See below for a complete schedule.
Registration for the event is $100 for IRgA members if you register before August 30 (it jumps to $150 after that), and $200 for non-members ($250 after August 30). The fee includes the dinner and drinks on September 18 and breakfast and lunch on September 19. Rooms at Le Meridien Hotel (this is a Marriott Hotel, so you can get Bonvoy points) are $199 plus taxes. Click here to register for the workshop....and click here to reserve your hotel room.
Agenda
Thursday, September 18
1 p.m. Shop Visit: Blue Boy Imaging, 214 L St. NE, Washington, DC (Meet at the Le Meridien Hotel, 1121 19th St. N., Arlington, VA, around 12:15 for ride to Blue Boy)
3 p.m. Shop Visit: RPG, 1100 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA
Return to Hotel
7 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner: Barley Mac, 1600 Wilson Blvd, Arlington
Friday, September 19
All events on Friday are at Le Meridien Hotel in the Vivace Meeting Room
8 a.m. Group Breakfast Great opportunity to continue conversations started the night before or start new ones!
8:45 Welcome from Hiram Russell, IRgA President
9 a.m. Tapping the ADA Signage Market and Beyond Rich Gigl from National Azon will explain why the ADA signage market is so valuable for reprographics firms, and how they can tap it. He will also describe the technology that can help firms create the signage, and explain that this technology also can be used to create profitable engraved building signage beyond ADA signage. (Click here to read an interview with Rich about his presentation.)
11 a.m. Transforming Our World By Design - How HP is using AI to Revolutionize File Conversions. Jeff Wells, Solutions Architect, HP PageWide XL, will lead a session on HP AI Vectorization and how machine learning is reducing retracing time by up to 80% with the industry's first cloud-based AI vectorization tool. (Click here for details.)
11:30 Group Lunch
12:30 Tapping the Public Agency Market Joseph Szobody from ReproConnect will show attendees the deep potential of the public agency market, including providing bid management services and scanning/archiving legacy documents. He also will help attendees understand the key pain points that managers of public agency documents feel and how reprographics firms can respond with effective solutions. He will conclude with important updates about ReproConnect software, including news about a new workflow management tool. (Click here to read an interview with Joseph about his presentation.)
3 p.m. Good bye...or hang around and chat with friends!
Thank you to our sponsors who made this event possible: ReproConnect, National Azon and HP