NDA Update: Your Pre-Guide to Demolition Austin
Published: 9/12, 2019
The National Demolition Association’s annual convention and expo, is just around the corner. On Feb. 22-25, 2020, in the Austin Convention Center, Demolition Austin is taking demolition to the next generation.
The convention schedule is packed with education sessions, Fast and Furious presentations, networking, and fun, including a local brews beer reception and an evening party complete with chicken bingo. There’s no way you want to miss chicken bingo.
As always, the event is capped off with the annual NDA Awards Banquet, where attendees can celebrate the success of our industry and help us recognize current and future leaders in the field. Trailblazers and rising professionals in the demolition industry will be recognized through the presentation of the NDA Lifetime Achievement Award, Excellence in Demolition Awards, Scholarship Awards, Hall of Fame Awards, and the new Mike Casbon Safety Award.
Register by Jan. 10 for savings. For details, visit www.demolitionassociation.com/convention.
Live DEMOlition Event
At Demolition Rockies in March 2019, over 650 people attended the Live DEMOlition event. In Austin, the Live DEMOlition event is back, sponsored by Liebherr. You’ll be able to test and operate demolition equipment and get a true understanding of each product’s capabilities. Use this full-day event to ask questions, make purchases and connect with your suppliers on the latest equipment advancements. There will be hands-on demonstrations of demolition equipment, excavators, concrete saws, cutting tools, drones, and robotics equipment.
Keynote Spotlight
Seth Mattison is a workforce strategist and management trendspotter, as well as an internationally renowned expert, author, and futurist. As founder and chief movement officer of Luminate Labs, Mattison advises many of the world’s leading brand and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership and the future of work. His ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. He was recently named to the editors’ picks for favorite speakers of the year by MeetingsNet.
Over the past decade, Mattison has shared his insight with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the world’s best brands, including MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, IBM, The Dallas Cowboys, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, E&Y, Caterpillar, and The Walt Disney Company.